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DVD Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Guns, guns, guns! And a few explosions as bodies fly through the air and crash into tables and fruit stands. Once Upon a Time in Mexico, like all Robert Rodriguez movies, is all about the kinetic kick of high-velocity action. Johnny Depp, blase and whimsical, plays a CIA agent who's drawn guitar-playing gun-slinger Antonio Banderas (long black hair flopping over his face like the ears of a Labrador puppy) into a ridiculously convoluted plot to overthrow the Mexican government. Along for the ride are a craggy-faced rogue's gallery including Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Ruben Blades, and (to balance things out) the smooth, tantalizing complexions of Eva Mendes and Salma Hayek. For sheer trashy fun, Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a step down from its predecessor, Desperado--but Desperado set the bar pretty high. For coherent storytelling, look elsewhere, but for action razzle-dazzle, this is your movie. --Bret Fetzer
Once there were some idiots who thought they could direct
If I had known Desperado was going to have a follow-up I would have rushed to the store at once to find it, but in fact I just stumbled over it and I wish I hadn't.
It continues where Desperado ended, showing scenes where Mariachi's (Banderas) girlfriend (Carolina - Hayek) is killed by her ex-boyfriend. A corrupt CIA agent offers him a deal he can't turn away : revenge.
It works now and then, but too often it's too confusing and too many links and scenes that in my opinion could have been deleted and just left out, but then the movie would only be 30 min (OK by me).
It's an OK movie if you have nothing better to do a friday night, but to call this the sequel to Desperado is just taking it TOO far.
Don't bother
Awful. Johnny Depp plays a crazy CIA agent who tends to shoot people a lot. Just that is seriously laughable to watch. He is involved in a plot to assassinate a president of Mexico. Wait, he wants to kill somebody named general(who has a nice big mustache and scowls a lot) Marquez who wants to kill the president( and Johnny Depp's character doesn't care if he gets killed). That brings us to Antonio Banderas who wants revenge on Marquez for killing his wife(again?). With me so far? Antonio Banderas looks very handsome and spends most of his time walking around with a guitar and shooting a lot of bad guys who come out at him from all directions. There is a lot more to the plot but its so dumb that I don't even want to bother repeating it. Needless to say I pity anyone who actually bought this movie sight unseen and wasted their hard earned money. I love action movies but this is a joke.
Eye catching
The third in Rob Rodrigeuz's "El Mariachi" trilogy, this chapter involves a crew of colorful characters that range from a shady CIA agent to Cheech Plissken. Pretty unrealistic but remains entertaining for most of it's running length. There is little story but the crazily stylized action scenes and high body count morn than maky up for it. Depp steals every scene he is.
It's Sergio Leone meets Sam Peckinpah meets Quentin Tarantino in this ultraviolent, mythological shoot-'em-up by auteur Robert Rodriguez. In Desperado, Rodriguez creates larger-than-life, genre-tweaking stock characters and puts them through their paces. As they stride bravely through an Old West lightly dusted with camp humor, they're periodically called upon to nimbly dodge bullets and fireballs through outrageously choreographed displays of Hollywood pyrotechnics. In this bigger-budget semi-remake/semi-sequel to Rodriguez's indie sensation, El Mariachi (made, famously, for $7,000), Antonio Banderas is the darkly charismatic El Mariachi, the Mysterious Stranger in town; Steve Buscemi is perfectly cast as his weasely, motor-mouth Comic Sidekick, laying the groundwork for El... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Antonio Banderas - Salma Hayek Director(s): Robert Rodriguez DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Before Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, Mexicans in North American action films were typically maids, drug dealers, or prison inmates. Even if the Cisco Kid was a friend of yours, you handled a dust cloth or a Mac-10 if you lasted in Hollywood longer than a New York minuto. But when El Mariachi crossed the border in 1992, things changed. Granted, it still involved a drug lord in a shoot-em-up, bang-bang, but this time the good guy was a Mexican. Austin-based Rodriguez made El Mariachi for a fistful of pesos and a little help from his friends. He wrote, directed, coproduced, edited, and operated the camera. Plus, he assembled a cast that had never acted before to work por nada. All for a paltry $7,000, a milagro without a beanfield... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Antonio Banderas - Salma Hayek Director(s): Robert Rodriguez DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In the ongoing deluge of comic-book adaptations, Hellboy ranks well above average. Having turned down an offer to helm Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in favor of bringing Hellboy's origin story to the big screen, the gifted Mexican director Guillermo del Toro compensates for the excesses of Blade II with a moodily effective, consistently entertaining action-packed fantasy, beginning in 1944 when the mad monk Rasputin--in cahoots with occult-buff Hitler and his Nazi thugs--opens a transdimensional portal through which a baby demon emerges, capable of destroying the world with his powers. Instead, the aptly named Hellboy is raised by the benevolent Prof. Bloom, founder of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, whose allied forces enlist the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ron Perlman - Selma Blair - Doug Jones Director(s): Guillermo del Toro DVD Release Date: Released the 21 June 1994 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You won't need a bottle of rum to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially if you've experienced the Disneyland theme-park ride that inspired it. There's a galleon's worth of fun in watching Johnny Depp's androgynous performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, a roguish pirate who could pass for the illegitimate spawn of rockers Keith Richards and Chrissie Hynde. Depp gets all the good lines and steals the show, recruiting Orlando Bloom (a blacksmith and expert swordsman) and Keira Knightley (a lovely governor's daughter) on an adventurous quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ghost ship commandeered by Jack's nemesis Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), a mutineer desperate to reverse the curse that left him and his (literally) skeleton crew in... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Gore Verbinski - Hamilton Luske DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This movie is like a study of Bond and Bourn "The Bourne Identity (TV Miniseries) (1988)", action movies. Toss in the innocent enthusiasm as in "If Looks Could Kill (1991)", There are gadgets women plots and sub plots. But this movie is mostly about action. This is not one of those thinking movies or really a talkie. It does hold your attention.
Xander Cage is an innocent dissident minding his own business. The business being stealing the governor's car and displaying reckless abandonment all in the cause of freedom. He is pressed into serves ala "Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins (1985)" in lieu of a prison sentence. It seems that the NSA needs someone of his reputation and abilities for short time. Will he comply and if so how short of a time? Will he quit when he is told to... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Vin Diesel - Asia Argento Director(s): Rob Cohen DVD Release Date: Released the 19 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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