The Mexican (2001)
Genre: Action / Comedy
Duration: 123 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and James Gandolfini
IMDb score:
6,2 (122.592)
Releasedate: 1 March 2001
The Mexican plot
"Love with the safety off."
Jerry Walbach is a messenger for a mob boss. His girlfriend Samantha hates his job and asks him to stop. She even threatens to leave him if he accepts another assignment. However, Jerry sets out again: he has to go to Mexico to pick up an antique pistol - The Mexican. If he doesn't complete his task, Jerry waits for the bullet. When the principals feel the job isn't progressing fast enough, Samantha is kidnapped to pressure Jerry...
Actors and actresses
Jerry Welbach
Samantha Barzel
Winston Baldry
Ted Slocum
Beck
Bernie Nayman
Arnold Margolese
Frank
Car Thief #1
Joe the Pawnshop Owner
Reviews & comments
thunderball
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- 5999 messages
- 1432 votes
For a blockbuster film with two stars in the lead role, this is quite a contrarian, weird and strange film.
I had missed it every time, but finally put it on last night.
Well, difficult... what can you say about this?
At times it was quite exciting, at times comical, at times a bit long-winded.
I wonder if people knew exactly what TYPE of film was actually being made with this film.
A comedy, thriller, road movie, action lick....?
In itself I found it fun to watch and the entertainment value was quite present,
maaaar..... it was all pretty weird. So you're watching a bit of violent action and it's bland and crazy comic.
I thought Pitt was a bit underplayed, Roberts was doing her well-known thing, but it was Gandolfini who stole the show and delivered the best acting performance.....and that made it all the more bad that his character suddenly - literally and figuratively- stopped. I thought that was a really weak (and in retrospect too easy) plot twist.
Towards the end there was also a surprise cameo from a famous actor, quite unnecessary in itself, but not disturbing.
Let me be lenient (because it was fun in itself):
a seven, or 3.5 stars.
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John Lee Hooker
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- 14934 messages
- 1625 votes
The Mexican contradicted me in almost every facet. I see sadly that there is a market for this but it is not my style and way of doing things. The fleeting editing, the boring dialogues, the stereotypical characters, the exhausting script and a much too long playing time. It should have been over after eighty minutes. Julia Roberts also really started to piss me off with her annoying type. I actually found those sepia flashbacks where that gun was presented as a historical heritage to be the most valuable. Brad Pitt once again plays the sober boy who gets all the trouble thrown at him. All in all pretty weak.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4501 messages
- 3183 votes
Meh.
The Mexican did have some potential and it would have made for an entertaining crime comedy at best. Unfortunately, it all takes too long and you can't really use the good points anywhere. In any case, the tandem James Gandolfini - Julia Roberts is perhaps the nicest plot, but that takes too long and gradually loses its charm.
Brad Pitt is a little too nervous in his role. After seeing a number of movies with Pitt from the 90s fairly recently, I can now really say that I'm not much of a fan of his first, say, 10 years at the top. Since the mid-2000s, that feeling has changed enormously and I think it's much better.
What remains especially are those western flashbacks that are nicely put together in terms of atmosphere - great music too. Ultimately, it's a shame that the plot leads to further weird twists and turns. A film like this should have been kept short, concise and smooth.
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