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Summary: Quirky, amusing, and a little long.
Review: Brad Pitt is great at those little comedic gestures of frustration; there are funny moments throughout, although you may feel that this movie is overlong. There's the token gay couple (one tough and violent, both likeable, but you knew that), many variants of the history of an old gun everyone's after, traffic lights in the middle of nowhere, endearing characters, some memorable scenes. Worth at least one watch.
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Summary: LOVED IT! THE CRITICS ARE STUPID!
Review: I don't know why the critics did not like this movie. I think this was a welcome change to the normal Julia Roberts fluff movies. She tends to yell too much and get a little over excited, but she is Julia all the way. I wish Julia and Brad had more scenes together, but overall I think it worked out. I don't care what the critics say, or what your friends might say. See it for yourself and YOU be the judge. This movie is entertaining, fun, have good twists and good performances. LOVED IT!
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Summary: Yo Quero Mexicano! ;-D
Review: This movie is mucho excellante! I knew I'd love it, and I did! Completely engrossing and entertaining from start to finish, and the narrative gun scenes were so great! Especially with the incredible soundtrack! If you like smart, funny, meaningful, and beautifully shot films with substance and meaning, without a message that hits you over the head like a sledgehammer, buy this DVD!...
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Summary: More than expected
Review: This movie is probably one of the best romantic comedies I've seen in a long time. Its not really a chick flick like many people are thinking and at times its quite funny. This ones a good mix of action, romance and comedy.This movie is one of the few in which Brad Pitt has done some great acting (Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, Se7en to name a few others). This is probably one of Julia Roberts' more mediocre performences. The downside is that the movie is pretty long... needlessly long I might add, and isn't one of those movies you see a lot. The DVD has some great features: about 7 or so deleted scenes, commentary which I haven't checked out and a making of featurette. My Advice: The packed DVD and the good movie are reason enough to buy this one but its a rent first in my opinion
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Summary: Far too confused and underdeveloped to be entertaining
Review: "The Mexican" wants us to believe that since we've got Brad Pitt and Julia "White Teeth" Roberts in a movie, a coherent script is optional. Sadly, only the most passive of viewers will find this an acceptable mix; not only is this film incredibly overlong for the material, it ends up being boring and closes with an overwhelming sense of futility and will leave most questioning, "So...what?"
Pitt does his best spastic loser impression, bumbling around the movie and trying to fix things with his girlfriend, an often-hysterical Roberts. Wyman's script is a lot less fun than it seems to think it is; attempts to make this a condensed "Way Of The Gun"-style gritty adventure as well as a comment on the dynamics of two people in impossible love fail horribly. In fact, since neither concept is properly developed, moments of startling violence look like a gimmick, and it's hard to believe for one frame of the movie that Pitt and Roberts' characters are/were ever/will ever be in love.
The one bright spot of the movie is Gandolfini, whose complex (or at least moreso than any other character in this mess) hitman is brought to life by his trademark mix of warmth and alarming force.
Unfortunately, he can't come close to saving the movie; "The Mexican" is a pointless and meandering movie so set in trying to be five or six other movies that it can't make its own name for itself.
Interestingly, the deleted scenes on the DVD fill out some substantial plot holes, but otherwise don't explain how with two hours of screen time (and nearly 140 minutes with deleted scenes in the mix), a promising crew and two of the biggest stars in America today can accomplish nothing and have you caring much less than you did when you walked in.
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Summary: the mexican is totaly entertaining
Review: I thought this was soooo funny. I loved it! really. everybody else hated it but thats just because they expected some serious, romantic, politically correct thing and they got a satrical, charismatic, harsh thing that they weren't expecting. It wasn't that harsh, don't take it that way, I just happened to see it with my over-critisizing grandmother who came out of the theater cursing all pop culture. It was way harsher than she's used to. Anyway, to get back on track... I loved the movie, it was really hilarious, but as I've said in previous reviews, I'm kind of weird.
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Summary: The Gun that Launched a 1000 ships......
Review: The pairing of Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts in "The Mexican" would have seemed, on paper, to be made in heaven. But in reality it's the pairing of James Gandolfini and Julia Roberts that is truly charming. Julia and Brad play a "can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em couple" who are very near splittsville. Brad is a low level criminal who promises Julia that retrieving a stolen priceless revolver in Mexico will be his last mission before he becomes a law abiding citizen. Julia, nostrils aflare and red hair flying doesn't believe him for a minute and takes off for Las Vegas. En route she meets up with Gandolfini, a gay(!) bag man for the mob, who not only saves her life but kidnaps her as a means of getting hold of the priceless revolver mentioned above called "The Mexican," by the way. WHEW! The scenes between Roberts and Gandolfini are quite touching and honest but the complicated plot keeps getting in the way of any real bond between them. Pitt is very believable and charming as a bumbling, tongue-tied crook and he has several fun scenes in Mexico with the locals. "The Mexican" is not the finest movie ever made but it's fun and all the principle actors are brimming over with buckets of charisma. So on a balmy summer night what could be better viewing, along with a 6pk of Corona,pickled pigs feet and some nacho chips? Ole'
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Summary: WEIRD ROMANTIC COMEDY... DIDN'T BUY THE ROMANCE THOUGH
Review: I gave "The Mexican" a three star rating because of the amount of star power that was put into this movie. Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and James Gandolfini give incredible performances, but the movie falls short somehow. I do admit that I laughed more than a few times, but the romance between Julia and Brad seemed fake. It didn't have enough chemistry to hold its own. The DVD is PACKED with deleted scenes that do add a certain something to the plot. Definitely and strictly a rental. Not worth owning, but worth watching just once.
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Summary: A DUD BY ANY ETHNIC NAME
Review: Widely promoted in posters, magazine and newspaper ad art and in theatrical trailers as a romantic, screwball road-movie, this film arrives on DVD in a great-looking widescreen transfer with extras. Unfortunately, the promise of an extended on-screen coupling of Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, two red-hot megawatt stars is quickly broken when the plot forces them to go their separate ways for most of the movie. J.H. Wyman's original screenplay has bounced around town and it's easy to see why. It's a confusing mish-mash of basically unrelated material. There's a feeble fable of a cursed, antique Mexican pistol, there's a sweet, weepy, sensitive gay hit man wonderfully played by burly James Ganolfini, and there's Brad Pitt's laid-back turn as a mobster's errand boy making one last run. Julia Roberts is pretty much a shrill whining caricature in bright colors who bonds with her sensitive, yet cold-blooded kidnapper (Gondolfini) while complaining about boyfriend Pitt. Even though things don't satisfactorily come together in this movie, it is visually pleasing. Gore Verbinski ("Mouse Hunt") directs with a verve but the forced material can't be overcome. The commentary by the director and writer gets awfully pretentious and self-serving at times and the only thing that is made abundantly clear is that this movie was written by a person who has little life experience but has no doubt logged thousands of hours watching movies. This film earned $60 million at the box office by movie goers who were duped into seeing something other than what was advertised. Shame.
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Summary: Entertaining screwball romance
Review: "The Mexican" follows the arcs of one dimwit and two marginally brighter bulbs in pursuit of the fabulous titular weapon. Brad Pitt pulls off the dim bulb role ably, but he does manage to seem just smart enough to stay alive in his difficult liine of work. Julia Roberts's rather loony rendition of Pitt's pyscho-babble enamored girlfriend teeters just on the edge of irritating, but Roberts's natural charm keep her in the audiences' good graces. The movie's real saving grace is James Gondolfini's delirously improbable character, who truly makes the movie worth seeing and adds the best entertainment value. Avoid this movie if you like very linear plot construction (a la French Kiss, Chinatown) and don't like disjointed cutting (Pulp Fiction, Traffic)
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