Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Mexico
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- mexico
- corruption
- coup d'etat
- revenge
- gun battle
- body double
- political assassination
- mariachi
- guitar player
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Antonio Banderas
El Mariachi
Johnny Depp
CIA Agent Jeffrey Sands
Cheech Marin
Belini
Salma Hayek Pinault
Carolina
- Mickey Rourke — Billy Chambers
- Willem Dafoe — Armando Barillo
- Eva Mendes — CIA Agent Ajedrez
- Danny Trejo — Cucuy
- Rubén Blades — Jorge, Retired FBI Agent
- Enrique Iglesias — Lorenzo
- Marco Leonardi — Fideo
- Troy Robinson — Romero
- Gerardo Vigil — General Marquez
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr. — President of Mexico
- Julio Oscar Mechoso — Nicholas, Presidential Advisor
- Directed
- Robert Rodriguez
- Written
- Robert Rodriguez
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 2,471 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Dimension Films, Troublemaker Studios
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1993El Mariachi
Where it starts.
Desperado
1995
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
