Along with my ongoing streak, i had the opportunity to catch another movie. The Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek and Steve Zahn starrer Bandidas.
The Plot:
The story is set in Mexico. Jackson, an employee of a New York based bank is on a mission to capture a specfic area of land for his bank's supremacy over the market. Unfortunately,he turns evil, and tries getting all the land for himself out of greed. In his quest, he signs an agreement with a local banker called Don Diego, and poisons him. After Don Diego is out of the way,he starts acquiring the land people had mortgaged for one paisa, and even killing those who protested. In this process, a farmgirl Sara's father who had mortgaged his land to Diego,is shot, and he narrowly escapes death. To avenge for the shootout and the injustice done to them, Sara(played by Salma Hayek) vows to rob as many banks as possible. She is joined by Maria(played by Penelope Cruz), Don Diego's daughter, who had been in Europe since the last ten years, and had returned just a week before Diego was poisoned. They are assisted by a local priest.
In order to investigate into the robberies, the bank sends in an investigator Quentin(played by Steve Zahn) to find those who have been robbing the bank, and those who killed Don Diego. He starts investigating,but Maria and Sara get to him and show him the truth. He understands the situaton going on, and decided to support them.
When Jackson gets sick of the constant robberies, he decides move all the money and gold of the nation to Texas. But while he's on the way to Texas, Maria,Sara and Quentin fal his plans, and rescue the gold and the money.
Final Verdict:
The movie is average. The story isn't that powerful, but spices have been added to compensate for that. But still while watching the movie, at many occasions, i was disgusted with the unnecessary scenes that were added to maintain timeline and story.
Considering everything, i'd give the movie a 2 out of 5 for the weak direction,and for the unnecessary elements added.
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