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The Legend of Zorro

2005

Martin Campbell

Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund ...

5.1

20,337

Adventure. Action After fighting to help California become the 31st state of the Union, Zorro (Antonio Banderas) must live up to the promise he made his wife Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) -- to give up his secret identity and live a normal life as Alejandro de la Vega. When he hesitates, it threatens to tear them apart. Now, the same forces that conspired to keep California from becoming part of the United States are plotting to unleash a threat that has ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"This is why they serve alcohol at college reunions. Sadly, you'll have to suffer through the movie sober."	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	The trouble with sequels is that most are obliged to outperform their forerunners in the most obvious ways (...) [Here] that rule translates into busier, sloppier, less coherent and more frantic. Subtlety is out the window."	NEG
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Undemanding Saturday-matinee action fun in Old California, but hardly a hot-ticket holiday blockbuster (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] commits a lot of movie sins, but one is mortal: It turns the magnificent Elena into a nag (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"What started out as a promising return to form for that mythic Mexican buckler of swash has, in a single sequel, devolved into 'The Mummy Returns'-lite, or, if you prefer, 'Spy Kids 2' (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A couple of fancy fight sequences allow the stars, and their stunt doubles, to demonstrate how dashing they still look with swords in hand."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Some sequels are made too soon, while others are made too late (...) It's difficult to say whether the film would have been better had it gone before cameras three or four years ago but, by 2005, it feels creaky and out-of-date."	NEG

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