Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 08/26/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por/Mandarin/TH
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol/Por
Sound: DDS/DD5.1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Director
Robert Rodriguez picks up where his successful independent debut
El Mariachi left off with this slam-bang South of the Border
action saga.
Bucho (
Joaquim DeAlmeida) is a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town.
Bucho and his men make the mistake of angering
El Mariachi (
Antonio Banderas), a former musician who now carries an arsenal in his guitar case.
Bucho was responsible for the death of
El Mariachi's girlfriend and put a bullet through his fretting hand, making him unable to play the guitar. Bent on revenge, the musician-turned-killing machine arrives in town to put
Bucho out of business, though he finds few allies except for
Carolina (
Salma Hayek), who runs a bookstore that doesn't seem to attract many readers.
Desperado features supporting performances from
Cheech Marin as a cynical bartender,
Steve Buscemi as the cantina patron who sets up the story, and
Quentin Tarantino as a man with a really terrible joke to tell.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
