Once Upon A Time In Mexico

POSTED 1 - FEB - 2003   ON NEVARANTA.COM

by FilmHazard

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It was with great anticipation I welcomed the final chapter in the “desperado” trilogy when Once Upon a Time in México first came out at the cinema, and being DVD collector the DVD release was no exception – not disappointed, but It could have had more material, though some of the extra material that is there is great, but I will get back to that.

First let me do a brief review for those who did not see the movie at the cinema. The movie is a follow up to Desperado and El Mariachi two great loan gun slinger man sort of a modern western flick movie, both featuring Antonio Banderas. In Once Upon a Time in México

We have a new villain in Brad Pitts (who does a great job) character as a strayed federal agent.

Shortly told the plot this time: El Mariachi has retired to the slow village life where he learns to make guitars, but he get pulled back inn as Johny Depp’s character hunts him down for a Job offer he cant refuse. The movie brings inn many old bad-guys actors and are true the first movie, the whole things is masterly conducted by director Rodriguez, who with grace master to use the old movie clichés with out making it taste bad, great cinematography as well.

It’s a hymn to the great tradition in mixes what make gangster movies so fascinating, the torture soul, the love of art, contrasted by the brutality of the a murderess life.

For the extra material there is the usual trivia question where you can measure how well you paid attention during the movie, and there is a shooting game made in with Flash, pretty standard. But then there is this small featurette called “inside troublemaker studios” which makes (at least for a film enthusiast as myself) the movie worth having even if I didn’t like the film itself (which I do like in case you didn’t read the first part).

Starring; Antonio Bandera, Johnny Depp, Eva Mendes, Enrique Iglesias, Salma Hayek, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe.

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