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Storyline
With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi", director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi", where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown. |
Backdrops
The Director
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), The Faculty (1998), Spy Kids (2001), Sin City (2005), Planet Terror (2007), and Machete (2010). He also produced the latest installment in the Predator series, Predators (2010).
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User Reviews
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Early (Less Rough) Review: Revisiting "Desperado"
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From January 28, 2007:
I rented this movie on my first trip to the video store in over a year (hey, I can borrow so much, I haven't needed to go). I decided to watch this movie again when I made up my mind that I wanted to see its sequel, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, which I will blog about next. I had seen this movie once, a long time ago in college, and remembered very little of it except for a lot of acrobatic gunfire from dreamy Antonio. It didn't leave much of an impression on me then, so I don't know what possessed me to pick up this series again.
Well, actually I do. Given my latest new and improved interest in Johnny Depp, I have been watching or rewatching many of his movies. The sequel intrigued me, and I felt I couldn't watch that without watching this one again, to refresh my memory.
Turns out, it didn't really matter. The two movies are not very connected. And my second viewing of Desperado didn't leave me feeling any more impressed than I was the first time.
Antonio plays a gun-toting mariachi who seeks revenge for the murder of his girlfriend and the maiming of his left hand. The body count is high, the direction stylized, and, of course, there is an interesting twist and the chance meeting of a new lady love, Carolina, played by Salma Hayek.
I never saw nor was aware of El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez's first rendition of this movie. I understand from limited research that the former version, filmed for a limited budget and all in Spanish, is a superior film. Maybe one day, I'll pick it up. I saw Desperado the first time by chance. It was on TV; I think I had Showtime back in those days, so I watched it. I didn't realize that it w...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 27th of January 2010
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