Review - El Mariachi 3

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (third part of Rodriguez's El Mariachi trilogy)

Generally:
I think this is probably the strongest of the trilogy, El Mariachi being good considering it was made for about 2.5 Pesos, and Desperado being great, if a bit in love with itself. Better written than the previous two. Better direction. Just better.

Good bits:
'Are you a Mexican, or a Mexi-can't?'.
Johnny Depp; it's wrong that I should like this guy's work so much without being a gushing teenage girl with a crush.
Rubén Blades' FBI agent.
The best pork in Mexico.

Bad bits:
At times follows a checklist of things directly transplanted from Desperado. Dead girlfriend[9]: check. Gun-toting fellow mariachi: check. Early scene with guy in bar describing one of el Mariachi's shoot-outs: check.

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[9] Don't worry, that's not too much of a spoiler.