Synopsis
Director Robert Rodriguez picks up where his successful independent debut El Mariachi left off with this slam-bang South of the Border action saga. Bucho (Joaquim DeAlmeida) is a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Bucho and his men make the mistake of angering El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), a former musician who now carries an arsenal in his guitar case. Bucho was responsible for the death of El Mariachi's girlfriend and put a bullet through his fretting hand, making him unable to play the guitar. Bent on revenge, the musician-turned-killing machine arrives in town to put Bucho out of business, though he finds few allies except for Carolina (Salma Hayek), who runs a bookstore that doesn't seem to attract many readers. Desperado features supporting performances from Cheech Marin as a cynical bartender, Steve Buscemi as the cantina patron who sets up the story, and Quentin Tarantino as a man with a really terrible joke to tell.
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Sequel to "Desperado" a possibility
Director Robert Rodriguez and his favorite leading man Antonio Banderas, both hot off the hit film Spy Kids, will reteam for Once Upon a Time in Mexico for Dimension Films. Continuing the trilogy that began with Rodriguez's El Mariachi and Desperado, the new film is loosely based on the spaghetti Western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Rodriguez told the Hollywood Reporter that he will return to a more "down and dirty, more experimental style of shooting" as he displayed in the first film El Mariachi. Quentin Tarantino and Salma Hayek are in talks to reprise their roles, with Mickey Rourke also joining the cast.