💡Trivia: The production budget for 'El Mariachi' was only $7000 and the director Robert Rodrigues was 23 Years old. He later progressed to direct 'Desperado' and 'Once Upon a Time Mexico.'
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'This First One Still The Best In The Trilogy' by ccthemovieman-124 December 2006
This movie put director Robert Rodriguez "on the map." He followed up with two sequels: "Desperado" and "Once Upon A Time In Mexico." Not surprisingly, the best of the three was this low-budget opening film. As Rodriquez had more and more money to spend on the sequels, the stories got more and more carried away with too many explosions and special effects, losing the charm of this first effort. The movie has interesting camera closeups and angles as Rodriquez shows that he was going to be a stylish director. The story is simple but effective, suspenseful, and even with some humor. Unlike his subsequent films in this trilogy, the action is not overdone here. The length is also a plus. At 80 minutes you can be thoroughly entertained in less than an hour-and-a-half. The only disappointment was the print quality. There might be better editions out since. It's not fuzzy but it's not sharp, either.
Anyway, I highly recommend it to action/crime buffs who like style in their photography, or saw the sequels and would like to know the history of this particular "Mariachi."
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🚨 With a guitar in his hand and a price on his head, he wasn't looking for trouble...but trouble came looking for him.
📽 El Mariachi Original title: El mariachi • 1992(Action/Crime/Thriller) R 🕞1h 21m
⭐️Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos | 📢Director: Robert Rodriguez | 📝Writer: Robert Rodriguez
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A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.
American crime lord Moco has set up a lucrative business in Mexico. He tries to rub out his imprisoned employee Azul. However, Azul overcomes the hitmen and escapes, determined to get revenge. Meanwhile, a wandering mariachi comes to the same town looking for work. As Azul's trademark is his guitar case filled with weapons, the Mariachi is mistaken for him and finds himself a hunted man. Everyone looking for him likes to shoot first and ask questions later, so correcting the misunderstanding will not be easy.
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🚨He came back to settle the score with someone. Anyone. EVERYONE. When the smoke clears, it just means he's reloading.
The explosive new film from Robert Rodriguez
🕞 1:21:47 ➤ 📽 Desperado • 1995 (Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller/Western) R 🕞1h 44m
⭐️Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida | 📢Director: Robert Rodriguez | 📝Writer: Robert Rodriguez
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Former musician and gunslinger El Mariachi arrives at a small Mexican border town after being away for a long time. His past quickly catches up with him and he soon gets entangled with the local drug kingpin Bucho and his gang.
With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown
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🚨 'The Time has come.'
🕞 3:06:15 ➤ 📽 Once Upon a Time in Mexico • 2003(Action/Crime/Thriller) R 🕞1h 42m
⭐️Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp | 📢Director: Robert Rodriguez | 📝Writer: Robert Rodriguez
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Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general. The Mexican president has declared war on the Barillo drug cartel, which has plans to fight back by backing a coup by General Marquez to overthrow the government. Agent Sands (Johnny Depp) of the CIA, is in the middle of it all, trying to make sure Marquez does NOT succeed... by forcing the notorious hit man-for-hire El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) out of retirement. El Mariachi, after the death of his wife and daughter years earlier (from the previous film 'Desperado'), no longer wishes to fight, but he may not have a choice. At Culiacan, Barillo and Marquez have set a trap for the president, and Sands wants El Mariachi to take out Marquez after the coup. El Mariachi called upon his two brothers for the showdown... To save the revolution. Who will remain standing at the end?
