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The Mask of Zorro

1998

Martin Campbell

Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Wilson ...

5.8

37,960

Adventure. Romance The Mask of Zorro is a sweeping adventure of love, honor, tragedy and triumph set against the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It's been 20 years since Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) fought oppression as the legendary romantic hero Zorro, and now he must find a successor to once again stop Raphael Montero, the corrupt official who robbed him of everything he loved and left him to rot in a Mexican prison. Antonio Banderas stars as ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It has a lot of zest, humor, energy and swordplay; it's fun, and not an insult to the intelligence. (...) 'The Mask of Zorro' is involving as well as entertaining (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"The return of the legendary swordsman is well served by a grandly mounted production in the classical style"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Banderas and Hopkins prove that there’s life in the Z-boy yet, but by leaving in the dull patches, the filmmakers may find audiences catching zzzzzs in ways they never intended."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A lively, old-fashioned adventure yarn with just a twist of modern attitude"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"'The Mask Of Zorro' is attempting nothing greater than the purest escapism that will play right across the board (...) Its sheer good nature is infectious (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"[It is] just lashings of good clean fun with desperately devilish baddies, and good guys so fantastic, so clever and witty, that they make you want to weep with pleasure.(…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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