The Mexican: Critic Reviews

An amiable reminder that not all screen laughter has to spring from gross-out sight gags involving bodily orifices, appendages and effluvia.

It's tough to believe anyone could read this script and fail to realize the movie wouldn't end up going anywhere.

This is not your typical star vehicle.

At no point do Jerry and Samantha seem romantically connected at all.

Intermittently appealing, fundamentally dysfunctional.

One of those movies you go to see at 7 p.m., look at your watch three hours later and see that it says 7:45.

Promises a road movie of blissful comic romance and delivers a series of dramatic dead ends.

An interesting mess for older teens and up.

It just sits there, doing nothing that a competent made-for-cable movie with C-list stars couldn't do.

First pairing of Hollywood's beloved stars Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts is a mixed blessing in this mishmash of a movie, in which different genres and styles strenuously compete for our attention.

The Mexican coasts along throwing at us double-agent/double-crossings intrigue, witty one-liners, and some evocative scenery.

Habla usted mediocre movie?

The Mexican fails because the entire movie changes its tone from one moment to the next.

I left hoping that I never see either of them again in anything.

Gandolfini is especially good as the hitman with a heart of gold.

The final concern for the audience is not how the film will end (you won't care), but when?

...all very breezy and bright, and perhaps just a little too facile.

The main problem with the movie has to do with several jolting moments of violence.

The Mexican" turns violent in the last half hour, betraying the sense of fun.

directed by Gore Verbinski, whose previous movie "Mousehunt" was a very strange piece of family entertainment. "The Mexican" is a very strange piece of adult entertainment ... sure to confound anyone looking for "Runaway Bride, Part II."

Julia Roberts, una vez mas demuestra que tiene mucha madera para la comedia.

Even the film’s fatuous advertising blurb (“Love with the safety off”) combines romance and firearms, gunplay and foreplay.

cinematographer Dariusz Wolski's location shots of the beautiful mountain town of Real de Catorce were spectacular.

...there has been a great deal of thought and effort put into this film, and it shows.

The real surprise here are the scenes between Roberts and Gandolfini.