| DreamWorks Distribution | Release Date: March 2, 2001 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
10
Mixed:
15
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews
Surprisingly enjoyable.
For a Hollywood studio movie, you see, The Mexican is remarkably strange and eccentric with a plot like a wrinkled bed sheet and a black comic sensibility that consistently swerves away from the cliches that have been established in this Age of Tarantino.
This violently comic caper has some spunky charm going for it -- but has a lot of self-consciously hip, studied wackiness going against it.
Isolated offbeat moments aside, The Mexican mostly fires blanks.
Gandolfini, who skillfully fleshes out what's written as a one-joke character, comes close to pilfering The Mexican from the stars. Under the circumstances, that's not a huge accomplishment.
The Mexican is its own worst enemy, consistently undermining its best efforts. The result is an over-long series of quirks, a film that's far less than the sum of its often amusing and ingenious parts.
Can't lift the double curse of too little genuine action, as opposed to quixotic events, and too many fancy words.
A tired, confused romantic comedy/noir thriller with all the suspense of an infomercial. Buy the poster; skip the movie.
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