The Mexican

B+

I've never been a Julia Roberts fan like some are so I don't think I was disappointed that Julia Roberts a. didn't have much of a part and b. was annoying. She was supposed to be annoying since she plays a nag. She spends her free time highlighting lines from books like What's Wrong With Men?

The plot of the movie evolves slowly. It is half a story about true love (though definitely a dysfunctional kind of love, at least when the two are together) and the other half about a bunch of gangsters and hit men after an antique pistol called The Mexican. Brad Pitt has been sent to get it but there are a lot of complications that come up. A whole lot of complications.

And I think that's where the real interest in the movie comes from. You get to know the characters and find out why they're in the business they're in. The characters talk to each other about a lot more than just the plot. And as all the background unfolds and the complications are introduced the story gets a lot more interesting.

At the beginning of the movie I was thinking it was absolutely dreadful (and Roberts didn't help), but as it went on I liked it more and more, until the end when I started thinking this was really good. The movie is a full 2 hours long so you will have to sit there quite a while, but I think if you stay open minded you could end up enjoying it.

Muy bueno. I'll give it a B+.

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