El Mariachi details
| Formats: | 18 DVD, LOVEFiLM Instant |
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| Starring: | Carlos Gallardo, Peter Marquardt, Jaime de Hoyos, Consuelo Gómez |
| Director: | Robert Rodriguez |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Studio: | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Collections: | All-Out Action, Decades: 90s, Imposters, Tarantino & Rodriguez, TFI Friday, TFI Friday! |
| Title | Runtime | Certificate | |
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El Mariachi |
1hr 18 mins | 18 |
LOVEFiLM Instant Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 18 minutes |
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| Rental release: | To be confirmed |
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Rodriguez does it again!!
By a customer from London, England , 04 Aug 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Before getting this DVD, I had already had the benefit of watching 'Desperado' and I already thought it as a wonderful film. I had heard about 'El Mariachi', but had heard different stories. The first being that 'El Mariachi' was made on a majorly small budget and that 'Desperado' was just a remake, and the second was that it was the first of a trilogy, with 'Desperado' as the sequel and 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico' as the final part. I haven't yet seen 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico' so I don't know if it's totally true, but the others are related.
The story is the stuff of pulp novels, old TV Westerns and Victorian melodrama. The mariachi is a harmless romantic who only wants to sing, but people start shooting at him. He defends himself, while trying to figure out why he is the center of attention. A sexy barmaid named Domino (Consuelo Gomez) believes his story and befriends him, and before long they are falling in love, which adds another complication: Domino is the object of the local warlord's unrequited lust, and the warlord's men have confused the mariachi with the other man in black.
'El Mariachi' is already gathering a legend around it, about how Rodriguez sold his body to medical science to raise money to buy film, and wrote the screenplay while working as a guinea pig for cholesterol medication.
'Desperado' is an obvious sequel, and obviously budgeted alot better, but the film hasn't quite got the charm of the first. The dark humour isn't quite as slick, but Rodriguez manages to pull it off well.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(47)very average film
By a customer from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales , 03 Mar 2012any overly positive reviews will be from hipsters who wanna sound cool liking such a low budget movie, in truth this is all very, very average- Was this review helpful to you?
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A waste of time
By Fugazi (35 reviews) from Hitchin , 23 Feb 2012What a crock! To tell the truth, I feel robbed. The film has the commentary running over the top, which you can't seem to switch off at all, after trying a whole variety of settings, I gave it up as a bad job! There's a half an hour of my life I won't get back :-(- Was this review helpful to you?
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The best one of the Mexico Trilogy. Watch it with subtitles though.
By Mois (25 reviews) , 26 Dec 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
This is such a wonderful film. Low budget. Do not expect it to be a 'special effects' kind of film. The plot is very simple.
The humour in it is subtle. It's a shame for English-only speakers if they expected to watch the movie in dubbed English, since so many have stated that they could not get rid of the commentaries, but I personally think some of the charm of the original track would be lost in the process anyway. I would say that is better to try to watch it with subtitles, since this is an action film and there's not so much dialogue in it as it is.
Rodriguez also made 'Desperado' in English, as a sequel for this film, but I still think this movie gives the sequels a run for their money for $6 million less.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Commentary soundtrack only
By a customer , 20 Nov 2011As others have mentioned it's impossible to watch this dvd in English. If you accept English from the menu (which is the default option anyway) you get ONLY the director's commentary combined with the visuals. You can't watch the film with it's actual soundtrack. I don't know why the disc was set up this way but if you are hoping to watch this movie in English as I was you will be disapponted- Was this review helpful to you?
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Terrible show
By a customer , 05 May 2011I found this film to be terrible poor quality, bad acting was unable to get rid of commentary sound. Film was apparrently made for 10,000 dollars and it showed.- Was this review helpful to you?
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