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Sex and travel, minus the sex. Almost.
By Joe De Matteo
SUPER
This is a film I purposely stayed away from.
Don’t ask me why, but I didn’t think I would
like it. Man, was I wrong.
I
can say this. The look of the film to me like
it would be dumb. Both Julia Roberts and Brad
Pitt have made very commercial films, good
films, but ones that I felt were too
superficial. James Ganldolfini, another good
actor, I keep at arms length. He’s a TV star,
and that has negative connotation for me: I hate
almost all TV.
The Mexican is a film that has a magic to it.
It developed that mysterious something that many
films, in spite of a worthy story, cast and
director, never attain. They are the films you
run to see because so-and-so and so-and-so have
teamed up for another wonderful frolic…that
falls way short of expectations. And when you
examine them, you see that everyone tried hard,
the story was good, the location was perfect,
but the magic just didn’t happen.
Writer J. H. Wyman and Director Gore Verbinski,
found a place in Mexico, built a little town to
fit their needs, hired a bunch of Mexican
actors, got Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James
Gandolfini and J. K. Simmons. Hey, the mob-boss,
Margolese, who is eluded to through out the
story, but only appears at the end is none other
than Gene Hackman: Great cast.
But the story is a little thin, one might
think. A screw up young guy with a girl friend
who’s always fighting with him, has to do “one
last job” and go down to Mexico, pick up an old
gun and bring it back to California. You’re set
up from the start to know that this simple task
is going to turn into a convoluted circus.
Hey, now I remember why I avoided the film in
the first place. It sounded stupid. You can
picture someone running into someone else’s
office screaming, “I’ve got a great idea! Lets
get a great cast and put them into a stupid
situation.” Two years later the someone whose
office got run into, the guy that the proposal
was made to, is now wishing he’d said, “Let’s
not.”
The gods that look down on Hollywood productions
must have conspired to weave a magic thread
through out The Mexican. It’s a fun movie that
is very rewatchable. Its humor is odd at times,
but always funny, and all the bad luck pieces of
the story turn out a happy ending.
My
only problem with the DVD is that I wish they
had a way you could include some of the deleted
scenes. Or better yet, I’d like Gore Verbinski
to put out an extended version director’s cut
DVD. I’d buy that one, too!
Add this one to your DVD collection.
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