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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  Thumbs upPosted: 8/9/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Beavis3 LEVON HELM RULES !!!! Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  OKPosted: 8/9/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Digger1004 It wasnt a spectacular movie but the actors were great and the whole storyline of being held accountable for your mistakes was awesome. You live and learn some difficult lessons. Trials build character. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful What Happened To The Story?Posted: 7/5/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by nette5157 If your favorite comedian told a joke with no punchline, but told it in such a funny way that you laughed throughout the joke, you might not care that there was no punchline. Such is this movie. The acting is great, the scenery is beautiful, the directing superb, cinematography excellent, and the editing challenging (in spite of many flashbacks, you always know where you are). However, there is no answer to many questions. Movies usually have a few loose ends left over but not important ones. This movie left a BIG one left untied. That or the point of the movie is that either, 1) illegal Mexicans are chronic liars and fabricate stories about themselves to impress their gringo bosses, and-or 2) Pete (the Tommy Lee Jones character) is so stupid and gullible that hell believe anything (even that a woman who cheats on him with her own husband - and who knows how many others - actually loves only him). Tommy Lee Jones might have done a brilliant job of directing and an even better one of acting. But it seems that in his eagerness to protray all white people as evil and all illigal immigrants as saintly, Mr. Jones forgot to close a most important loop (many, actually). Was this review helpful? Sign In 6 out of 6 users found this helpful Youve Gotta See ItPosted: 3/10/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by CrazyTexGal Part of the cowboy tradition is story telling, and Tommy Lee Jones is a master story teller. He weaves a tale of friendship, revenge and redemption that makes the viewer ponder how far they would go themselves to make good on a promise to a friend. Its a great modern-day western, full of flawed-but-sympathetic characters that will still appeal to a non-western audience. Was this review helpful? Sign In 8 out of 12 users found this helpful A Burial Too FarPosted: 2/25/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by _Anabasis A good film, not a great one. Effective cutting back and forth in time to tell the story. Morally ambiguous. A man is killed his killer is unpleasant but human, and not really culpable in the death. A sleazy cop has a chance to solve a problem but cant bring himself to kill. After whoring around with several characters, a waitress still wont leave her husband. The hero treats a border patrolman brutally in order to fufill a promise. Lots of twists. Its on the border, and there are wetbacks, but it is not really an immigration issue film. With slight adjustments, it could have been set in a number of times or locales. Its only real fault was that it took too long to get to the third burial. Was this review helpful? Sign In 18 out of 19 users found this helpful  Shades Of PeckinpahPosted: 2/18/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Kdubya27 Watching this subtle movie about mans inhumanity to man, violence , prejudice, bigotry, loyalty, redemption and forgiveness is a lot for a Sunday afternoon. This movie probably more than any other except for Crash has a truthful resonance to it. We come to believe in these characters and what they do on film because we have seen or experienced this before. I was often reminded of Sam Peckinpahs films Bring Me The head of Alfredo Garcia and Pat Garret and Billy The Kid because of the way that Tommy Lee Jones lets his characters develope without clumsy dialogue or rehashed stereotypical catch phrases. This movie is good for the soul because it reveals human beings as they really are. An excellent film. I have never seen better use of a coffee pot in any film. Bravo ! Was this review helpful? Sign In 9 out of 12 users found this helpful The Three Burials of Melquiades EstradaPosted: 2/15/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by DeliciousShortie_3 I liked the movie in that it portrayed the man Melquiades as a Mexican cowboys with the gentleness of so many men with rough exteriors...he had the unique quality of appearing real. What I really liked is the old addage, that what comes around goes around and how you treat people is the way you may end up being treated somewhere down the road. My sister and I argued whether the woman in the photo had actually been his wife or that he had just happened into their picture and held on to it as his reality. I wish there had been more of an ending but it was entriguing enough...I would also have liked more of the reality of the boarder life and death struggle portrayed. Was this review helpful? Sign In 2 out of 39 users found this helpful It is a movie!Posted: 2/12/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by λşịλ Dear Bulgaria and Dogbowl,
It is a movie----pretend, a what if circumstance! Not reality! Duh!!!!!!!!!!
Propaganda, my foot! Was this review helpful? Sign In 4 out of 49 users found this helpful  ...Three BurialsPosted: 2/10/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Dogbowl0 I completely agree with the comments made by bulgaria02-this flick is nothing more than propaganda...nothing but a sermon to the bleeding heart choir. Was this review helpful? Sign In 32 out of 91 users found this helpful Yawn.....Posted: 2/10/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by bulgaria02 Gee, what an unusual plot...an illegal Mexican comes across the border into the US...wheres the message here? Dont we read or hear about this kind of thing every day in the news?? This is just another attempt by Hollywood to legitimize something that is forcing itself on America, illegal immigration...just like Bareback Mountain and homosexuality. Hollywood is trying to portray these things that overwhelming numbers of Americans reject, in a sympathetic light in an attempt to show the human tragedy of it all...its nothing more than propaganda. The day Hollywood puts out a movie depicting the drug gangs streaming across the border into the US...the murders of policemen and Border Patrol officers...thats when Ill say the movie has a real message. Was this review helpful? Sign In 19 out of 31 users found this helpful ExcellentPosted: 2/5/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Scooterdawg0 Add this to the list of excellent movies over the past few months. Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, and Casanova (great chick flick and lots of fun). TLJ is at his best, the cinematography is impressive, the feeling of this desolation, love, friendship, loss, and humility is clearly evident. This movie grows on you albiet the explicit violence and stomach turning scenes. There are a few humorous scenes to take the pressure off the reality of what is happening in this film. Go see it. Was this review helpful? Sign In 33 out of 44 users found this helpful Three BurialsPosted: 2/3/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by ortrick We saw this film in France. Getting to understand the characters and story line may take a few minutes. When you understand Tommy Lee Jones characters intensions that is when you will discover the meaning of the movie. We recommend seeing it. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful the three burialsPosted: 2/3/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Anonymous long live capt. call and levon helm. cant go wrong with a vetran duo of this dynamic character. Was this review helpful? Sign In 25 out of 39 users found this helpful Leaving out a legendPosted: 2/3/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Clark312 Christy leaves out the fact that this movie also stars the legendary Levon Helm. Although a cameo appearance, Helm delivers a superb supporting role as an old blind man in this movie. Christy is either too young to know who this legend of Rock is, or she had never seen his superb supporting roles in The Coal Miners Daughter, The Doll Maker, and The Right Stuff. Nevertheless, Helm deserves at least an honorable mention. Was this review helpful? Sign In 19 out of 33 users found this helpful That its good is no suprisePosted: 2/2/2006A review of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by longtimeTLJfan1 I liked the review because it gives me an idea what the movie is about. I look foward to TLJs directorial debut. I will see it because it has TLJ in it, but its nice to know I will be seeing a movie worthy of my hard earned cash. Was this review helpful? Sign In | ||
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