Once Upon a Time in Mexico

14 September 2003. Johnny Depp actually takes this movie with his odd rogue CIA character using a serio-comic approach to his job while Salma Hayek plays an ancillary role and Antonio Banderas seems to get the opportunity to violently (though not graphically) pulverize his victims with revenge. A convoluted, slow evolving plot of revenge, this movie has dramatic killing scenes and a twist towards the end make this movie a somewhat tedious though intelligent action movie with artwork. This is a edgy, hard-knifed movie that seems to emphasize violence in a nasty and hard way that doesn't glorify its victims demise. A competent movie of intrigue and death with a good dose of wry humor thrown in. Seven out of Ten Stars