Once Upon A Time In Mexico (DVD 2004)

It was my fella's birthday and he's a massive fan of El Mariachi and Desperados. Would you believe he hadn't seen this movie!? So anyway, we watched it, then we watched all the special features and we absolutely loved it!! Great film, excellent quality from the seller and an all round perfect gift :-)

a very good dvd as it stars antonio banderas and johnny depp can you get any better than that. i also enjoy that antonio banderas plays a musician and there are lots of guns.

I bought this DVD on ebay for 99p!!! bargain.
Bit of a 'mad' film, good guys verses bad guys (I think!) although is hard to tell who is who! Even the detective (Johnny Depp) gets his come-uppance! Alot of gun shooting and running around in this bizarre plot which does get alittle confusing. Great settings, costumes and sound track makes this unusual film one to watch.

It's an unusual independent film, with Johnny Depp playing the pants off his role. It is a little hard to follow in places because it reverts to subtitles frequently, byt nevertheless, this does not distract from a avery admirable film. Far away from the "Hollywood" usual offering this is an intricately woven story with believeable characters in what one can only describe as the real Mexico. Antonio Banderas is equally brilliant, just don't ever order pork and beans in Mexico is all I can say. Although the ending is not quite as you would expect, it believable breaks the standard formula of a happy ending, which makes it all the more watchable. I just love the represntation of Mexico from the bygone era, and the music serves the film well. Recommended, but be patient with the subtitles, not something that bothers or detracts from a film for me, but not everyone likes them. If you are a Johnny Depp/Antonion Banderas fan then this is definitely one to see.

wow! this film is quite strange but very good throughout.sound track is exellent [thats why we brought it].good perfomance by all cast.a bit blood thirsty so beware !

The third film in the Mariachi trilogy manages the impossible and outdoes Desperado in the excessively silly stakes. This is a mess of a film; an entertaining one, but a mess all the same. If Desperado had absolutely no plot to speak of, this almost has too much, with characters and sub-plots thrown about, forgotten, then dragged up again out of the blue. I didn't really know what was going on from start to finish, except that characters wanted other characters dead. Cue an awful lot of action and gunplay, most of which is highly enjoyable. A gunfight that moves onto a motorbike chase around two-thirds in is superb, over the top and breathlessly staged.

Excellent film,I've never seen it but bought it for my daughters who are huge fans of Johnny Depp, Enrique Inglesias and Antonio Banderas. Made them very happy!!!

Love the fact that they have continued the man walks into a bar theme - this time Salma Hayek gets in on the act. Antonio Banderas is excellent in this; Depp also plays a very convincing role. If anything, this is even more over the top, non-stop action than "Desperado" - maximum body-count and stylish as hell. Cars get blown up left, right and centre to an up-beat soundtrack.

The plot is a little more complicated than last time - corrupt generals, an assassination attempt on the president plus a coup on the Mexican Day of the Dead. Queue lots of people in skeleton masks running around shooting soldiers, soldiers shooting other soldiers and the general public; rocket launchers, tanks and lots of pyrotechnics.

In the end, Banderas & co save the day and the baddies get their just deserts.

"Once upon a Time" does not take itself too seriously; the humour complements the violence and is quite tongue in cheek.

Particularly good after a bad day at work!

Anything that has Johnny Depp in it is going to be worth watching. There is no huge storyline but definately worth watching - even if it's just for Johnny!! I watched it on TV first recently and decided I had to buy a copy of the film too. So I did and have watched it many times already.

no complaints really.. excellent condition, price, delivery rate.. amazing film also.. can't go wrong with Rodriguez.. and the strange thing is i don't like action films.. but this is just amazing.. i'm a university media student and am really really picky with my films but this is just excellent..

cheers

not an excellent film by a long shot.. but good fun all the same.. Banderas and Depp shine and there are some funny moments. Enrique Iglesias "acting" is as wooden as the Mariachi's guitars but he has little to say and slots into place ok.. an enjoyable film to watch with friends and a bottle of wine

In the arena there is bunch of fine actors playing the fools with their guns. The result is a cocktail of fine performances with cheap bloody wrangles - if good actors have ever been wasted, it’s here.

Oh, but there is a scrip with an intricate plot, the FBI, CIA, a revolution, a rotten general and all that, but it’s all seen through the camera of Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids), so nothing is to be taken seriously, nothing at all - and say, even though a bit cheap, it’s funny enough. However, it’s gratuitously cruel and unnecessary bloody at time (probably Tarantino’s touch).

So, pistoleros, tequila, and more dead than you can count. If you take it as a Mexican Carnival, you’ll enjoy it.

I loved this film it was funny, explosive and violent. I brought it because the gorgeous Johnny Depp was in it and he was brill at playing Sands, such a funny and clever character. This is not one of Johnnys best film but is definatly worth seeing if you are a fan or have seen the other two films in this trilogy. Note: Johnny is only in this film, the last of the series.

Cool movie, full fo action and lots of gun slinging. Worth a watch just for Johnny Depp's performance himself