The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (DVD) Reviews

Ranch hand Pete Perkins is not a happy man. His best friend and fellow ranch hand, the Melquiades Estrada of the title, has been shot dead by a trigger happy border patrol officer, Mike Norton. Now he wants revenge, but Norton's boss would rather brush the whole thing under the carpet. Perkins therefore decides to take things into his own hands ...

My husband put this on our DVD rental list and at first I was a bit dubious about it. I had only heard fleeting things about the film and for the life of me I couldn't remember whether it was good or bad so I didn't know wha to expect really. I have to admit that I was more than pleasantly surprised. The 2005 The Three Burials of ...

Every movie needs a twist. If the film is so-so, ambles on, and then delivers a neat and unexpected twist to round it off then it can be saved, even sneak into the good category, as is the case here. This classy and observant drama delivered that gentle subtle twist when required, topping off an interesting and different kind of film from ...

Even though the high point of the Texan frontier, cowboys, Mexicans, corrupt sheriffs and deputies, and revenge was over a hundred years ago, ostensibily it still very much exists today. That same barren desert dividing Mexico and Texas is still there, as undeveloped as it was back in the time of the bounty hunters. Tommy Lee Jones raises this ...

Please note this is a film only review and makes no mention of DVD format extras. At a time when the world as at it most mistrusting in a cross cultural sense, with one secular or religious group suspiciously eying and pointing fingers at the next, this film, in many ways is well timed and very relevant. But with the focus on the ...