Product Description

It's nonstop thrills when George Clooney (THE PERFECT STORM, THREE KINGS) and Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION) star as the Gecko brothers -- two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree! After kidnapping a father (Harvey Keitel -- U-571) and his two kids (including Juliette Lewis -- NATURAL BORN KILLERS), the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1454 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-10-03
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 108 minutes

Amazon.com
From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a money drop, but they don't realize that they've just entered the nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle aplomb, Rodriguez and Tarantino shift into high gear with a nonstop parade of gore, gunfire, and pointy-fanged mayhem featuring Salma Hayek as a snake-charming dancer whose bite is much worse than her bark. If you're a fan of Tarantino's lyrical dialogue and pop-cultural wit, you'll have fun with the road-movie half of this supernatural horror-comedy, but if your taste runs more to exploding heads and eyeballs, sloppy entrails and morphing monsters, the second half provides a connoisseur's feast of gross-out excess. Bon appétit! --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
In this picture, the sensibilities of the screenwriter, Quentin Tarantino, and the director, Robert Rodriguez ("El Mariachi," "Desperado"), don't so much mesh as simply take turns: the first half feels like Tarantino's movie, the second half like Rodriguez's. The film begins as a rather self-conscious modern Western in which bad guys (George Clooney and Tarantino) streak toward Mexico; as in "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction," the crooks have a tendency to babble inanely while threatening defenseless people with grievous bodily harm. For once, though, the logorrheic apprehension that Tarantino likes to build up actually has some sort of payoff: south of the border, the gunmen and their hostages are beset by hordes of vampires, and Rodriguez's berserk action style-weird weaponry, non-stop stunts, and samurai-speed editing-takes over. The movie's horror-comics second half is cheesy, derivative, and ultimately a little wearying. But it's also unpretentious and insanely cheerful. Also with Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Cheech Marin, Tom Savini, and Fred Williamson. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

great dvd great soundtrack
Great dvd great soundtrack and the addtional disc of behind the scenes stuff was aslo great

A Great Vampire Movie Starring George Clooney!!!
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I love it. It's Campy, Fun, over-the-top, and action filled. Great performances, cast, dialog, and non-stop entertainment.

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