Disappointed, but not disappointing.

Rating: 5/10 (25 March 2015)

Unfortunately, I had very high expectations for the film from all the praise I had heard for it. The movie is in no way a bad movie. The second half though, is incredibly weaker than the first half. I don't typically like to write a review with spoilers in it, but for this film I have to talk about the vampires.
The first half of the movie follows two felons (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) through various robberies and kidnappings. Tarantino plays a psychotic excellently. To me, his performance was the best part about this movie. SPOILER: When he died, I felt that the film got much weaker without his character.
I'm not someone who is bothered by over-the-top action or even ridiculousness (Donnie Darko) when well executed. BUT when a man in the Titty Twister (The name of the vampire's bar. Trust me it gets worse) reveals a machine gun charity belt that he was wearing, I knew the movie was about go downhill fast. Several times during the film, Clooney and company will be standing in a circle and the vampires will just wait to be attacked several times so don't expect to ever feel worried about a character dying that you care about (mainly because you are not given much reason to care about them anyway). The band of vampires continues to play songs while everyone is brawling, and somehow a green blade made Tarantino turn into a vampire.
The second half of this movie plays out like a sci-fi channel movie, and the first half plays out like a Tarantino film, with much thanks to Tarantino himself for that. The big picture is that the film is largely forgettable due to its change in tone for the second half. A big thanks to Quentin Tarantino for taking the great aspects of this movie, and making his movies continue that tone throughout the entire films instead of jump ship for gore and vampires.
The verdict is, From Dusk till Dawn is still a film worth watching, but if you haven't seen Tarantino's film yet, I would suggest watching all of them before this one. Overall, the film is average. There are some really good aspects, but unfortunately some really bad aspects as well that even the good ones out. 5/10