El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico Box Set
Featuring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek & Carlos M. Gallardo
Format: DVD | Rating: 18 years & over
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El Mariachi - All he wants to be is to be a Mariachi, like his father, his grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse - of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the Mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez.
Desperado - Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin and Quentin Tarantino star in this stylish shoot -'em - up described as a south-of-the-border Pulp Fiction. Director Robert Rodriguez follows up his legendary debut film, El Mariachi, with this sexy sequel about a mysterious guitar player (Banderas) searching for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
Once Upon A Time In Mexico - The saga continues as the Mariachi (Banderas) makes his way across a rugged landscape on the trail of Barrillo (Willem Dafoe), who is planning a coup against the Mexican president. Enlisted by corrupt CIA agent Sands (Johnny Depp), the Mariachi demands retribution, and the adventure begins!
| Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Carlos M. Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke & Eva Mendes |
| Robert Rodriguez |
| 18 years and over |
| 1992, 1995, 2003 |
| Widescreen |
| English, French, German (for 'Desperado'); English, Russian (for 'OUTinM') - Dolby Digital (5.1) |
| Spanish, German (Dolby Stereo for El Mariachi) |
| 4 hours and 38 minutes (approx) |
| Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
Average rating (4 reviews)
This is a great collection of Rodriguez's films, let down slightly by the lacklustre Once Upon a Time in Mexico. El Mariachi was a stunning debut, I think of it as his Evil Dead equivalent, forming the blue print for the excellent Desperado. Its worth owning for these two alone, but I guess Once Upon a Time... completes the Mariachi trilogy.
Desperado features some great action sequences, Rodriguez really has an eye for a scene. The acting is also good, very tongue in cheek and suited to the film. It also features Salma Hayek (very under used in Once Upon a Time..) what more can you ask for?
This boxset made by the brilliant robert rodriguez (sin city, planet terror) is nothing but a fun entertaining set.
If you are looking for a serious dramatic action films then you should avoid this set.
With excellent roles by the likes of antonio banderas, steve buscemi, johnny depp and many others.
El mariachi is an entertaing bebut film made with a budget of $7000 about a mariachi.
Desperado, continues the story of "el mariachi" but with banderas taking over the role it is a sequel/emake with a more approriate budget of $8,000,000!
And finally "once upon a time in mexico" the silliest of all of them but to a certain extent the most fun to watch!
So all in all buy this boxset for this great price its the bargain of the century!
Ive been unimpressed with recent action movies - due to the lack of originality or elements such as acting and direction. This trilogy however shows a good progression of not only the characters in the stories but also of the skilled writer/director/film-maker involved in creating these stories -
These movies are modern classics - not just because of the movies themselves but also because of story behind the creation of some of them - the original movie El Mariachi for instance is a great movie and legendary for its rags to riches production story.
The movies get better and better with each sequel - so this trilogy is excellent value. This is definitely worth buying for any respected fan of westerns and action movies.
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