Antonio Banderas

Anthony Hopkins

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Stuart Wilson

Matt Letscher

L.Q. Jones

Diego Sieres

José María de Tavira

Tony Amendola

Emiliano Guerra

Yolanda Orizaga

Paco Morayta

William Marquez

Pedro Altamirano

Luisa Huertas

María Fernández Cruz

Mónica Fernández Cruz

Julieta Rosen

Raúl Martínez

Victor Rivers

José Pérez

Tony Cabral

Tony Genaro

Iván Rafael

David Villalpando

Maury Chaykin

Paul Ganus

Sergio Espinoza

Conrad Roberts

Abel Woolrich

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Moisés Suárez

Humberto Elizondo

Fernando Becerril

Alberto Carrera

Eduardo López

Vanessa Bauche

Gonzalo Lora

Rudy Miller

Manolo Pastor

Diego Sandoval

Enrike Palma

Erika Carlsson

Manuel de Jesús Vásquez Morales

Óscar Zerafín González

Kelsie Kimberli Garcia

Kaylissa Keli Garcia

Martin Campbell

Thom Noble

John Eskow

Doug Claybourne

David Foster

James Horner

Laurie MacDonald

Steven Spielberg

Ted Elliott

Phil Meheux

Walter F. Parkes

Randall Jahnson

Johnston McCulley

Terry Rossio

Lupita Peckinpah

Casey O'Neill

Denise Camargo

Gabriel Solana

Dale Gibson

Richard L. Blackwell

Pam Dixon

Laurencio Cordero

Joey Box

Richard Bucher

R.L. Tolbert

Tony Angelotti

John Casino

Rosie Duprat Fort

Paul LeBlanc

Perry Barndt

Ken Diaz

George Parra

Danny Costa

John Gertz

Jan Bryant

Glenn Randall Jr.

James M. Churchman

Michael Atwell

Graciela Mazón

Dennis Deveaugh

Mario Roberts

John Stears

Tom Morga

Jason Rodriguez

Kyle Cooper

Jake Lombard

Roger Pearce

Lincoln Simonds

Mike Johnson

Juddson Keith Linn

Jim Hardy

Peter Stader

Mike Watson

Gary Morgan

Alex Green

Vladimir Orlov

Chuck Waters

Terry Potter

Jeff Habberstad

Nancy Young

Kim Marks

Richard L. Duran

Marguerite Happy

Thomas Rosales Jr.

George Marshall Ruge

Webster Whinery

J. Mark Donaldson

Jimmy Ortega

Taso N. Stavrakis

Jim Vickers

Larry Holt

Jasper Fforde

Daniel Almada

Sam Barnes

Cecilia Montiel

Tava R. Maloy

Tomas Owen

Kirk R. Gardner

Jorge L. Baron

Kevin O'Connell

Greg P. Russell

Joaquin Cervera

Nancy Jane King

Sue Field

Tad Griffith

Chitra F. Mojtabai

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The Mask of Zorro

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High definition a necessity for this delightful homage to swashbucklers.

Zorro senior tutors Zorro junior in the way of the blade, their combined goal? To enact revenge on Don Rafael Montero and Capt. Harrison Love respectively.

Martin Campbell was an interesting and wise choice for this latest take on the swashbuckling heroics of the Latin Robin Hood. Campbell was the man in the director's chair for both of James Bond's reinvigoration's, firstly with "Golden Eye" in 1995, and then with "Casino Royale" in 2006. For here it's evident that The Mask Of Zorro has no delusions of grandeur in the pantheon of cinema, it wants (and is) to be an action film with pure fantastical flamboyance pouring from practically every frame. It honours the swashers of old by ensuring all genre boxes are ticked, yep, we got swords a plenty, yep, we got a dashing hero (x 2 actually), yep, we got a spiffing looking villain, and yes we got a heaving bosom led romance into the mix as well. While Campbell and his team of screenwriters gleefully ensure that humour is a very prominent thing, thus keeping the fantasy in the comic book realm from which Zorro's essence comes.

The stunt work on show is top draw, none more so than during a horse chase sequence where this Zorro tips its hat to former glorious genre pieces (well done Tony Angelotti). Other notable technical aspects deserve a mention, the costumes from Graciela Mazón are desirable and now in this age of High Definition Cinema, good make up work really comes to the fore, so it be that that department did sterling work on this picture (check out Elena's gorgeous face). The cast are basically very strong, Antonio Banderas slips into the Zorro cape with charming ease, and though it's nice to see a Spanish actor playing the famous Spanish character, here in this adaptation the irony is that Zorro is Mexican! Anthony Hopkins is as elegant as ever as the elder, newly retired Zorro AKA: Don Diego de la Vega, and Catherine Zeta Jones is positively ravishing as Elena, while Stuart Wilson does a nice line in pompous villainy as Don Rafael Montero.

Some minor complaints do dwell within the picture. Campbell has a lot to fit into a running time of two hours and twenty odd minutes, and this makes the wait for the rip roaring finale longer than one at first wished for. Though for sure let it be noted that the gold mine action bonanza at pics end is totally worth the wait. Weak in the cast is Matt Letscher as Captain Love, oddly looking like some Kiefer Sutherland tribute act, he lacks any real menace for what is a pretty well written role. James Horner's score lacks the necessary boom boom bang bang that someone like Alfred Newman would have provided, and a comedy horse strand pushes the boundaries of acceptable genre homages a little too far.

But really why moan and groan at irks that don't alter the trajectory of The Mask Of Zorro's blade? It isn't trying to do anything other than whisk you along for a blade swashing ride, and that is something that it most assuredly succeeds in doing. 8/10

Solid swash-buckling action-adventure cast perfectly with Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and finely directed by the great Martin Campbell. I don't remember much about its sequel, The Legend of Zorro, but kind of wished there would be one more to complete a trilogy (maybe titled Zorro's Last Ride?). In any case, was a fun ride and been a good decade plus the last time I watched. **3.75/5**

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