[A] satisfying banquet of pulp filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2021

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Rodriguez's second feature may be a rambling, derivative exercise in gratuitous violence, but its determination to proceed as if the word 'restraint' never existed makes for gleeful entertainment.

| Jan 26, 2006

Mr. Rodriguez may be good enough to make a film about anything, but Desperado would collapse if its characters had to do anything but play with guns.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2003

What Rodriguez has essentially done in Desperado is make a slicker, more expensive copy of what came before. And what looked promising for $7,000 looks tiresome for a whole lot more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2002

The routine gets tiresome for the Mariachi, and for the audience, too, after about an hour.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Desperado is best when Rodriguez lets his playful side cut through the blare of a born filmmaker indulging his first chance at high-end Hollywood fireworks.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

In this movie, words and actions speak equally loudly.

| Jan 1, 2000

Desperado, which is nothing but set pieces, snoozes between its scenes of carnage.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

On the whole, watching the film is about as much fun as sitting on a cactus.

| Jan 1, 2000

What happens looks terrific. Now if [Rodriguez] can harness that technical facility to a screenplay that's more story than setup, he might really have something.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's big, it's daft, but Desperado is confident and hugely entertaining filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A bust-a-gut film experience that reveals Rodriguez as both a stylist versed in the mechanics of popular storytelling and a maverick whose ingenuity guides him along a singular path.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Aug 25, 1995