There is a lot of fun to be had with this film, despite it’s relatively uneven nature.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 27, 2024

As a dark comedy it has a somewhat appealing visual style, but its journey across the Mexican wasteland becomes downright dull and it falls to the ground like a stray bullet. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 10, 2023

Gene Hackman holds the responsibility of conveying the entire history of a character, the entire core of who this man is, in a single scene. He manages it without breaking a sweat.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 22, 2022

The Mexican of the title is actually a gun, not a person, which seems as instructive as any other detail of what might be wrong with not only this film but with the whole Hollywood project.

| Feb 25, 2020

The Mexican is sporadically entertaining. It works when Gandolfini is on screen; when he leaves, he takes the movie with him.

| Oct 25, 2018

Brad and Julia, of course, look great. Buy the poster; skip the movie.

| Mar 6, 2018

From the word go, the film is almost begging to be hailed as 'quirky' and 'offbeat'. It's ironic, but only in a gentle way that hovers between laidback and imperceptible.

| Jan 30, 2018

An interesting mess for older teens and up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2009

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

| Original Score: C | Mar 11, 2008

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.

| Original Score: C | Jul 17, 2007

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Habla usted mediocre movie?

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 6, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 6, 2004

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

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 23, 2004

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

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

| Feb 13, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003