ANTONIO BANDERAS   SALMA HAYEK   CHEECH MARIN

JOAQUIM de ALMEIDA   QUENTIN TARANTINO   and   STEVE BUSCEMI

star in

DESPERADO

He came back to settle the score with someone.

ANYONE.

EVERYONE.

VHS - NTSC - NEW - USA Video Dealer Preview - Not-rated - Features a number of preview trailers before feature - 103-minutes - Colour - 1999-release - Small cardboard box

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.

A true 90's cowboy movie, everyone who saw El Mariachi could foresee that this picture would take the concept to the top. 

Fast-paced, greatly shot, incredibly edited, this movie refuses to take itself seriously and is well-succeeded in so.

 Antonio Banderas is the perfect Mariachi, adding a new depth to the first movie's main character. He seeks revenge. Revenge for all the things they did to him. And he will get it, the easy way or the hard way. 

Fellow portuguese Joaquim de Almeida is Bucho, the villain, whose relationship with El Mariachi turns out quite surprising near the end. 

Until they both meet, there will be much gun-slinging action to fill the screen with anthological scenes, like the bar fight, the "Quedate Aqui" song and the final showdown. 

The movie is a comedy, even in the action scenes. I guarantee it, it's two hours of fun and a visible influence of the Westerns and B-Movies in someone's talent. 

Cracking good fun, which becomes addictive. Memorable movie.