Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

sydneyswesternsuburbs Director and writer Alex de la Iglesia has created a gem in Perdita Durango.Starring Rosie Perez who has also been in other classic flicks, Pineapple Express 2008, The Take 2007 and Do the Right Thing 1989.Also starring Javier Bardem who has also been in another classic flick, No Country for Old Men 2007.Also starring Harley Cross who has also been in another classic flick, Cohen and Tate 1988.Also starring James Gandolfini who has also been in another classic flick, True Romance 1993.I enjoyed the sex and violence.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic South American crime flicks, Amores perros 2000, Carlito's Way 1993, City of God 2002, Desperado 1995, El mariachi 1992, Machete 2010, Extreme Prejudice 1987, Scarface 1983 El Narco 2010, In the Blood 2014, Crossing Point 2016, Sicario 2015, Desierto 2015, And Soon the Darkness 2010 and Secuestro express 2005.

Prof-Hieronymos-Grost Bad girl Perdita Durango (Rosie Perez) meets her match when she teams up with villain Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), he is an all round criminal who is also the grandson of a witch, in his spare time he sacrifices innocents in a form of voodoo ceremony. Perdita wants to kidnap some gringo's, kill them and eat them, but before they do all this, Romeo is hired to steal a consignment of human foetuses for a criminal boss who wants to use them for beauty products? In the mean time though Perdita and Romeo take great pleasure in scaring the hell out of a young blond couple they have kidnapped, after raping their respective captives they are told they are going to die in a sacrificial ceremony. There are flys in the ointment though, an FBI agent Willie 'Woody' Dumas(James Gandolfini) is in hot pursuit.as are a bunch of criminals looking for money they are owed by Romeo. Yet another darkly comic thriller from de la Iglesia, Perdita Durango combines aspects of Tarantino, The Coens and even David Lynch into one crazy demented film. There are some aspects that are rather hideous, the delight of killing and raping that the main protagonists have will surely alienate the majority of viewers, but still I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it all the same. I usually hate Perez, but here for once she really inhabits her character to perfection, Bardem is also sensational especially when he does his "voodoo" trances. The film is uber stylish and always surprising, what more could one ask for?

maatmouse-1 This film came as something of a surprise. A friend lent me the DVD and this is apparently the full, uncut version of a film which seems to have suffered (as usual) at the hands of the overzealous censors. Leave such films alone! They stand on their own.The film begins with Rosie Perez and ends with her, telling a story in between of a priest of Santeria (not Voodoo, they are different religions) played brilliantly and with much glee by the extraordinary Javier Bardem. Bardem hooks up with Perez as they head north, through the American border on a couple of jobs. The first of these jobs being to conduct dark, Santeria based rituals with his friend. The second being to do a job involving driving a truck full of human foetal material for clinics doing cosmetic surgery and getting very well paid for it. The two also drag along a couple of 'gringos', a scared young couple whom they proceed to collectively seduce and later 'sacrifice' in one of Dolorosa's ceremonies. All this and they are pursued by a member of the DEA or James Gandolfini who seems to find himself getting more and more injured in accidents as the film progresses.The film is violent, no doubt about it and not for the faint hearted. It is also incredibly sexy. The director seems to make full use of the fact that Bardem is a bit of a Spanish hunk, him spending most of the film in leather. That said, Bardem is amazing. The sub-plot of him being a priest of Santeria gives the director an opportunity to film Bardem in full-on 'devil' type mode, spitting blood at people and throwing body parts around. Strong stuff indeed.

RainDogJr Perdita Durango (Rosie Perez) is at an airport when some gringo tries to be nice with her, saying his name and that he is going to Arizona. Perdita say that to the gringo that if he wants to take her to Arizona, he must cover all and in change she will give him what he wants and also they can make some business, you know some jobs for men. The gringo feels nervous and left the place. That's the way we first know Perdita and soon we will know Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), a natural born killer with a belief. Romeo is the kind of criminal who is so dam crazy that even his own partners are very nervous while they are stealing something. There is a crazy passion between Romeo and Perdita and upon that we have a unique love story with two sick minds.The plot is quite simple and follows Romeo in a very important job for a big crime boss. Of course his belief will have an important place in this story and at the same time the classic clinging police will be chasing him through the Mexican border. The film is spoken in Spanish and English and the two Americans that Romeo and Perdita kidnap for the ritual are the perfect way to show, in a very funny and sick way, the stereotype of how Americans looks Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Duane (Harley Cross) and Estrellita (Aimee Graham) are two young American lovers that have the bad luck to be blond and to be in the same place that Romeo and Perdita were. It is so damn funny when they arrive to Mexico and Duane says something like "it looks like another planet". Of course the scenes of Romeo's sick rituals of Santeria are one of the reasons of why this film was a failure in America but for me is just quite funny to see Bardem with his cool lock. Anyway, for matters of luck or destiny or whatever that ritual will never be completed and the two young Americans will end being just a complication for the job that Romeo must do, just as that clinging police who will be the reason of why Romeo ends being like a traitor to the criminal boss Santos. So when we realize that the end of Romeo is just matter of time, is just strange that the Americans, after Perdita release them, feels even sorry of her because is a fact that they were near to be the victims of the ritual but in the end their luck or destiny keep them alive and now with a better and stronger relationship and sexual life. If may sound strange but all of that was thanks to their kidnappers even that Romeo and Perdita didn't have those intentions.About the cast:is just amazing; Javier Bardem is just so damn great. His memorable performance is probably my second personal favourite of him being Anton of No Country for Old Men my personal favourite, of course. Romeo has a very mystical past believing in many saints and later practicing rituals in order to satisfy his gods. He has many memorable scenes (the bank rob with his Santo mask is just great) and the end that he always wanted (another amazing scene). Rosie Perez is also great and very sexy as Perdita. There are few things that we know about Perdita but one thing is for sure: she found love. The support cast is also terrific; James Gandolfini, yes Tony Soprano, is the police who will have a really hard but hilarious time in his attempt to end with Romeo. The director of "Sid and Nancy", "Walker" and "Repo Man", Alex Cox, is just hilarious as the partner of Gandolfini's character. I really don't know why this director has appear in many Mexican films, being his performance in "La Ley De Herodes" the one that I remember the most. Also a f*cking Bichir is here, the brother of Javier Bardem, Screamin Jay Hawkins and Miguel Galvan, a very well-know comedian in Mexico who recently passed away, as the old friend of Romeo with only one arm.Conclusion: As I write before, those scenes of Romeo's rituals like the sex scenes are enough reasons to say that this film is not for everybody. For my money this picture is another gem of De la Iglesia that ranks along with "El Dia De la Bestia" in my favourites of him. I do recommend this film to anyone but mostly to people who like the similar films "Wild at Heart" (David Lynch,1990) and "Natural Born Killers" (Oliver Stone,1994). I know there are many fans of those films so check this film. 2 hours of a sick love story that after all is a sick and hilarious trip to the border.