Desperado

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Summary: one of the coolest movies ever
Review: this is just flat out a cool movie. the writing is great and the actin is even better. quentin tarantino has a great cameo and antonio banderas is awesome. not to mention selma hayek is real real hot. cant wait till once upon a time in mexico cuz wit johnny depp the sequel will b even better. i have not seen el mariachi but i will. i dont care what the movie is no matter how bad or good it is steve buscemi is the man. he makes everything better, hes real funny and a great actor.

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Summary: Anything lower than a one?
Review: I can't put into words how much I loathe this movie. I understand that violence is a necessary element in certain select films, but this is going WAY to far. The mention of it makes my inside squeamish. I can handle the sight of blood fairly well, but this movie made me vomit in disgust. The plot is hopelessly weak, the "Desperado" near invincible, and the damsel in distress is so caught in wearing scanty clothes that the viewer tends to forget her purpose.

This film is totally unrealistic. I was either turning my head away in disgust, or busy rolling on the floor laughing about its false portrayal of weapons. There is one scene where a guy walks out with a guitar case and flips it up over his shoulder, firing a huge missile, which of course hits dead onto its target. Another guy has two guitar cases, and each one is a machine gun. He fires them both from his hip, and somehow manages to hit everything perfectly.

I would say that Desperado, in the end, lived up to its title: Just a plain DESPERATE attempt for some quick cash.

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Summary: Sphagetti Mexicano!
Review: I first seen El Mariachi and that guy is the MAN! Then when I was notified of the making of this movie I waited and waited till it came into the theatres as the 'El Mariachi Remake!!!' which was not the actual title but the exact words that came out of people mouths when this movie was released. First off it's a good movie with cameos from Cheech Marin as the rough faced bartender and Quentin Tarantino as a joke saying criminal. Banderas is a guitar player with a double life and which contains singing and entertaining in the day, and avenging his brothers death by going to corrupted bars all over Mexico and burning them to the ground after he shoots up everyone in it first, of course! I liked El Mariachi alot better but I still really like this movie. I just really wished that the ending turned into a different set of emotions instead of what appears on the screen. Overall this movie is not a milestone , classic, or hidden gem but a movie with a good pace of action that many many films can't hold up for even the first half-hour. This movie gives a good action pace with dialogue at the right times and a good DVD!!!

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Summary: Totally unrealistic and lotsa gory [stuff]
Review: That pretty much sums it up. Banderas' character is looking for his wife's killer, and is always finding himself being [at risk] by dozens of people at a time. Of course, the"Desparado" is never grazed by a single bullet, and knife attacks don't seem to faze him either. He is the Latino Superman, but with no real purpose. He has a leading lady (Selma Hyack) who helps Desparado [destroy], and there is a memorable love scene. Lots of traumatic explosive [end of life], however, so be warned.

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Summary: Great over the top action
Review: Banderas has been pretty stale in some roles, but he was pefect in this role. A funky score includes a great opening song sung by Banderas.

Some movie snobs don't like this semi-remake version of El Mariachi but the sense of humor carried throughout makes it a great addition to any movie collection.

Great extended cameo roles by Cheech Marin and Steve Buscemi

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Summary: Early Banderas
Review: A remake of the foreign film of the same name, this incarnation is perhaps spiced up more for American tastes. Here is the drift: a traveling mariachi stranger shows up to town seeking revenge. His reputation preceeds him and plenty of violence and a beautiful woman follow him to the inevitable ending. Featured is violence as an artform a la Quentin Tarentino. Antonio is a young stud who gets the Oscar for overacting. Oh, yes, Salma Hayek is there to make our eyes pop out. Don't plan on watching this with your date for a romantic evening at home; this is pretty much a guy flick. Lush photography and a score by Los Lobos cap this off as a couple of hours well spent. Watch this some night with Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers and OD on blood, guts and girls

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Summary: Very good chemistry
Review: This movie has something much different and much more important than others of the same kind. It combines two very good actors, a very good plot and mixed feelings. It manages to combine successfully, love, hatred, anxiety and a happy end in a unique way. That is, because of the chemistry that exists between the actors. Only the look they have when they are together in the scene makes the movie much more real than any other love story...
A must-see for the fans of heroism and love!

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Summary: A cheerless slog
Review: With his virtually "no-budget" debut "El Mariachi," Robert Rodriguez demonstrated his capacity to relate a rather banal story with enough focus and enough gusto to draw our attention away from the derivative plot and toward the movie's sheer execution, a feat of classical grungy entertainment that almost defies any serious critical explication. His over-budgeted sequel, on the other hand, instead of delivering on the promise of a fresh indie sensibility gone big-time, simply sinks into a lazy assurance of its own B-flick boisterousness. It's odd to discover how little interest Rodriguez seems to have invested into making his clunky little revenge western even remotely engaging, almost leading the viewer to suspect the possibility of a very tragic film-industry cliché: the money, the star power, and the stark abundance of resources have clouded Rodriguez's vision as a manufacturer of camp. Only a few of the screenplay's pointless contrivances (like a Quentin Tarantino cameo involving a very long and not particularly well told joke, or Steve Buscemi's introductory narration in a bar that cutely foreshadows the hero's first killing spree) summon up the idea that Rodriguez is just fooling around, which is exactly what he should be doing with a film that's already resigned itself to the lower notch of blockbuster entertainment. For the rest of "Desperado"'s running time, however, the treatment of the material remains grim, studied, and joyless. The film plays as a sort of announcement, mandatory and inevitable, of Rodriguez's talent to the mainstream public, as if he weren't quite ready to manage that leap of faith on his own, not quite accustomed to the notion of transforming millions of dollars into a single motion picture.

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Summary: Desperado, a great film!
Review: This is oh so much better than your average gun fight revenge film. It's cool, and stylzed. It has Buscemi! Their are some hilarious parts. There's plenty of drama as well as violence. There is however, a romance that seems to come out of no where... So many good ways to turn guitar cases into weapons. 18 thumbs up!

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Summary: West Side Story...South of the Border
Review: OK, may be the plot isn't relative and the weaponry a little more state-of-the-art, but the choreography.....better!

This violent, shoot-um-up-to-the-max was definitely 'death dancing to it's own rhythm'.

I viewed the Superbit DVD, but never having watched either of the previous two DVDs nor the video, I can't make any comparison. I can say the DTS was awesome. The picture quality was excellent. It doesn't get any better than this, especially since the tiny shrinking cinemaplex theaters have made my surround-sound and 32" TV the theater of choice.

Sex and guns and music from Los Lobos interwoven with campy humor, Antonio being...well Antonio (ladies, need I say more), with great support from the likes of Steve Buscemi (in one of his best roles I think), Cheech Marin, and the sultry Salma Hayek; what more could you want in an action movie. I found this film far superior to and much more enjoyable than 'Dawn To Dusk'.

Now that 'Desperado II - Once Upon A Time in Mexico'is in the works for a 2003 release with the return of Antonio and Salma and the addition of Johnny Depp and Enrique Iglesias, once again under the direction of Robert Rodriguez, we can look foward to finding out just where the loving couple rode off to into the sunset.

Seems I repeatedly say these two things:

I am not your run-of-the mill young western fan - wrong gender, wrong age, but I enjoyed it anyway;

and also reminding those who picked-at the flaws, degraded and jeered at the plot (?), questioned the reality, and just plain didn't get the campiness, to just let yourself go!

Don't take yourself and the movies so seriously. Enjoy the humor. Enjoy Antonio or Salma, whichever one sets your pulse-to-racing. Heck, just enjoy the movie!