2001 · action · comedy · crime
The Mexican
Directed by Gore Verbinski2h 3m2001
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Our read: The Mexican (2001) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- tender
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