The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006)
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Cast
as Pete Perkins
as Mike Norton
as Melquiades Estrada
as Melquiades Estrada
as Sheriff Belmont
as Lou Ann Norton
as Rachel
as Mariana
as Old Man With Radio
as Lucio
as Captain Gomez
as Rosa
as Manuel
as Juan
as Border Patrolman
as Salesman
as Bubba
as Don Casimiro
as Sands Guy 2
as Jorge
as Cowboy 2
as Kruger
as El Toston Woman 2
as Miller
as Jim
as Cowboy 1
as Mary, Soap Opera Girl
as Chuck
as Dog Lady
as Bob
as Immigrant Girl
as Radio Announcer 1
as Agustin
as Gravedigger
as Sands Guy 1
as Neil
as Tomas
as Man
as Piano Player
as Radio Announcer 2
as Doctor
as Deputy Antonio
as John, Soap Opera
as Adriana
as A.L.
as Chino
as El Toston Woman 1
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Critic Reviews for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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This isn't a film that demands to be enjoyed in order to be remembered -- one way or the other, it will stick with you.
With all due respect to that important, quasi-controversial, most-honored film of last year, this is the best Western of 2005.
[A] long, kooky, immensely absorbing picture, which forges the elegiac cruelty of a Cormac McCarthy novel with the two-fisted machismo of a Sam Peckinpah movie, and comes up with an altogether new brand of Western mythology.
Funny, tough, filled with cut-to-the-bone moments and bleached in the heat of the Texas sun, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a movie that sears itself into the viewer with uncompromising vision and stark approach.
It boasts genuinely and uniformly fine performances -- a credit to Jones the director and the actor, as well as his costars -- some stunning cinematography by the great Chris Menges and a uncompromising script by [Guillermo] Arriaga.
Tommy Lee Jones' big-screen directorial debut might not be the easiest film to watch, but its payoff makes it one of the better trips to the movies of the past year.
Audience Reviews for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut fits right into his oeuvre, sometimes even feels like the brother of one of his masterpieces, "No country for old men". It tells the story of a ranger trying to solve the murder of his illegal Mexican worker, who was on the verge of becoming a real friend, and a special journey he's taking with the perpetrator. That's beautifully filmed, but very slowly told. The fact that the vigilante and the killer hardly ever speak, and probably realistically so, makes the final act a little less believable but still a pretty decent ending. Worth seeing and a brave attempt, but certainly not an easy film to consume.
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This is one of Tommy Lee Jones best films. About a Mexican hand he hires who is murdered and what he goes through to prove his killer and to gets revenge. A very long movie one reason it didn't get much airplay. a 5 star independent film.
Super Reviewer
Thought this was a western not sure what you class it as, quite an odd film.
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