El Mariachi/ Desperado  (Blu-ray English)

American crime lord Moco has set up a lucrative business in Mexico min He tries to rub out his imprisoned employee Azul min However, Azul overcomes the hit-men and escapes, determined to get his revenge min Meanwhile, a wandering mariachi comes to the same town looking for work min As Azul's trademark is his guitar case filled with weapons, the Mariachi is mistaken for him and finds himself a hunted man min Everyone looking for him likes to shoot first and ask questions later, so correcting the misunderstanding will not be easy min

Desperado

With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, El Mariachi, director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence min We pick up the story as a continuation of El Mariachi, where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death min This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie min However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown min