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The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (DVD, 2006)
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There are certain actors in films who always deliver god stories and performances. Any film with T. l. J. is guaranteed to be good. This one is no exception.
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An entertaining d.v.d. that initially is slow starting that picks up pace. There are a few interesting twists in the story. Overall well worth viewing. The acting is good & the ending admirable.
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Directed by and Starring Tommy Lee Jones. I have to confess this film passed me by when it was first released in 2006. It was brought to my attention by my cyber chums on the bulletin boards on the big betting exchange under a thread of “Great films you might have missed”. It’s a western, but set in the present day, located on the Mexican-American border. Tommy Lee Jones’s drinking and whoring pal, a Mexican cowboy is shot dead and hastily buried in a shallow grave. Tommy’s character, Pete Perkins, sets out to track down and punish the murderer who just happens to be an over zealous Border Patrol officer. He’s fortunate enough to possess a pretty wife (far too good for him) who, inevitably, seeks additional affection elsewhere, as her cold husband appears incapable of showing her any tenderness. In the meantime the police have hastily re-buried the body – why not? He’s only a Mexican cowhand with no known relatives after all. Pete soon discovers the murderer and kidnaps him in order that he can dig up the body and the two of them set off for Mexico on some old mules, lugging the decomposing body, across hard and dramatic terrain. This old-fashioned cross-country trek brings back memories of films from years ago. The Mexican had previously told Tommy of a wife and family back home residing in a Shangri-la type place in the mountains, and that’s where the are heading. Twists and turns follow aplenty as you might expect, yet this is not a fast paced film, and nor, despite the heavily armed cast intent on shooting anything and everything that moves, (would not the world be a better place without all these weapons? It aint rocket science!) and neither is it an American all action movie either. But it is a very good character-driven film that also brings to mind some of those old 60’s spaghetti westerns. Three Burials will not be everyone’s cup of tea, but a worthy effort it certainly is, and quite different to so many other trashy movies that sadly dominate the shop shelves. Well worth checking out. I enjoyed it. David Carter 16th September 2012Read full review
Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in this poetic and striking modern-day Western scripted by Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams). Peter Perkins (Jones) is a veteran cowboy who embodies the values of the old West, living in a small Texas town bordering the U.S. and Mexico. He hires Melquiades Estrada as a ranch hand and quickly befriends the man. But when Estrada is gunned down under mysterious circumstances, Perkins takes justice into his own hands and kidnaps a trigger-happy border patrolman (Barry Pepper), forcing Perkins to unearth Estrada's body and accompany Perkins on horseback on the long and treacherous journey through the frontier mountains and back roads of Mexico to bring his friend's body home.
ommy Lee Jones' directorial debut - The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada. A reinvention of the modern Western, this was an unexpectedly subtle examination of life on the border, both geographically and emotionally. Jones himself has surely never knowingly underacted in his life prior to this film but his presence here is solid, grave and absolutely spell-binding. Armed with a script from 21 grams and Amores Perros screenwriter Guillermo Arriga, it is less wilfully misleading but equally well and similarly constructed. With torrents of unexpected laugh-out-loud moments and touches of real sadness, this is a film not to have missed.
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