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Summary: Awesome action movie!
Review: This is a great action movie that tells the tale of revenge-and tells it well!Robert Rodriguez did great with El Mariachi(specially with its low budget of a measly 7,000)and he has(in my opinion done better with this).Anyway this is a great action movie with some great action sequences!My only problem is that the DVD does not have a whole lot of extras.Wich for $20 dollars I was expecting a little more than a directers comentary.
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Summary: Blood-spurting, bullet-flying, love-making, entertainment!
Review: This is the most pointless and hilariously loud film that explodes into outrageous violence and profanity when it is at its best. Robert Rodriguez never lets his movies run on logic or good plots, but the characters are always inventive and funny. Now if you're offended by trashy sex and gory violence, then stay away. But if you enjoy this Tarantino-inspired schtick, then this is an action-packed treat (filled with brilliant camera trickery)!
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Summary: "We heard stories about a guitar case full of guns"
Review: If you love shootouts and revenge, you'll love this movie, it is about a mariachi (Banderas) carrying a guitar case full of guns looking for revenge against a man named Bucho (De Almeida) who had one of his guys kill the mariachis wife. There is a great cast with Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin and Quentin Tarantino. This movie is great, I like the beginning where Buscemi is exaggerating about El Mariachi about the shootout he witnessed in Zaragosa. I also like when Tarantino tells his joke to the bartender. This movie is worth watching even if your not mexican. It takes place in Santa Cecilia, Mexico. It is like a south of the border Pulp Fiction.
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Summary: The Most Original Action Movie of the 90s
Review: I am the type of guy who likes original stuff, if you've read any of my other reviews, you know. So when it comes to action flicks, I am hard on'em, if they don't have one-man-kills-twenty action, I won't like it. If they don't have gun battles, I won't like it. If there isn't a good plot, I won't like it. If it doesn't have humor on the side, I won't like it. And it has to be non-predictible and action that makes you laugh it is so cool, without that, I won't like it. I had a tough time finding a movie that fits this catagory until I saw a preview for 'Desporado' on another movie. When the preview was over I said "That is the one." I sure was right.This movie has got it all, the most original plot (revenge), some awesome one-man-kills-twenty action, action that makes you laugh, more than enough humor(If it has Steve Buscemi in it, it has to be funny), a girl, and the big non-predictible action(tell me that a guitar case that is a rocket launcher is predictible)! Plus is has got a great cast with Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Steve Buscemi. So, if you like original action movies, see this movie, if you like other stuff see this movie, everbody, see this movie, this is the best movie there is and I am ashamed of myself for not knowing about it until one month ago. This movie should go down in history!
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Summary: I want to be Antonio Banderas
Review: This psuedo-sequel to Rodriguez's exremely low-budget "El Mariachi" is all about action. If you're not an action fan, this movie is, plain and simple, not for you... but if you *DO* like action, this one has it in spades. What gives this movie an edge over other action flicks, in my opinion, is that it doesn't pretend to be anything else. Sure, there is a little romance, but the girl (Salma Hayek) never distracts from the action scenes... in fact, she participates to a limited degree in some of them. Sure, there's humor, but it's not Schwarzenegger-style cheesy one-liners, it's actually funny, and again, it doesn't distract from the action. Now, the action. Pure, unadulturated, edge-of-your-seat action. Top notch. Eye-candy galore. This movie gets 4 stars instead of 5 for two reasons: #1, it's entirely one-dimentional, and #2, the gun-battles, as is typical in most action movies, stretch the bounds of reality to the breaking point. Yes, Antonio Banderas *does* reload, but still, I think 5 guys with machine guns can take one guy with 2 hand guns. Don't watch it for reality, or for complexity, watch it for gorgeous action scenes.
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Summary: "Forgive me Father, for I have killed a lot of men today"
Review: Guns, guns, lots of guns, more guns, big guns, long guns, guns in guitars, rocket launchers in guitars, guns up sleeves, guns, guns guns. Couple of extra guns thrown in on the side. Oh and some dinky knives too. That about sums up Desperado really. Apart from the fact that it's a refreshingly well made Mexican revenge story, well shot and craftily edited by Robert Rodriguez. It's also extremely funny in places. Some bits are stupendously over choreographed and others are as naturally clumsy as you'd expect in bar fights! The good guy doesn't have infinite ammunition either! If you liked "From Dusk Till Dawn" you'll love this film - classy, full of every gun under the sun and well acted. Enjoy.
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Summary: GREAT Movie
Review: This is one of my all time favorite action movies, for it's great plot, great action sequences and incredible cast. And I do mean incredible. Banderas, Steve, Cheech and even Quentin are great. Banderas flawlessly portrayed his character, and the action sequences were outstanding. The four stars rating is in reation to the DVD, which was quite dissapointing. The picture quality is great, the 5.1 Sound is great, but extras? Good god, you cant even give us a trailer, Columbia? I would of killed for a Robert Rodriguez commentary track. The closest you get to any kind of an extra is the single quote by Robert that's featured in the DVD's booklet. Great Movie, Good DVD.
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Summary: great action flick made for DVD
Review: Pretty good movie with fantastic violence. Salma Hayek is simply gorgeous. Picture and sound kick... on DVD.
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: Still can't get enough of it even five years after its release!
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Summary: A perfect Shoot -em-up movie
Review: In the second movie following Robert Rodriguez's movie El Mariachi "in which he had too sell himself as a science expiriment to make the movie."stars Antonio Banderas as a former guy in a mariachi band who is trying to get revenge for whoever killed his girlfriend. A great movie with plenty of special effects and well choreographed gun fights I reccomend this to any newcomer or fan of Robert Rodriguez films
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