“[T]his surprisingly edgy, risk-taking movie eschews such typical Hollywood thinking, and also turns quite a few conventions on their ears in the process”

- Jeff Vice

“[H]as the bloated, tentative feel of star vehicle with too much riding on it”

- Robert Horton

The Mexican

A mob errand runner (Brad Pitt) has to go to Mexico to retrieve a priceless pistol, but he also has to keep his promise to his girlfriend (Julia Roberts) that this trip is his last as a mobster. James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, J.K. Simmons. Director: Gore Verbinski (2001, R)