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Kiss the Bride (2007)
Flawed but enjoyable.
This was enjoyable, if not exactly a "feature" - it looked like it was shot for TV (especially the toaster graphics for the opening credits!). I thought the script was good, but the direction was very uninteresting and static (C. Jay Cox, whose script for "Latter Days" wasn't this strong but who did well with "Sweet Home Alabama", fumbled the ball behind the camera). The acting was uniformly strong among the supporting cast and two of the three leads were quite good. Pleasant surprise? Tori Spelling was among those two. She didn't play too broad and achieved some real moments of emotional connection to her character that made you feel for Alex.
In the end, it's the small things that work best in this movie - the little human moments between characters outside of the craziness a romantic comedies conventions demand. The script could have used a polish, but overall this is an enjoyable movie that I'd be happy to catch on cable again in the future.
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999)
This was actually Part 2 at one time...
But the movie got delayed for some reason. The Santanico prequel elements and the temple connection were suggested at and added after the test screening I saw about a year and a half before it hit the shelves. Texas Blood Money got shot and released on video between that time somehow. Also, the original ending (avail on the DVD) featured Ambrose as a vamp telling the story to someone in a bar in the present day. All and all, a competent movie that would have been well served by a few things: a bigger and better-spent budget, more creative involvement by Rodriguez & Tarantino (maybe a switch on the directing and writing credits?), and most of all the single greatest asset the uneven first movie had: Cheech Marin!