A film of 2 halves - neither very good

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2001)

Clooney and Tarantino are brothers on the run from the law. When they spend the evening in a truckers strip club they find more thrills than they had expected. This film was trading on several things - the success of Tarantino, Clooney's star power and the hot property of Rodriguez after Desperado. Unfortunately these are the main things the film has going for it.
The first half of the film is quite good and plays like a Tarantino-esque crime thriller, until they reach the club where it turns into a gory vampire b-movie. The special effects are good but messy but it replaces tension and thrills with gore and makes the second half of the film a messy fight rather than a tension standoff. The crime section is good because Keitel, Clooney and Lewis are good in their roles - Clooney deserves special mention as he plays a tough cruel killer, well against type and is the epitome of tattooed cool. Tarantino however can't act, he's a good director and should do more of that rather than turning in performances like this.
The film is a messy action movie, it lacks structure, tension or any emotional core - whenever the actors get turned to vampires you don't really care. It replaces all these with gore and special effects. It's worth watching to see Clooney playing against type but outside of that there isn't much else here to justify watching.