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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirMake no mistake, this movie is a mess. But, wow, what a mess! It's an exploding piñata, full of low comedy and high drama, deliriously colorful fight scenes and vehicle chases.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIn its wildly overwrought, burrito-Western way, is about as close to a home movie as you're likely to see in a megaplex.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversYou don't want to miss Depp in this movie -- he knocks it out of the park.
- 70Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonDallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonGod bless Johnny Depp. For the second time this year, the man has almost single-handedly redeemed an action movie that would otherwise be indistinguishable from the pack.
- 70L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyL.A. WeeklyErnest HardyThe movie is stolen by the gorgeous, droll and hilarious Depp. The movie crackles when he's onscreen and only fitfully sparks when he's not.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAn epic unhinged, and while its best sections suggest a Loony Tune done by Sam Peckinpah and Emilio Fernandez, "Mexico" needs to be even crazier than it is.
- 63Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezIf not exactly epic, the movie is certainly the biggest and most complex of Rodriguez's Mariachi trilogy, which began in "El Mariachi" and continued in "Desperado."
- 63Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaStarts having the same effect as one too many tequilas: the Hong Kong-style stunts, the goofy wisecracks, the foxy presence of Eva Mendes -- all of it becomes blurry and numbing.
- 40The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAn overstuffed would-be epic.
- 40Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterHaving already looted the Peckinpah and spaghetti-western archives, the director now quotes his own quotations, in service of not a sequel but a vociferous reiteration.