movie review - The Mexican
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Vancouver, 2001.10.20
The Mexican is a tale about an antique Mexican pistol and the pack of thugs and losers who try to obtain it once it turns up. Brad Pitt plays yer loser, Julia Roberts plays his common-law-wife, and James Gand*lfini plays one of the thugs.
This was far more entertaining than I'd expected. It was by now means a great movie, but it was actually well worth watching.
It has a plot, it has formulaic Mexican scenes, and it has plenty of gunplay. This is the first Julia Roberts movie I've seen in a *long* time in which she was bearable. She overacted as usual, but with the general tone of the movie, it worked. A bit of an underperformance from Pitt, this time round.
Recommended.