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Summary: If you¿ve seen Desperado, you¿ve only seen the second part!
Review: Originally shot on video tape, this movie is one of Robert Rodriguez's triumphs as a director/editor! The story begins with a simple Mariachi looking for work but quickly escalades into far more. Prisoners escaping, drug smuggling and guns firing, the young Mariachi finds himself surrounded by henchmen via mistaken identity. Wonderful editing but poor sound; it is however a must have for those who enjoyed the Desperado film.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Please take into account that this movie was mad with a budget of $7000 dollars, about the cost of Godzilla's toe nail. It is a masterpiece in film making.
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Summary: YO QUIERO EL MARIACHI
Review: Rodrigues should have stopped here. The succeeding films, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico had five hundred times the budget and not even a fraction of the substance. In El M., A would-be mariachi singer inadvertantly and unintentionally gets caught between a woman in whose bar he sings, her gangster suitor (Blanco), and a rival gangster who's gunning for the first. A good narrative that constantly keeps the movie going and the viewer involved, and unlike the other two films, stays reasonably within the realm of reality. Nobody climbs the walls like Spiderman and nor does anyone carry a bazzoka or machine gun that looks like a guitar case. El M. has real(ish) people in real(ish) events, and granted, the actors are obviously amatures, but even Depp, Cheech Marin, and Antonio Baderas couldn't make Once Upon a Time In Mex. worth watching. Watch this one and forget the other two.
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Summary: IMPRESSIVE DESPITE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
Review: Rodriguez manages to make a good film despite paying for it out of pocket. I enjoy this much more than the high budget remake: Desparado. A lot of today's film makers should take note of what Rodriguez has done here. Rodriguez embodies the essence of film making: creativity.
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Summary: what Hollywood can't do anymore
Review: Thank God Hollywood ignores small-town, low-budget directors with real imagination; otherwise, Robert Rodriguez could never have made this amazing little movie. Better than 99% of the big-budget malarkey H'wood puts out. Follow it up with his short film "Bedhead" & "Rebel Without A Crew" (the book on the making of his movie) and you'll have little doubt of his talent.
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Summary: Crazy Action
Review: The first film by Robert Rodríguez, who went on to do Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, among other, if you can get past de spanish languaje it is still a great low budget action film, even comparable with some big time movies, the action scenes are some of the best, specialy because of budget contraints. A very original and funny movie.
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Summary: Shoestring budget, lots of action, weak story.
Review: This 1992 film is best known for its cost of production, which was a mere $7,000. The feature on the DVD was fascinating as the writer-director, Robert Rodriguez, showed us how he planned his shots and then expertly put them all together. As far as the film itself goes, however, it was a rather slow and simple story of mistaken identity. A young mariachi, played by wide-eyed Carlos Gallardo, comes into a Mexican town carrying a guitar case. Little does he know that there is a gang war going on and that a bad guy is murdering the men of the local warlord. The young mariachi is mistaken for the bad guy and soon everyone is after this innocent young man. Along the way he meets a woman, Consuelo Gomez, who hides him in her room and their romance is inevitable. Personally, I found the whole thing silly, especially since the film contained unnecessary dream sequences that did nothing to further the action. As a matter of fact, I found myself rooting for the bad guy. Good thing the film was only 81 minutes long.
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Summary: A low budget masterpiece!!!
Review: This film is a masterpiece!!! And this baby only cost $7,000 to make!!!Robert Rodriguez is a superlative director!!! A movie miracle!!! It's much better than many huge budget films!!! Sure it's filled with unknowns, but who cares, it's got a great story,great action and believe it or not great acting considering the microscopic budget!!! And the DVD has some very cool extras,including a director commentary,10 minute film school(Great stuff here!!!),His short film:Bedhead,and more!!! Two thumbs up!!! Five stars!!! A+
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Summary: una presentacion brillante
Review: This is a great flick! It is a small budget movie made by a young man with a dream. Robert Rodriguez did a spectacular job with this movie. It is such an unassuming tale but I found myself getting drawn in immediately. I like a good violent flick now and again. John Woo and Quentin Tarantino should both be proud of this effort. One gains tremendous empathy for the poor mariachi who is the victim of mistaken identity. Then he sees the woman he loves get shot down in cold blood. This low budget movie far exceeds the sequel Desperado in raw intensity and artistic purity. Gracias tanto Sr Rodriguez!
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Summary: Muy bueno
Review: This is a really good independent flick! I'd like to give it 5 stars, but I can't do that because of its tragic nature, which makes me only able to watch this once or at most very, very occasionally (although my husband wants to watch it again!)
This story is a tragic romance with a case of mistaken identity, set in modernish Mexico, entirely in simple Spanish with English subtitles (and this works here, people, very, very well.) Really, though, I should say it's a double tragic romance: El Mariachi is in love with his dream of being a mariachi, and he too falls in love with a woman who helps him, both of which end in less than what a romantic would hope for.
This film is very simply and artfully and romantically and suspensefully filmed. It is truly an independent film that is just so great to absorb, especially after you know all its little secrets.
Now, Hollywood grabbed onto this later and completed a continuing trilogy of "Desperado" (Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek) and "Once Upon a Time In Mexico" (ditto actors). That, really, is almost too bad. "Desperado" is okay, with a surprisingly good twist in the end, but very, very Hollywood with lots of color and graphic violence and explicit sex. But "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," after we rented it and started watching special features, I just decided it was way too overblown and gruesome to even come close to what the original content and sentiment of "El Mariachi" was about. We didn't watch it.
I'd recommend first viewing "El Mariachi," then if you like it, progress to "Desperado" (these were available at our video shop on one disc as one rental!) Unless you really luv these, don't bother with "Once..." It's just too gorey and certainly has lost any of the romance and art that "El Mariachi" was able to capture.
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