The Mexican (DVD) Reviews

The Mexican is a film starring Brad Pitt as Jerry a slacker loser who is asked by mobster friends to go to Mexico and pick up 'The Mexican' a handmade antique pistol. To do this he has to stand up his feisty girlfriend Samantha (Julia Roberts) who is subsequently held by the mob to ensure Jerry comes through with the ...  Read the complete review

Just goes to show, you can have big name actors and still have a movie that just doesn't cut it. There's just too much of nothing, and yet there's still a spark of something missing. Sorry folks, overall - very mediocre! Having said that, I had watched this expecting to be disappointed, and in ways, unlike a lot of other reviewers who watched this ...  Read the complete review

Contrary to popular belief, The Mexican is primarily concerned with the relationship between Julia Roberts and James Gandolfini. The Pitt/Roberts relationship is not the sole focus here, as the two spend the majority of the film apart. Leroy (Gandolfini; The Sopranos, 8mm) kidnaps Samantha (Roberts) to bribe Jerry (Pitt) into giving him ...  Read the complete review

With regards to relationships, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts make an absolutely hilarious pair. The Mexican not only tells us of a story about a missing pistol, but it is about two people that love each other so much that they drive each other crazy. i can't help but smile at some of the crazy rants between the two, mid-arguement. It is more ...  Read the complete review

The Mexican is one of those movies that gives its audience a certain expectation due to its stars. Therefore the pairing of Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt put the film on a hiding to nothing with critics when it appeared not to be the best film of all time. However I'm sure that had this movie been released with lesser stars and less triumph then ...  Read the complete review

Q. What did Speedy Gonzalez say to the Mexican carpet fitter? A. Underlay! Underlay! Sorry, it had to be done.... Mexico. Land of earthquakes. Home of the 1986 World Cup and where Maradona cheated his way to the final (grr). Home of Tacos, Burritos and Salsa. The last breeding ground for cheap labour in the Southern U.S ...  Read the complete review

THE MEXICAN OVERVIEW: The plot of the romantic comedy film “The Mexican” revolves around the characters of Jerry Walbach played by Brad Pitt and his girlfriend Samantha, played by Julia Roberts. Jerry makes his living in the world of crime from which he is trying desperately to break free. The last job he undertook ...  Read the complete review

I thought this film was good but not as good as the hype made out to be, but i still watched it with some laughs anyway. Forced into accepting one final assignment from his boss in the underworld, Jerry(Pitt) naturally chooses to decline the untimely ultimatum posed by his girlfriend Samantha(Robert's). Samantha threatens to ...  Read the complete review

Unlike a lot of other reviewers who watched this movie, I actually came out of it thinking it was BETTER than I had expected. Maybe because I wasn't watching it for the hype, or to drool over Brad Pitt or (if male) Julia Roberts. However, that does not mean that I am rating it 4 or 5 stars. Unfortunately, at best, it is only average - the ...  Read the complete review

Fate shuns a young man named Jerry (Pitt) when he inadvertently causes a very powerful person to go to jail. To repay this debt to Margolese (Hackman), the man he accidentally crossed, Jerry has been participating in some very dangerous activities, albeit with very limited success. Feeling he has paid his debt in full and ready to give up a life ...  Read the complete review

You would think that by teaming Brad Pitt up with Julia Roberts in this movie, that the producers would have an instant winning combination. These two combined ought to have neough charisma to sink a battleship and yet somehow even they can not save this movie from, at best, mediocrity. The Mexican simply isn't a very good movie. ...  Read the complete review

This film took 2 attempts to capture my attention on viewing it. Firstly, I had to pay $9.95 to watch it in my hotel room during an evening on my honeymoon. Due to tiredness and a slow start, the film failed to interest me enough to stay awake. I fell asleep 20 mins into the film. On the plane home, It was one of the in flight movies. This ...  Read the complete review

Featuring two major Hollywood stars usually causes nothing other than Chaos. While the proven tactic of 1 bihg name and one not-so-big-name supporting actor works well almost every time, I can think of few occasions when two mega-stars have 'hit it off' on screen. This is unfortunately a blatant case of the latter! I am not one of ...  Read the complete review

Take two of the sexiest stars in Hollywood, add a sprinkling of scary gangsters, mix in exotic Mexican scenery and you should get one tasty celluloid cake. Right? Wrong. Jerry (Brad Pitt) and Samantha (Julia Roberts) are a couple living in Los Angeles. Samantha has had enough of Brad Pitt?s shady dealings with a gangster and wants him to ...  Read the complete review

.... better now and back to the movie...... The usual way for an actor to steal a film is to over-act shamelessly. In 'The Mexican' however James Gandolfini walks away with the show simply by being the only actor not to showboat. Apparently Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt took big pay cuts to make 'The Mexican' because they liked the ...  Read the complete review

One of the best Comedy films of the year all about a clumsy criminal Jerry Weslaco (Brad Pitt) who has to save his skin and that of his girlfriend Samantha (Julia Roberts). Jerry is a low level member of the mafia who does not have much luck in his day-to-day life. Jerry wants to sever his ties with the mafia but to do this he must do a ...  Read the complete review

The much-hyped teaming of Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts turns out to be not much of a teaming -- the two mega-stars are kept apart for most of the running time of The Mexican. This would probably be a fatal miscalculation even if the rest of the movie weren't deadly dull. But it is, and it's endless. Pitt is a loser with the ...  Read the complete review

Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt star in this faced-paced comedy. The pair are boyfriend and girlfriend - she desperately wants to make it big in Las Vegas, he just wants to be a good boyfriend and get away from the mobsters that have been using him as a delivery boy ever since he accidently put their boss away two years ago. Dragged into yet ...  Read the complete review

Whilst deciding how to take a break from my exams at the minute, apart from writing ops here on Dooyoo, I decided to go to the cinema. I spoke to my friends, and we decided that we would go and see the Mexican. Upon arriving at the cinema and settling into the comfortable chairs at the cinema, and listening to the trailers for the new ...  Read the complete review

Given all the average to poor opinions this film had received I wasn't expecting that much from it but I was gladly prooved wrong. Rather than being too long and not interesting enough I personally thought it remained interesting throughout and despite a fairly poor start it was well worth the watch. --Storyline-- The storyline ...  Read the complete review