Brilliant, horrific and funny (Spoilers in this review)

Rating: 9/10 (29 April 2003)

I don't normally like writing reviews with spoilers, but this time I can't help it, and if you are planning to watch this film PLEASE don't read any further, this is so crucial it really will ruin the most amazing surprise! However, I see that the tagline for the movie is Vampires, No Interviews. Still, the film starts of conventionally enough, with Clooney and Tarantino in one of his few decent acting roles as brothers on the run from the law. They kidnap Harvey Keital and family, before driving to this Mexican Bar. You start to wonder where this is going, and then all of a sudden - Vampires Appear!! Why!! I mean this is crazy! Where did that come from, it is as if they got together and said, OK, I've got a fairly decent Tarantinoesque crime thriller, lots of violence, Clooney would be great for the role of the sane brother, but I don't have an Act II. Then someone says - I know - lets have Vampires appear led by a sexy sadistic Salma Hayek, and the kidnappers and kidnapped will set aside their differences to fight their undead enemies, and I know, have Juliette Lewis fall in love with George Clooney at the end. I would sincerely love to come into this film completely ignorant again just to watch the moment when they all turn into Vampires, but then again I would also like to go back in time and never go to see Star Wars Episode Franchise I, but we can't have everything can we?!