From Dusk to Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money . Austin Chronicle . 03-29-99

From Dusk to Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

DIRECTED BY: Scott Spiegel

REVIEWED: 03-29-99

Scott Spiegel takes up this franchise's directing duties from Austinite Robert Rodriguez and comes up with a mixed bag of body parts; wild, fantastic flights of fantasy; and dialogue ripped from the pages of today's phone book. Okay, it's not that bad, really, but anyone expecting the razor-sharp wordplay or the lightning pacing and crackling direction of the first is apt to be disappointed. Robert Patrick and Bo Hopkins fill in for Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney and the shoes prove to be just too big. Still, Spiegel makes much of his and co-writer Duane Whittaker's script, which tosses in everything from anthropomorphic bats to a return to the legendary Titty Twister bar, the home to the vampiric antiheroes who populate the film like roaches in a West Campus walkup. Genre veteran Bruce Campbell makes a welcome appearance in an otherwise vapid opening sequence, while Tiffany-Amber Thiessen essays the role of hootchiemama to the damned (and you thought Beverly Hills, 90210 was scary). Ultimately suffering from a titanic lack of smarts, this sequel in a projected trilogy falls far short of the mark in every category except gore. And dead bats.

--Marc Savlov

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