A different kind of drama, romance and excitement in a story about a mysterious guitar player trying to avenge the men who killed his girlfriend in mysterious circumstances. During this journey of the man, while seeking justice, he faces a group of murderers and criminals who spread everywhere. After long trouble and a sense of tension and anxiety, but he may find a romantic mystery was not found before
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.
Desperado, which is nothing but set pieces, snoozes between its scenes of carnage.
EmanuelLevy.Com
June 20, 2006
A slicker, more expensive version than El Mariach, except that what was promising and charming for $7,000 now looks tiresome and repetitious for $7 million
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.
Reno Gazette-Journal
September 26, 2003
Desperado has merit as a guilty pleasure, but when the violence and action grow tiresome, the film has nothing to hang its hat on.
TV Guide
March 13, 2007
Rodriguez's follow-up is unquestionably formulaic but mercifully free of the flat dialogue and arch one-liners that undermine so many action films.
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.
