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Robert RodriguezScénario:
Robert RodriguezPhotographie:
Guillermo NavarroMusique:
Los LobosActeurs·trices:
Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Carlos Gómez, Quentin Tarantino, Tito Larriva, Danny Trejo (plus)VOD (3)
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Au nord du Mexique, Desperado, le guitariste à la gachette facile, parcourt le pays pour venger sa bien-aimée, abattue par un puissant trafiquant de drogue. Sa route est jonchée des cadavres de ceux qui ont tenté de l'arrêter ou n'ont pas répondu à ses questions. (texte officiel du distributeur)
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Critiques (8)
An absolute classic, something that cannot be said about many films made in the 1990s, but Rodriguez did a fantastic job with this over-the-top piece. Tarantino's legendary humor, Salma Hayek, and Antonio Banderas with a guitar are just fragments of an unforgettable, often grotesque Mexican mosaic full of humor, exaggeration, and bloody action. It's simple, visually unappealing and cheap, yet attractive (Salma+Banderas), with fiery pace. A cool one-off.
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Desperado was preceded by the excellent reputation of Lemonade Joe, but frankly, it fell short of its predecessor's legacy. As it's less witty, and it compensates with more action. However, I'm not a fan of action movies, and the screenplay felt only average and, above all, uneven to me. Strong moments, especially in the second half, alternate with filler filled with gratuitous violence. To fully accept Desperado, I needed a bit more humor and wit. Overall impression: 55%.
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I always enjoy these tequila westerns. I enjoy Quentin Tarantino's mini-performance and his glorious ending, as always the excellent Steve Buscemi, hot-tempered music and Mexican wild action. This is possibly Rodriguez’s best directing performance of his career, and El Mariachi, played by Antonio Banderas, has the grace of great heroes-avengers. Desperado is actually nothing more than a clichéd shooter with a traditional western plot. The joke is that the film is well aware of this and is a truly scathing parody at certain times when the characters speak. On the one hand, it’s quite funny, while on the other a brilliant and exciting action film about a guitarist who plays using two shotguns... I like it!
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From the whole loose El Mariachi - Desperado - Once Upon a Time in Mexico trilogy, Desperado belongs to the best of what the nineties brought after Hollywood decided to take some of the shine from Spain and Mexico. There's not much to talk about here: the rough beauty of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, and the great soundtrack by Los Lobos and Robert Rodriguez in top form.
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In his debut, El Mariachi, a labour of love shot in amateur conditions, Robert Rodriguez came up with a fascinating blend of Mexican narco-thrillers and American action movies. The indie film became a surprise hit in American cinemas and international video distribution, so the studio enthusiastically agreed to a more expensive and star-studded sequel. Desperado is a captivatingly stylish concentrate of Ibero-American genre movies, iconic elements of American westerns and formalistic inspiration from Hong Kong’s bloody ballets of the heroic bloodshed subgenre. At the same time, it’s deliberately designed to be a showcase for Latino acting talent – from European natives Antonio Banderas and Joaquim de Almeida to Hollywood legend Cheech Marin, the distinctive Danny Trejo and Salma Hayek in her first major role. American indie-film mascot Steve Buscemi and Rodriguez’s friend and fellow director Quentin Tarantino support them in minor roles. While critics complained about a talented indie filmmaker selling out to the glittering world of studio production, the film introduced movie fans around the world not only to the aforementioned actors, but also Rodriguez’s distinctive style, which blends exaggerated comic-book earnestness with grandiose coolness and an ethnically specific variation of trash genres.
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