From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

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 gets 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, different story and a good FX effect, different ideas, it does have a good kill. It is underrated and unappreciated slasher horror sequel.

This film itself 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 get 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 explained. Those are main problems and issues 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 performance 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 kinds 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 jumps out of a window excellent stunt. Then 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 play as 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 Vampires are shooting with machine guns on SWAT Team and kills them all. You have explosions 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 standalone action horror movie with a twist, not near good as the first movie that I love to death but okay. Quentin Tarantino was executive producer of this movie would really like to see the TV series of the first movie.