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Desperado (DVD)

Antonio Banderas (actor), Joaquim de Almeida (actor) and Robert Rodriguez (director)
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Synopsis

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?

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Review

Rolling Stone, 09/07/1995, p.76-7, "...Antonio Banderas is the ultimate in sexy action cool....The stunts dazzle..."

Sight and Sound, 02/01/1996, p.38, "....Breathtaking....[Rodriguez] makes adventurous use of the camera..."

Total Film, 08/01/2000, p.100, "...On a visual level, DESPERADO is a dazzlingly indulgent exercise..."

Entertainment Weekly, 09/22/1995, p.62, "...[A] propulsive rock & roll spaghetti Western....Wittily hyperbolic..." -- Rating: B

Variety, 05/29/1995, "...[The film] could scarcely be more dazzling on a purely visual level....There is no question of imagination working overtime..."

Title Note

A Los Hooligans production.

Color by Technicolor.

Shot on location in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.

Additional credits: Luz Maria Rojas Magnon (unit production manager); Diego Sandoval, Joaquin Silva (assistant directors); Matthew Beville (sound editor).

Songs:
"Jack the Ripper" by Milt Grant, Link Wray, performed by
Link Wray & His Ray Men
"Morena di Mi Corazón (Canción del Mariachi)" by Cesar
Rosas, performed by Los Lobos with Antonio Banderas
"Manifold de Amour", "Forever Night Shade Mary", and
"Chinese Surprize" by David Hidalgo and Louis
Perez performed by Latin Playboys
"Pass the Hatchet" by Ray Theriot, Roger Leon Jr., Earl
Stanley Oropeza, performed by Roger & The Gypsies
"This House" by Tito Larriva, Tony Marsico, Valerie
Marsico and Charlie Midnight, performed by Tito &
Tarantula
"Strange Face of Love", "White Train" by Tito Larriva,
performed by Tito & Tarantula
"Bella" by Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson, Sterling
Crew performed by Carlos Santana
"Quedate Aqui" by Mildred Villafane, performed by
Salma Hayek

Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.

Product Quotation/Excerpt

"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)

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Letterboxed - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

Product Notes

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).

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