| | | He came back to settle the score with someone. Anyone. Everyone.
Features: Special Edition, DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Spanish
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. The Superbit presentation utilizes a special high bit rate digital transfer process that optimizes video quality and offers a choice of both DTS and 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio.
"...never boring..." James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"Desperado gets the job done." Toronto Sun
Editor's Note
The no-named Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) tracks down the last Mexican drug-lord "Bucho" with the help of his best friend and a beautiful book store owner (Salma Hayek). In a poetically violent style reminiscent of John Woo and Sam Peckinpah, the Mariachi takes on his entire army of henchmen in a dusty border town as an act of revenge for the murder of his love and his injured musician's hand. Robert Rodriguez's big budget sequel to "El Mariachi." Also starring Cheech Marin (of Cheech and Chong) and Steve Buscemi (RESERVOIR DOGS).
Plot Summary
Director Robert Rodriguez' sequel to his 1993 ultra low-budget movie, "El Mariachi." This film continues the story of the no-name, solitary, brooding mariachi, whose guitar case is stocked with high-powered weaponry. The musician is in a sleepy Mexican town seeking revenge against the much-feared, ruthless Bucho, a drug dealer who once shot El Mariachi in his strumming hand, and killed his girlfriend. When Bucho hears that the guitarist is looking for him, he sends his men out to forestall the attack -- which leads to many well-choreographed and bloody shootouts. Will the Latin adversaries ever confront each other directly? And if so, who will survive?
| Features | Trailers | | Director And Cast Filmographies | | 10 More Minutes With Robert Rodriguez: Anatomy Of A Shootout | | Free Trial Included: Screenblast Movie Studio? Video-Editing Software! | | Director Commentary | | Scene Selections | | Interactive Menus | | Exclusive First Look At Once Upon A Time In Mexico | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | Audio: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Surround | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 7/26/2005 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 09961 | | UPC: 00043396099616 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed, Chinese Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Cannes Film Festival (1995) | | | Robert Rodriguez, Nominee, Golden Palm Award | |
MTV Award (1996) | | | Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek, Nominee, Best Kiss |
| Memorable Quotes| "The client is always wrong." ---- sign in the bar run by Short Bartender (CHEECH MARIN). | | "It's easier to pull the trigger than play the guitar.... It's easier to destroy than to create." ---- El Mariachi (ANTONIO BANDERAS) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Antonio Banderas is the ultimate in sexy action cool....The stunts dazzle..." 09/07/1995 p.76-7Sight and Sound
"....Breathtaking....[Rodriguez] makes adventurous use of the camera..." 02/01/1996 p.38 Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] propulsive rock & roll spaghetti Western....Wittily hyperbolic..." -- Rating: B 09/22/1995 p.62 Variety
"...[The film] could scarcely be more dazzling on a purely visual level....There is no question of imagination working overtime..." 05/29/1995 Total Film
"...On a visual level, DESPERADO is a dazzlingly indulgent exercise..." 08/01/2000 p.100 Box Office Magazine 7 of 10
Desperado is such a fun, exhilarating film and its star, Antonio Banderas, so stunningly photographed in every frame that this movie might do for his American career what Legends of the Fall did for Brad Pitt... There's shooting aplenty in Desperado, but the violence is so stylized and the conflicts so lovingly evocative of spaghetti westerns that the tone remains light throughout. - Lael Lowenstein
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
(Writer/director Rodriguez) has a gift for visuals that can make scenes dance on the screen. Like Sergio Leone, who lifted those early Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns out of their genre and made them something special, Rodriguez knows how to handle atmosphere and sudden explosions of violence. - Rober Ebert
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