DESPERADO (1995) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Robert Rodriguez
Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi,
Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo
A mysterious stranger, a sort of modern-day Zorro carrying guns in a guitar case, shows up wherever bad guys need to be wasted, and bullets fly. It's a fact that the best Quentin Tarantino movies made by somebody other than Quentin Tarantino are the ones by Robert Rodriguez, whose characters spend somewhat less time talking and just s much time killing each other. They also almost always feature Danny Trejo, this time playing a guy whose specialty is throwing knives. Another fun bit: the opening scene with Steve Buscemi as a gringo in a Mexican bar, a character you just know is going to die, but somehow doesn't, at least not there in the bar. Quentin himself has an obnoxious cameo as a guy who thinks the beer there tastes like piss.
