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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money(1999) Starring: Robert Patrick, Duane Whitaker, Bo Hopkins, Muse Watson, Brett Harrelson, Raymond Cruz, Danny Trejo, James Parks, Maria Checa, Tiffani Thiessen, Stacie Randall, and Bruce Campbell Directed By: Scott Spigel Review Hello Kiddies your pal the crypt-critic here, with a somewhat enjoyable sequel you might be able to sink your teeth into. I saw the original From Dusk till Dawn with George Clonney and thought it was a very fun ride. This sequel still maintains the fun of that film which is good but also a little stupid. A gang of bank-robbing misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar... and crosses the wrong vampire... the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood! The film feels like it's own thing, so it's not really required for me to watch the first film but I myself just like to watch a film series in order either way. It has a pretty cool cast in lead Robert Patrick, Danny Trejo and Bruce Campbell cameo. This is a sequel that brings in the goods especially at the climax but this vampire film did not quench my thirst. I'm giving From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money a three out of five.

This straight-to-video sequel to the surprise cinema hit of '96 is a lot better than I had heard and expected. Sure, it's just a rehash of the original film done on a much smaller scale (and lower budget, obviously), but what this film may lack in money and originality it more than makes up for in pacing and almost non-stop action. It's definitely a tongue-in-cheek cross between comedy and horror, a fact which some reviewers seem to have missed, and is pretty enjoyable on a dumb-but-fun scale.Director Scott Spiegel first cut his teeth by assisting with some of the EVIL DEADs back in the '80s, before making his debut with the incredibly gory slasher movie INTRUDER. Here, we find out that Spiegel hasn't progressed as a director (as has his pal Sam Raimi) in the twelve-odd years since then, as basically he uses exactly the same kind of comic-book style as in that movie. Spiegel's penchant is for bizarre camera angles, so we witness things occurring from behind moving fans, from the point of view of a man doing press-ups, from the mouth of a vampire, from the bottles of barrels and glasses, and lots more besides. Far from being annoying and over-the-top (well, maybe over-the-top) as some reviewers would have you think, these dodgy camera angles are the highlights of the film for me; at least they're somewhat original and make the film more fun and interesting to watch. You can just imagine Spiegel trying to work out where he can place the camera next...The contrived plot is tenuously linked to the original film by having a brief scene set in the bar (seemingly rebuilt after the slaughter that occurred there before), and also a cameo appearance from that vampire barman Danny Trejo, who sets the plot in motion. Don't be fooled into thinking that Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino had anything to do with this film, as they didn't; being executive producers, all they had to do was let Siegel use the rights of the film so that they could get a cut of the money. That's their achievement over with.The cast is familiar only to those who enjoy similar B-movies and straight-to-video releases. The noticeably ageing Robert Patrick is surprisingly pretty good as the lead, especially considering the slumming level of some of his performances in the past decade. Bo Hopkins plays the town sheriff, and could well be playing exactly the same character he did in MUTANT fifteen years previously; did someone mention typecasting? Also of interest are some brief cameos from Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Bruce Campbell, who star in a movie playing on television (!) at the very beginning of the film, and are bitten to death by a flying swarm of vampire bats.These bats lead me on to the special effects in this film. They are cheap, yes, but they're also enjoyable on a B-movie level. The bats themselves are purely CGI, and are pretty well done; not in the least bit realistic, but then they don't have to be for a comic-book film like this. The vampires look less like aliens this time around, more like actors with prosthetic appliances, contact lenses, and false teeth, and of course we don't get to see any fancy morphings either. Saying this, the vampire deaths - where they dissolve into skeletons - are suitably grotesque and gruesome, and highly reminiscent of the end of the first EVIL DEAD. The blood and violence level is relatively high but not disturbing, more splattery in the style of BRAINDEAD, with severed heads bouncing around and the like.After a fairly nondescript two-thirds, this film suddenly kicks into high-gear at the end with a showdown between the majority of the Mexican police force and the four vampire bank robbers, with Patrick caught in the middle. Here, seemingly endless amounts of bullets are fired, loads of vehicles explode, and people are slaughtered wholesale. Pretty damn impressive on the low budget this film has, and it almost comes close to a similar scene in TERMINATOR 2 on which it models itself. In fact, this finale is highly entertaining and packed with action, flying stuntmen and other cheesiness. While FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2: Texas BLOOD MONEY never rises above the level of a B-movie, it's undeniably enjoyable entertainment that contains a tongue-in-cheek approach sometimes lacking in movies today. Fans of EVIL DEAD II and similar efforts should have a field day. Yes, this is a bad film, but it's a damned good bad film that never becomes boring!

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) ** (out of 4) Sequel to the cult film has a group of bank robbers heading to Mexico for a big score but instead of cash they find a pack of vampires who want the money for their own reasons. I'll admit right up front that I watched the original movie the day it opened in theaters, loved it and I love it to this day. I had stayed away from this sequel because most direct-to-DVD (or video) products are just cheap knock-offs of the original movie. This sequel isn't as bad as I was expecting but there's still no question that there's not a single thing here that makes it stand out and there's also no doubt that nothing here can come close to the original. I really think this sequel was doomed from the time it got the green light because the lack of any real meant that everything that worked in the original would have to be toned down. The vampire make up here is fairly forgettable with none of them really standing out. The CGI vampire bats are all forgettable and the attack scenes won't leave you impressed. Another problem is that the screenplay tries to blend the crime melodrama with the horror and comedy and it just doesn't work this time. Nothing really blends well together and in the end you're just left feeling that the entire film is trying to remake the brilliance of the first and it just doesn't work. It was nice seeing Robert Patrick who was good in his part as was Bo Hopkins from American Graffiti fame. Danny Trejo has a brief but fun cameo. FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2 has a somewhat fun final ten minutes with several bodies melting in front of us but this type of fun was long overdue.

First movie was great and I loved it and this sequel is not connected to last movie, one of the vamps return to this movie, well for part of the movie as goes missing for rest of the movie. This movies does take a while to get started as there have a lot of filler scenes ,with some vamps scenes.The first few scenes with vampires look descent with make up effect as the movie goes on the vampires look less scary When the movie started get a little less boring, they make movie look messy, it just felt like the movie was all over the place and i did not were to go with and then gave up with rushed last 10 mins.The effect in this movie was not were near as good as the first, some were little descent but most of it was really bad,The acting was decent in the movie.Worth watching a least once 4 out of 10