| | | He Came Back to Settle the Score with Someone. Anyone. Everyone.
Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, French, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled, English, Subtitled
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. What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"...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 | Audio: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo | | Dubbed: French, German, Spanish, Italian | | DVD Quality Picture | | Full Length Movie | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Norsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai & Turkish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/31/2006 |
| Running Time: 104 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 14820 | | UPC: 00043396148208 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (1996) | | | Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek, Nominee, Best Kiss | |
Cannes Film Festival (1995) | | | Robert Rodriguez, Nominee, Golden Palm Award |
| 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 |
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