Robert Rodriguez, on the DVD, has a special feature about how to cook puerco pibli or something like that and it is fascinating. Like this film, there's a lot of spicy ingredients in it, and clearly a lot of things added for flair.
I'm just thinking aloud though: Why toss in the unnecessary grease? The movie can do without the occasional character who is the "celebrity who can't act", namely: Eva Mendes and Enrique Igleisias. Everybody else is really good.
Plus, I'm pretty sure Johnny Depp has a second career somewhere in him as a comedian!
Like a lot of Rodriguez's work, we got to separate the ingredients and rate 'em:
(a) Story - passable - 6 out of 10 (b) Acting - except for afore-mentioned greasy under-talented actors, good, but I gotta take points away for Mendes and Iglesias so, 8 out of 10 (c) Editing - pretty darn good - 9 out of 10 (d) Special effects - not bad for a low budget flick - 8.5 out of 10 (e) Music - nothing we ain't heard before - 5 out of 10 (f) Sets - serviceable but a lot better than before, give this man a budget! - 7 out of 10
Works out to around 7-ish out of 10
I'm just thinking aloud though: Why toss in the unnecessary grease? The movie can do without the occasional character who is the "celebrity who can't act", namely: Eva Mendes and Enrique Igleisias. Everybody else is really good.
Plus, I'm pretty sure Johnny Depp has a second career somewhere in him as a comedian!
Like a lot of Rodriguez's work, we got to separate the ingredients and rate 'em:
(a) Story - passable - 6 out of 10 (b) Acting - except for afore-mentioned greasy under-talented actors, good, but I gotta take points away for Mendes and Iglesias so, 8 out of 10 (c) Editing - pretty darn good - 9 out of 10 (d) Special effects - not bad for a low budget flick - 8.5 out of 10 (e) Music - nothing we ain't heard before - 5 out of 10 (f) Sets - serviceable but a lot better than before, give this man a budget! - 7 out of 10
Works out to around 7-ish out of 10