Well naturally after seeing the first movie of this series, From Dusk Till Dawn, I made it my duty to find out about seeing the sequels, and I wasn't disappointed. Upon arriving at the movie rental store, I went back, and after some mild searching, it was in the wrong place, I found it! I couldn't wait to get it home to watch it because everytime I went to watch it on TV, I always forgot and missed it. I watched it right after the first one, and this one, though not as good, what sequel ever is, is an excellent sequel to the first. Even if it doesn't exactly follow the story of the bar, but that's alright. It happens a while after the first one, making a reference to the Gecko brother's, and the gas station massacre. This definitely is a great sequel to From Dusk Till Dawn, as well as an awesome vampire movie overall.

The director of this movie is Scott Spiegel who does an excellent job taking From Dusk Till Dawn and devising a sequel from it. His visions for it are excellent, and make for an acceptible sequel, and overall movie. His views are actually very close to what Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together in the first one, and has generally the same feel as the first one, which is always a good thing to have with sequels. Scott Spiegel also acts as a story writer for this movie along with the help of Boaz Yakin, and together they bring us a very interesting and intense vampire movie, with a lot of twists. Together these guys bring us a very interesting and provocative addition to the From Dusk Till Dawn series. They definitely know what it is that they are doing.

The visuals in this movie, like the case was in the previous one, were awesome. It's very cool to see the different ways that vampires appear in movies over the years, and some of the visions for these creatures are very intense as well as awesome. Such is the case in this movie and it's predecessor. The vampires are a lot different than I've seen them in other movies, in this case they're more reptilian, which is an interesting and out there sort of effect, which by the way I mean in a good way. The violence in this movie is also at an all time high, which means that the blood level rises, but it's alright for this movie because of the ways that the vampires rip into people, and that's another thing. The blood is actually very convincing, like it was in the first film, and that's something that I always like to see in films. Realistic blood.

The storyline of this movie is definitely an original and intensely thrilling one. It follows the basic story, and the bar plays a small part in it. If you do not remember what I mean by "The Bar," I mean the bar called "The Tittie Twister" which the Gecko Brothers went to in the first one, and then were ambushed by vampires, and nearly everyone died. In this one a group of bank robbers decide to stay at a Hotel before making the trip to the bank, but soon however, things start to go strange, their leader tells them they will be doing the raid that night, almost completely unprepared, and that brings them into an entire mess of trouble. It's very interesting, and starts out very interesting, and there is a character that you'll definitely recognize from the first one. It's one that keeps you on the edge of your seat as well.

Robert Patrick stars in this movie as Buck. Buck is an ex-bank robber, who has now retired, but when a police officer shows up at his house looking for his old friend Luther, wanted for bank robbery and murder, he covers up, and the police officer leaves. Then he gets a call from Luther saying that he's got a new job that could land them alot of money. At first Buck says no, but then he realizes that he just cannot pass this oppurtunity up, so he agrees and puts together a team. That's when stuff starts to go all wrong. The team he puts together starts to fall apart big time, and they rush in on the robbery, only to find that his friends are have something seriously wrong with them, and naturally he begins to worry. ALOT. Robert Patrick, whom I don't really know at all, does a wonderful job in this role, his character, which is already so different to begin with, is portrayed by him very well, and he makes the character as well as the movie believable and conivncing. He was definitely a great casting choice for the role.

Bo Hopkins, whom I also don't know, plays Sheriff Otis Lawson. Otis is a generally nice hearted cop, but he knows who and what Buck used to be, and probably still is, and so when news reaches him about Buck's old friend Luther, he goes and pays Buck a visit to pump some information out of him. Of course Otis gets nothing, but he believes that Buck has naturally gone back to a normal kind of guy. However, soon the alarms go off at a bank that is being robbed, and guess who Otis should see robbing the bank, though he's not surprised in the least, but Buck. When Otis arrives he finds that he is in for a lot more than he bargained for because something is going on that's not normal. Bo Hopkins does an excellent job playing this character, he makes the character's want for Buck to be a good guy, very convincing, which helps the believability of the movie, like all good and convincing characters do. He was another great casting choice for this movie.

Duane Whitaker, whom I ALSO don't know at all, stars in this movie as Luther, Buck's best friend, and the man that is putting the bank heist together. Well Luther runs into some car trouble one day when he hits a rather large and nasty, mean bat one night. He is able to walk to a bar, called "The Titty Twister" where he promptly gets a drink, and tries to figure out how to get back to the hotel to meet with the team. A bartender at the bar offers to drive him back, but when Luther tells him about hitting and shooting the bat, the man stops at his car checks everything out, and then vamps out and bites Luther. Well naturally Luther returns to the Motel a vampire, and says that they will be heading out to do the mission immediately, but soon things begin to go down hill. Duane Whitaker does an excellent job at portraying this character, and makes the vampire very convincing and believable. He was yet another great casting choice for this movie.

Muse Watson, yet another actor that I've never heard of before, plays C.W. in this movie. C.W. is a farmer sort, who, like Buck, gave up bank robbing and such, but when Buck comes to him with Luther's offer and lays out the stuff, C.W. knows he'd be pretty stupid to pass the oppurtunity up, and he agrees to go along and help them because he is the technician that can get past the locks on the safe door. However, that's when Luther returns to the Hotel all spit fired and crazy, saying that they will be heading straight to the bank to rob it and then leave, and that it didn't matter how unprepared they were. Naturally, C.W., like Buck, disagrees and protests saying that they should wait and go through the entire plan, but they threaten with kicking them out, and he agrees to go with them. Soon however things start to go terribly wrong with Luther, and other members of the team. Muse Watson does an awesome job in this movie as well, and he plays a cowboy real well in this movie, which just makes it all the more believable and convincing, and really adds to the movie. Yet ANOTHER great casting choice for the movie.

All in all I'd say that this was definitely an awesome sequel to a movie that was already awesoem by itself. Very rarely do sequels come up that are almost as good as the original, and this is one of those exceptions. If you loved From Dusk Till Dawn, and/or if you love vampire movies, like me, then you'll definitely love this movie. It's definitely one that I loved!!!!!