The Mexican
Director: Gore Verbinski
Year Released: 2001
Rating: 2.0
Forgettable picture that uses a basic cookie-cutter premise and throws in some extras into the salad that amount to little more than gratuitous sundae toppings. I'm sorry, but putting a gay hitman in a film and having him elaborate in the most well phrased manner the hidden secrets of love and joy does not seem like a particularly good idea (I never bought stocky James Gandolfini as the character he plays). Brad Pitt is kinetic and jumpy - this is good - but Julia Roberts is merely adequate and the screenplay hardly seems plausible (I spent way too much time trying to figure out how the characters knew the things they did).
