Well, at least it started out well.

Rating: 2/10 (10 September 2004)

I saw this movie about two weeks ago with a friend and new very little to nothing about it when I began watching. I vaguely remembered something about vampires being in the movie, but as the film began, I thought my memory must've been wrong, because this was a movie about two bankrobbers/murderers named the Gecko brothers, Clooney (Excellent as an anti-hero character) and Tarantino (not as excellent).
The first half hour is quite good, thanks to Tarantino's great script and solid acting by Clooney and his hostage Keitel, a preacher with two children who has lost his faith due to the death of his wife. After they cross the border into Mexico to avoid the police and FBI, they go to a not so family-friendly bar to meet their accomplice in the robberies.
Then the entire movie falls apart.
It turns out that all of the people that work in the bar are secretly vampires, and an ultra-gory biting and stabbing scene follows, complete with decapitating and removing beating hearts.
Now don't get me wrong, there are some well choreographed vampire fight scenes in this movie that can be attributed to director Rodriguez, but the transition between the Gecko Brothers escaping to the vampire hunting is so choppy that it feels like two completely different movies just crammed together.
After the movie was over, my friend and I both agreed it was one of the dumbest movies we had ever seen and were both severely disappointed. How could Tarantino, the genius behind such works as Pulp Fiction, be behind this disaster? I'm still wondering.