GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Paul J. Nemecek The phrase "Mexican standoff" refers to a situation in which people have guns pointed at each other and everyone is afraid to make a move for fear of getting shot. There are a couple of scenes in The Mexican that actually involve Mexican standoffs. I think the image works as a description for the movie as a whole--lots of firepower but nothing really happens.Brad Pitt plays a loser whose specialties seems to be learned helplessness and serious ineptitude. Julia Roberts plays his sometimes cute, but usually shrill, girlfriend. The Mexican is a pistol that Pitt must recover in Mexico so as to be free from the gangsters who use him as a gopher. Roberts threatens to leave him if he goes. From this point on the plot is fairly predictable (think Romancing the Stone meets The Three Stooges in Tijuana).There are some nice touches in this film, but the nice touches are pretty offbeat. For example, James Gandolfini steals the show as a sensitive gay hit man who discovers love along the way. There are also some nice touches in the multiple versions of the legend of the pistol that remind one of Kurosawa's Rashomon.But the occasional nice touch does not translate into a good movie. There are three great actors wasted in this muddled mess, and the story lacks creativity. Roberts and Pitt turn in some interesting over-the-top performances, but there is not much chemistry between them. In fact, the real chemistry was between Gandolfini (the gay hit man) and Roberts. There could have been an interesting movie if the sub-plot had been the major plot. This part of the story brings out the part of Roberts that audiences have come to expect. Alas, the shrieking and shrill Roberts dominates in this film, and this character becomes tiresome very quickly. In the end, the story degenerates into ethnic stereotypes and tinseltown cliches and ends up being much ado about nothing. For Julia's sake, let's hope the members of the Motion Picture Academy cast their ballots before seeing her in this film. Skip The Mexican, pop your own popcorn, and curl up with the videotape of Notting Hill.

kira02bit "Lovable" loser Brad Pitt is forced by gangsters to head south of the border to retrieve a cursed antique gun known as "The Mexican," while hit-man James Gandolfini kidnaps Pitt's girlfriend Julia Roberts for insurance.The Mexican, some unholy combination of romantic comedy, edgy violence, and Quentin Tarantino-esque tomfoolery succeeds at none of these things, despite featuring Pitt and Roberts at the height of their popularity. In fact, the film is so tonally uneven, muddled and unpleasant to watch that it is impossible to ascertain what attracted these performers to it.Director Gore Verbinski has neither the light touch or off-beat flare to make anything we see take flight...unless it is the viewer from the theater. Full disclosure, I nearly made it to the end of this turkey before my party finally threw in the towel and left.Much of the problem with the film is that it seems to believe that we have some sympathy for the Pitt and Roberts characters and are rooting for them to safely be reunited. Alas, we don't. When we first meet them, Pitt is a pathetic pantywaist being bullied by his mob acquaintances and Roberts, and Roberts is light years beyond shrill in an atypically charmless performance. Their opening scenes are basically Roberts shrieking at Pitt like a nagging fishwife and Pitt stomping around in a petulant put-upon snit. We are glad when they separate (although even singularly they are unpleasant company) and actually do NOT wish for them to reunite safely. Your film has a major problem when the central couple is so off-putting that you hope they never reunite.Worse, the film's badly directed incidences of pseudo-slapstick give way to very brutal (and very real) passages of unwelcome violence that seem to come from another film entirely.The passages with Roberts and Gandolfini are near excruciating because she simply won't shut up and keeps yammering. Gandolfini, The Sopranos over-feted one-trick-pony, pretty much plays Tony Soprano for the umpteenth time...only this time, he is gay. Isn't that hilarious? A gay hit-man with all the mannerisms of Tony Soprano. That is about as far as the ingenuity in this mess goes. And truthfully, once you see what the film has in store for Gandolfini and the hapless romantic foil that Roberts hooks him up with, it especially feels like a waste of time.Truthfully, this is one of the most aggravating, unpleasant and appalling films to come down the pike in decades. It succeeds at nothing it attempts and manages to tarnish the careers of its stars in the process. I hope that both Pitt and Roberts have paid back on whatever bet they lost because I cannot imagine any other reason for their inclusion in this debacle.

SnoopyStyle Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) has to bring back a pistol called 'The Mexican' with a guy back from Mexico as his next job for the mob. His girlfriend Samantha Barzel (Julia Roberts) is sick of his mob jobs. He decides to go with the mob. Only Samantha gets kidnapped, and Jerry has a lot of difficulties delivering the cursed gun.I think they're suppose to be white trash characters. They're way too pretty. Having these two A-listers may not be the right move. And it doesn't quite work as a comedy. Both Pitt and Roberts try very hard to be wacky. Pitt especially try hard to be stupid. The story is idiosyncratic wallowing in its quirkiness. None of it is particularly funny. However James Gandolfini does take an interesting turn as the kidnapper.

Desertman84 The Mexican is a romantic comedy film that features Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts together with James Gandolfini,J. K. Simmons and an uncredited Gene Hackman.The screenplay has a plot that is an unusual mixture of romantic comedy and road movie.It was originally intended to be filmed as an independent production without major motion picture stars, but Roberts and Pitt, who had for some time been looking for a project they could do together, learned about it and decided to make it. It was directed by Gore Verbinski.In the story,a clumsy criminal is put in a position where he not only has to save his own skin, but that of his girlfriend in this comedy with strong undercurrents of romance. Jerry Welbach is a low-level Mafia "mechanic" whose ineptitude is countered by frequent bursts of dumb luck. Jerry's girlfriend Samantha wants him to get out of the business, and after his latest blunder lands capo Arnold Margolese in jail, so does mid-level crime kingpin Bernie Nayman. But Bernie insists that Jerry do one last errand for the mob before they let him find employment elsewhere -- he has to go to Mexico and recover a rare and very valuable pistol, which is said to be cursed. While Samantha objects to Jerry taking the assignment, he isn't in much of a position to argue; Jerry heads south of the border, while Samantha, in a huff, sets out for Las Vegas. Once in Mexico, Jerry finds the pistol easily enough, but making his way back to the States proves to be an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile, Jerry's superiors want insurance that he'll return with the goods, so they hire Leroy, a hit-man, to kidnap Samantha and hold her hostage until Jerry comes back. However, Samantha and Leroy quickly strike up a friendship, and she soon learns the gunman has a sensitive side he doesn't show to the world -- along with a few other secrets. The Mexican marked the first screen pairing for mega-stars Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt -- though, given the film's narrative arc, they play only a handful of scenes together.That made it less interesting just like the story - which was overbearing and boring at the same time.The comedy did not provide too many laughs and the romance between Jerry and Samantha was least interesting.Despite of the presence of the mega-stars,this is one movie that I mildly recommend as it falls short in entertainment.