From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

The special effects really do suck and the actors aren't first string, however fans of cheesy horror movies shouldn't be discouraged from checking this flick out. This is genuinely stylish with some ambitious camera work and some nice art direction touches. I think the director and the cinematographer might have been having a contest to see who could come up with the wierdest pov shot while they were shooting the picture. Also there are a few moments that are funny and border upon being clever. The porno film massacre scene had me chuckling when the donut guy got blown away. I also liked the opening Bruce Cambell(Hail to the King!) and Tiffany-Amber Thiessen elevator scene. The important thing with this movie is to forget about the first one. The first one was a kinetic, over the top, vamp slaughter-fest that was fun but hardly horror. This movie is not great, but still has the elements of a real low-budget horror movie aspiring to be something better.

It goes the genre-blending of the original one better: it melds the heist movie, the vampire movie, and the good-ole-boy movie. The co-writer Duane Whitaker, who has made a number of witty and flavorfully scripted independent movies, is probably responsible for the Texas atmosphere, and the idiosyncracy of the gang of redneck layabouts who make up the cast. Despite the stripped-down special effects, you might feel grateful to the movie for being the first B picture in eons to feature actual characters. Robert Patrick is superb as the hero--who, in the fashion of the first film, seems convincingly about to be revealed as a hotheaded sociopath, then veers in a very different direction. Muse Watson as the safecracker C.W. and Bo Svenson, now ripened in late middle aged, is marvellous as the skeptical sheriff--he could play doubles with L.Q. Jones. The movie isn't much, but it has actors, characters and dialogue--three things that are by now extinct on the direct-to-video shelf.

The sequel to the first film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) in which I am a huge fan. The first cult film is my favorite action vampire horror film. This sequel is an okay DTV movie bloody horror slasher film and I don't understand why this movie gets the hate for it but Part 3 The Hangman's Daughter get's better ratings. From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money is not near good as the first one, it is still a good horror movie in his own way, with excellent cast, diffrent story and a good FX effects, different ideas, it does have a good kills. It is underrated and unappreciated slaher horror sequel.

"Time to come with us, Buck, the bite ain't that bad. Bite my ass."

This film it self suffers from mayor problem issues it is not as good as the first one. It is a step down from the first movie. The problems with the film I have is: The film heavily borrows things from the first movie. This guy Luther Heggs (Duane Whitaker) stops by Titty Twister bar in Mexico open in which in the first movie finale it was burned down. So how was Titty Twister bar open so fast in short time. Danny Trejo is again as barman Razor Charlie and he acts the same as he did in the first movie. Razor Charlie was killed in the first movie so what does he doing in here. He brings a vampire and asks his fellow if that was the guy that shot him. That was all in the first movie. The dialogues could have been better. We could got at least good sexy girl in this movie but there was no good actress in here. The pacing in this movie is slow and the movie could have been better. Is this movie a sequel or prequel to the first movie or what. To me the plot is confusing, with plot holes and why vampires are robbing a bank and stealing the money. This movie has not any good soundtracks like the first movie had. Where did Danny Trejo disappeared what happened to him, it was not explaind. Those are main problems and isues I have with this film.

Here is what the movie works for me: you have an excellent cast Robert Patrick from Terminator 2: Judgment Day he played T-1000, from The X-Files he played FBI Special Agent John Doggett he was in other movies like Zero Tolerance, Decoy, Hong Kong '97 and other action movies. I like the guy, I am huge Robert Patrick fan. He did a terrific job in The X-Files in Season 8 I love that he is the lead guy in here and he is the hero. Robert did an excellent performence he is a likable guy and he is different from Seth Gecko. Buck Bowers is not a stone cold killer like was George Clooney, he is an ex convict and a bank robber but not a killer, he did not kill anyone so yes i like his character.

I love the first one to death, it is my favorite action film I like this one. The other actors are: Bo Hopkins as Texas Ranger Otis Lawson he did a fine job been the good guy I love his character. Kudos too Bo Hopkins. Muse Watson from Prison Break Season 1 and I Know What You Did Last Summer, he did a good job I like him. Raymond Cruz is a bad-ass as Jesus. The guy is really underrated actor he is in all kind of movies: Under Siege, Broken Arrow, The Rock and so on. I love the action sequence in which Jesus slashes a vampire woman's head off and he jums out of a window excellent stunt. Than we have Tiffani-Amber Thiessen from Beverly Hills 90210 and Bruce Campbell from The Evil Dead trilogy in here in a cameo opening scene. There is this guy I never heard of James Parks son of Michael Parks who playas Deputy Edgar McGraw son of Earl McGraw that Gecko brothers in the first movie shot his father dead in the first movie.

Good acting and direction by Scott Spiegel he did a good job directing this sequel from Dimension. Okay music theme from Joseph Stanley Williams but not better than Graeme Revell's music from the first film. You have some good kills, a nice action. 4 Vampiers are shooting with machine guns on SWAT Team and kills them all. You have explosins practical effects done for real. You have a wonderful finale in which a face-off between the survivors and the vampires takes place. Buck, Otis and Edgar confront 4 vampires and they fight for their survival in which it is a bad-ass. I love happy ending, wonderful finale. This is an okay stand alone action horror movie with a twist, not near good as the first movie that I love to death but okay. Quentin Tarantino was excutive producer of this movie would really like to see the TV series of the first movie.

I only caught the "edited" version on Sci-Fi Channel, but must admit that I found this to be a mildly entertaining film. It takes a basic ideas (vampires robbing a bank) and goes with it and runs.

The problem is that that's really all there is, and there's not much running track. Like the original, it tries to stay "reality" grounded as a caper flick, but given this is a shorter movie, this goes on _way_ too long before you actually get to vampires.

Once we get the first guy bit by a vampire, it moves along to "vampires rob a bank" and "vampires shoot it out with police." But...that's really about it. The writers seemed to have run out of ideas, and so we just get interminable variations on these two basic ideas. There is no real climax - the vampire bad guys are subsequently interchangeable, and the only really competent one (Jesus) gets killed before the formerly-dimwitted one. The ending is just one big shootout, prolonged by a convenient solar eclipse. Which is another pointless plot point - if you want vampires to be in the darkness, just keep them in darkness and have the sun come up normally. Adding the solar eclipse does nothing here. It's stuff like this which suggests the writers didn't know quite what they were doing.

As for the Raimi-esque POV shots, a little goes a long way - something that Scott Spiegel should have learned from the master. It's kinda fun the first twenty times, but after that...

Overall, I'd recommend it if you can catch it on the cheap. It's no classic, but it's mildly amusing.

This is much worse than I ever expected it to be. Scott Spiegel, whose work I have enjoyed up till recently, has penned such flicks as Clint Eastwood's THE ROOKIE, and Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD II: DEAD BY DAWN. He is also the man responsible for giving Quentin Tarantino (my idol) his start in the business. Unfortunately, he cannot cut it in the director's chair.

The effects, especially the incredibly noticeable fake bats, are ludicrous. The cinematography, which I suppose was considered creative or perhaps experimental when the film was being shot, was abominable (POV shots do not work with someone who is doing pushups, or even household appliances, i.e. a rotating window fan, no matter what people tell you). The artistic shots of the film (a cattle skull with snake/spider crawling over it) are disappointing, and I suppose trying to immitate those of Tobe Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (recurring shots of a full moon).

Moreover, the advertisements for a "teaser-role" for cult horror icon Bruce Campbell, were little more than completely false. When I heard this, I figured that Spiegel would be giving B.C. a significant cameo, after they worked together on EVIL DEAD 2. Of course, this is not true. Bruce Campbell does little more than simply walk into frame, say a few words (very few) and die. There has not been a greater example of false advertising since Bruce Lee was billed as starring in the absolute fake GAME OF DEATH.

The plot, if any, is an extremely weak one. The only good work by any actor is that of Robert Patrick, who as usual, never ceases to impress.

Overall, the film was a disgrace to the name of the original. I do not mean to put down Scott Spiegel's previous works at all, nor do I mean to insult his ability to write a good screenplay. This film unfortunately does just not live up to his potential, and definitely does not exhibit his flair for screenwriting.