Saturday, April 2, 2005

Movie : Once Upon A Time In Mexico

You pick up a movie and expect the Mariachi to go nuts, and you end up with a revolution of Mexico? And the CIA was up to something, maybe crooked? What? What happened here? Did you say 'Drug Cartel'? The chick in the Mexican Swat team is who? What? Somebody is swapping his face with someone else?

Director Robert Rodriguez took this film all over the place. I am estimating at least three viewings to fully get what he was trying to accomplish. I think Desperado was better, just because it had a simpler plot: Revenge. This movie had ten plots. Maybe twelve. Half a dozen too many, at the least.

Recommend? YES! When will they learn that you can't hit a Mariachi with bullets?!

1 comment:

Michael said...

as a similarly titled movie, I recommend "Once Upon a Time in the West" instead. Sergio Leone Directs, and Charles Bronson kills people.