Review of The Mexican

The Mexican (2001)
8/10
So, so
22 August 2001
I must admit that I felt entertained by the movie, though after 90 or 100 minutes I started to feel slightly bored. Thinking a little about it, I must say that it is rather a bad than a good movie.

The movie apparantly tries to revive the style of the early Tarantino movies, but it is much weaker.

There are simply no intriguing plot twists, Jerry is just running after the gun until at some point you don't care anymore how the movie will end. How hard you try, you won't find out why all these people were after the gun, especially since most of them were working for Margoles. Most of the characters are pale and undistinguished. Only the Leroy-Winston character and his relation with Samantha was sufficiently absurd and of some interest, though also not highly original.

Probably the makers ripped off quite a lot of their jokes from other movies. Even the old Warner Looney Tunes were used, namely, Jerry waits at the apparantly empty crossing in the desert and when he finally decides to cross he is almost hit by a (skeleton of a) truck.

In the good old times, the truck would have run over him.
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