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Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Directed by Robert Rodriguez. With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke. Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
- Robert Rodriguez
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (also known as Desperado 2) is a 2003 American neo-Western action film written, directed, produced, photographed, scored, and edited by Robert Rodriguez. It is the sequel to Desperado (1995) and the third and final installment in the Mexico Trilogy.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico is sometimes enjoyable to watch but it gets a little cheesy and idiotic. Haunted and scarred by tragedy, El Mariachi has retreated into a life of isolation. He is forced out of hiding when Sands, a corrupt CIA agent, recruits the reclusive hero to sabotage an assassination plot against the president of Mexico, which ...
Sep 12, 2003 · 66% Tomatometer 168 Reviews 64% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings Return of the mythic guitar-slinging hero, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), in the final installment of the Mariachi/Desperado ...
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- Robert Rodriguez
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- Antonio Banderas
What's the Story? ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO is the third in director Robert Rodriguez's series that began with the $7000 El Mariachi and continued with the quasi-remake/sequel Desperado . If I had to explain the story, it would be something like this: Everyone shoots everyone else outdoors.
- Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek
- Robert Rodriguez
- Columbia Tristar
The Mexico Trilogy is a series of films: El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, all written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez, beginning in 1992 and ending in 2003 and distributed by Columbia Tristar which tell the continuing story of the movies' main character, "El Mariachi".
Sep 12, 2003 · Once Upon a Time in Mexico. After Robert Rodriguez made his $7,000 first film "El Mariachi" (1992) and his $3 million "Desperado" (1995), Quentin Tarantino told him they were the Mexican equivalent of Sergio Leone's first two spaghetti Westerns.
