Rent Desperado (1995)
3.7 of 5 from 83 ratings
1h 40min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A shadowy figure stalks the Mexican underworld, travelling from town to town with only a guitar case in hand; however, what El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) has on his mind isn't music, but merciless vengeance. With enough bullets up his sleeves for every bandito in his path, the guitar-playing gunslinger has his sights firmly set on taking down a powerful drug lord (Joaquim de Almeida), but only the love of a local bookstore owner (Salma Hayek) will help the Mariachi get out of town alive.
- Actors:
- Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim De Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Carlos Gómez, Quentin Tarantino, Tito Larriva, Angel Aviles, Danny Trejo, Abraham Verduzco, Carlos Gallardo, Albert Michel Jr., David Alvarado, Angela Lanza, Mike Moroff, Robert Arevalo, Gerardo Moscoso, Peter Marquardt, Consuelo Gómez
- Directors:
- Robert Rodriguez
- Producers:
- Robert Rodriguez, Bill Borden
- Writers:
- Robert Rodriguez
- Aka:
- Pistolero / El Mariachi 2
- Studio:
- Sony
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- New waves of Latin American Cinema, Top 10 Bookshop Scenes, Top Films, What to watch by country
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/08/2024
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- Dubbed, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
- Lean and Mean, a newly filmed interview with Rodriguez
- Shoot Like Crazy, a newly filmed interview with producer Bill Borden
- Kill Count, a newly filmed interview with stunt coordinator Steve Davison
- Lock and Load, a newly filmed interview with special effects coordinator Bob Shelley
- Game Changer, a newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid)
- Ten More Minutes: Anatomy of a Shootout, an archive featurette narrated by Rodriguez
- Textless opening ("Morena de mi Corazón")
- Theatrical trailers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/08/2024
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- Dubbed, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
- Lean and Mean, a newly filmed interview with Rodriguez
- Shoot Like Crazy, a newly filmed interview with producer Bill Borden
- Kill Count, a newly filmed interview with stunt coordinator Steve Davison
- Lock and Load, a newly filmed interview with special effects coordinator Bob Shelley
- Game Changer, a newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid)
- Ten More Minutes: Anatomy of a Shootout, an archive featurette narrated by Rodriguez
- Textless opening ("Morena de mi Corazón")
- Theatrical trailers
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Reviews (2) of Desperado
Tongue in Cheek Shoot out movie - Desperado review by CD
I did not enjoy this film, although it has some good actors, a good music score and and an interesting Mexican small town locale. The amount of shooting and violence totally overwhelms anything else and it becomes a comic book gangster movie. Probably of interest to Quentin Tarantino fans, but not one for me.
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Contemporary Western - Great Action - Desperado review by GI
Whilst this a sequel to director Robert Rodriguez' low budget 1992 feature El Mariachi it is more or less a stand alone film, and given a bigger budget (albeit still small by many standards) and a more prestigious cast it sits as a great and highly entertaining contemporary action film. The stylish influence of Rodriguez friend and mentor, Quentin Tarantino, is obvious from the get go and Tarantino himself has an amusing cameo as a drug courier. This is set in a Mexican border town ruled over by a big time drug dealer, Bucho (Joaquim de Almeida) and his business is run from a seedy bar. He and his thugs hear rumours of a strange travelling guitar player who hunts down and kills drug gangs but they believe its just a myth put about by locals. But then a mysterious stranger turns up (Antonio Banderas), with a guitar case full of weapons and he's looking for Bucho. Delightfully bloody, over the top action set pieces and heavily influenced by spaghetti westerns this is a riot from the outset, with a great soundtrack, some fantastic support from Steve Buscemi and Salma Hayek and a script that could've been written by Tarantino although it's Rodriguez work. Certainly fans of QT will love this.
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