The story has good beats and good ideas, but some of it gets lost in there being too many characters and too much going on all at once. The direction works, the writing mostly works, but there is too much here...

| Sep 14, 2024

Couldn’t be more lightweight, but heaviness was never the point or the promise of these movies.

| Original Score: B | Sep 19, 2022

Robert Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy comes to a close with this disastrously underwhelming installment...

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2020

Replay a joke too often and the impact is gone, and Rodriguez's overuse of old movie riffs and smirking brutality is a joke that goes on for far too long.

| Jan 29, 2020

Rodriguez understands how superficial his film really is, and uses humor to turn that flaw into an advantage.

| Nov 16, 2019

A succession of set pieces, however vivid and colourful will not alone make a coherent movie. And this is far from coherent. Colourful, but nuts.

| Jan 11, 2018

Still loaded with action and wonderful characters, but this is the least of the three pictures.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 16, 2011

Like an R-rated, violent Roadrunner cartoon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

...a cartoonish action movie that entertains without garnering empathy for any of its characters, with the exception of Ruben Blades' Jorge.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 13, 2009

Would be such a good movie, were it not so utterly ridiculous and laden with sheer stupidity and nonsense...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 5, 2005

Occasionally hits heights worthy of its Sergio Leone-inspired title ... but its manic invention exhausts more than enthralls.

| Jan 21, 2005

To be fair, Rodriguez's wicked dialogue does elicit some laughs amongst the on-screen carnage.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Oct 14, 2004

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 7, 2004

A splendid cast and spectacular orgies of carnage combine to produce a surprisingly creaky, labored, and boring movie.

| Sep 23, 2004