646f9e108c Perdita Durango meets Romeo Dolorosa, a criminal who is some sort of priest of a satanic cult and keeps crossing the Mexican-US border safely. He's asked to do a job for crime boss Santos, involving the traffic of human foetuses for the cosmetic industry. Meanwhile, he needs to make a sacrifice to please his gods and a young American couple comes in his and Perdita's way. They are being followed by an unlucky DEA agent, the father of the kidnapped girl, an old partner which Romeo double-crossed and the previous boss to whom he owes a lot of money. He doesn't like what he reads in the cards... Rough girl Perdita and her demonic lover Romeo Dolorosa need humans to sacrifice following Romeo's religion before he can go on a mission ordered by mob boss Santos. They kidnap teen sweethearts Duane and Estelle and travel with them to Las-Vegas. Perdita Durango is not the usual type of film i would sit down and watch but my television guide said this film was a horror. You could call this film many things but Horror would not be one of them. To me this film is a Road Movie that without being a great film does keep the viewer interested by the two leading players. Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem star as two crazy Mexicans who have no sense of danger when it comes to most things in their lives. The guy practices devil worship , while she is a lady of the night who craves danger. They both are cast brilliantly because they both have demonic faces and would scare Satan himself. While this film is interesting it lacks any substance from the rest of the cast which does spoil the film a little. Check out the guy with the shades who partners the cop, he has to be the worst actor i have come across in a long time. Over all this film is ok because it is different from anything else but dont cancel any nights out for it. 6 out of 10. As one Argentine critic said: "You love it or you hate it" -he rated the movie with an excellent-. I really love it and it´s because there aren´t so many movies such as this. Perdita Durango hasn´t a great plot, but this film really didn´t need it. It doesn´t matter if a scene has nothing to do with the plot, because this film doesn´t care about it. You have to be open-minded to watch it, with not so many expectatives about it, and you will like it very much. Remember that Perdita Durango wasn´t an expensive film. It has very hilarious parts, some gore ones (not so much), action, sex, deaths and some controversial themes and quotes. A nice bundle of things that I personally like in movies. The movie reminds me of some movies such as "Doom generation" and some parts of "From dawn till dusk".<br/><br/>I rate Perdita Durango with a 7 out of 10. A ten minutes longer version that was only shown on the Fantasy Film Festival in 1998 has not been released to this day.
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