Once Upon A Time In Mexico | | Cast : | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe | | Director : | Robert Rodriguez | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 12, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | June 07, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | An Excellent Movie IMO | Content
 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico is one of those movies that people either love or hate. I loved it, but could see why people would hate it. Some of the subplots could have been explained better plus some characters' history could have explained like what is the connection of the Barillo cartel and El and why did they put a price on his head. But beside that this is a really good movie with good acting and some epic action scences. Antonio Banderas returns as El Mariachi joined by Johnny Depp as a bad guy who in the end becomes sort of a good guy. Good supporting cast includes Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Selma Hayek, Eva Mendes, Cheech Marin, Rueben Blades, and even Enrique Iglesias. Highly Recommended but see the first two first. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | Movie good, extras even better... | Content
| I like the featurets included in the DVD. The director takes you to his home/studio and shows you his soundmixing equipent and breaks down a few of the effects. He also does a short teaching you how to cook a Mexican dish eaten in the film. Anybody who has any interest in filmaking, or cooking will like the bonus features. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | Why Can't They Just create a realistic hero? | Content
| Let's not say that this movie is a sequel to the mighty "Desperado" and face it as an Individual, new movie. well, it's better that way cause this movie can not be in any way compared with the original! As only an action movie, It wasn't that bad but...
1. They've shown mexico as an extremely primitive country, just like one of central or south american tiny republics. everyone knows Mexico although is not a modern country, but it's not that primitive too. they always show Desolated primitive northern states as entire mexico. it's an insult to mexican people! Is U.s. Arizona, New Mexico or parts of Texas better than mexican northern provinces? I guess not! Mexico City is a city with more than 10 million population! and It's a modern city! It's not right to show our neighbours primitive on purpose!
2. What's this Mariachi? Superman? Spiderman? Batman? I guess he soppose to be more real than a comic hero. most of his efforts could be end up unright! a person can be lucky and survive one time, possitively, two times! but not each time. I don't know why can't they just get rid of that "Comicism (I made this term myself!)" in their mind and create a realistic hero that children and youth can try to be like him with some effort and doing some sports! the mariachi I saw here, was a Superhuman!
Anyway, this is a good action movie for one night. at least it makes you less nervous than some similar movies! it has a good and reasonable story, great visuals and great actings. oh, buy the way, let's have a word about blind Jhonny Depp in this movie too! He sopposed to be blind. a Sudden Untrained blind. so how could he accomodate himself with new condition and became a "Laegendary like" warrior in less than an hour? and what was he looking at with no eyes? If he tried to act like a real blind man, it was a fair try! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 21, 2005 | | Summary | Once upon a caricature! | Content
| What can I say ... awful!
Being a fan of Once upon a time in the West and Once Upon a time in China I can safely say that this film is a franchise killer and never even came close to being in the same league as the other two. This film was so heavily stylized that it became a total cartoon with no believability whatsoever. If the audience was 14 year old boys who've just had their first beer ... sure, great film! This was just too much of a catalogue of cliche's for my taste.
What a waste of star power also ... Banderas, Depp, Rourke, Blades, Mendes, Defoe! Eee gad what a total waste! There was no storyline and infact this felt more like a series of filmed images from a vogue fashion shoot, the cringe-a-thon just didn't let up. It should be said that Depp and Blades characters were the redeeming features of the film whilst failing that there is nothing here worth salvaging for any thinking human being.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Dusk til Dawn and films like that because those films had a sound balance of storyline and characterization set hard against the juxtaposition of the ridiculous; hey, who can't dig that? I remember watching the original film Desperado and thinking ... whats the big deal here? That was awful also!
Bottom line ... crap. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 07, 2005 | | Summary | Thrice Upon a Theme in Hollywood | Content
| A disappointment. I was pleasantly surprised by Rodriguez's first film in the trilogy, El Mariachi: an independent effort in the good sense of the word, with signs of originality, some authentic atmosphere, and -- most unusual in the thriller genre -- even a little bit of heart. I should have stopped there, I guess, or maybe checked out the second in the series, Desperado (which I haven't seen).
In the interim, Rodriguez had clearly become a "bankable" writer/director/you name it. (According to the credits he seems to have had a hand in almost every creative aspect of the film; you get the feeling the only reason he didn't design the costumes was lack of time.)
Certainly various parties must have shoved huge wads of bills in each of his pockets and told him, go forth and multiply our money.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico has all the hallmarks of a big-budget action picture, which today primarily means lots of computer-generated effects plus high-profile stars. None of the latter offer much to appreciate, and Johnny Depp is nearly unwatchable with an absurdly fey, oh-so-ironic performance as a bent CIA agent. The only decent performance is by Ruben Blades, who brings some inwardness and dignity to his role as a retread FBI agent.
Rodriguez hasn't entirely lost his aptitude: there are cinematic coups here and there, and once in a while when the movie slows down to catch its breath between bloodbaths it becomes almost human. But way too much of the action is just a calculated, routine splatterfest in a sub-Peckinpah mode. |
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