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Spyglass Entertainment
Zorro Collection
Adventure begins with a Z.
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.
Filipe Manuel Neto
Apr 28, 2023 · via TMDB
**A clever and dextrous sequel, and a good adventure movie to spend some family time.** I really liked the first film, one of the best modern swashbuckling films, and I didn't expect anything too inferior from this one, which has the ability to create a good continuity with its predecessor. The action takes place a few years later, during the ephemeral Republic of California, which had achieved independence to join the USA. In the film, Diego and Elena's marriage is falling apart, and they end up separated. She is then coerced into working for the Pinkerton's, who seek to keep tabs on a European aristocrat who has just moved to the region, and whom Elena already knew from her youth. Meanwhile, Diego tries to stay active as Zorro and reconcile that with his obligations as the father of the young and willful Joaquin, a deep admirer of the masked hero who is not yet aware of his father's double life. Despite being undoubtedly a good film, it is slightly weaker than its predecessor because it has a more complicated script and tries to do more things at the same time. Diego, Elena and Joaquin act by themselves against different opponents. That's not a bad thing, just different: the film is full of action and adventure, it's aesthetically beautiful and fun. What I really didn't like is the predictability of the story, roughly from the middle onwards, and that story of the Knights of Aragon which, besides being a very stupid cliché, is something absolutely far-fetched. António Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones return to their characters, and they are very good at bringing them to life, which is an excellent point in favor of the whole film. The best scenes here, in addition to the fights and action, are the various scenes where both act together, with excellent chemistry and wonderfully developed joint work. The young actor who gave life to the son of both characters, Adrian Alonso, is not particularly brilliant, but he does what he needs to and is effective. Rufus Sewell is not unpleasant, he exudes an almost aristocratic presence, and that made his character more believable, but it doesn't make him a really fearsome villain. Technically, it's a pretty standard film with nothing special, and the most common ingredients of Hollywood adventure blockbusters: extremely choreographed fights with no chance of happening in a real situation, but cinematic and fun, a light, polite style, a lot of political correctness very common in family films, absence of dead moments thanks to an edition that gave rhythm and some velocity to the story, good sets and costumes that look beautiful, even if they are not exactly rigorous from the historical point of view, and a lively soundtrack, which pulls the atmosphere up and makes the film livelier and more dynamic, harmoniously blending with the cinematography, where warm colors dominate the look.
Unknownian
Jan 29, 2022 · via TMDB
I finally got around to watching this yesterday. I'm sorry to say that this movie is a laughable sequel to the first one also starring Bandaras and Jones. It would be hard to convince me that the same director was involved with both projects if I hadn't read it in the credits for myself. Zorro 'never kills anyone' with his sword. He smacks them on the backside, slaps them on the face, or flips them on their butts. This doesn't stop the villains from killing folks; they have a field day while Bandaras is more concerned about waving to the cheering crowds than saving his friends. The hired henchman is within Zorro's killing field from the very first scenes right through the movie. However, for some mystical reason not (revealed by the film makers), Zorro lets him and his friends escape each time, until Jones finally puts him down near the end. Constant bickering between Bandaras and Jones throughout the flick, and Zorro's playful heroic non lethal fighting style, ruin this potentially good film. 1&1/2 stars out of 4, for the great performance by 'Tornado' (the horse), or it would be a complete flop.
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Antonio Banderas
Don Alejandro de la Vega / Zorro
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Elena
Adrian Alonso
Joaquin
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Frey Felipe
Nick Chinlund
Jacob McGivens
Rufus Sewell
Armand
Michael Emerson
Harrigan
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Governor Riley
Mary Crosby
Governor's Wife
Giovanna Zacarías
Blanca
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Guillermo Cortez
Tony Amendola
Father Quintero
Shuler Hensley
Pike
Fernando Becerril
Don Diaz
Mar Carrera
Marie
Silverio Palacios
Head Jailer
Finder's Key
Tornado
Rowley Irlam
Sneering Man (uncredited)
Tomas Owen
Art Direction
Phil Meheux
Director of Photography
Ken Diaz
Makeup Department Head
Gary Archer
Prosthetics
Gary Powell
Stunt Coordinator
Ben Cooke
Stunt Double
Armando Zamarripa
Stunts
Ben Cooke
Stunts
Brent Woolsey
Stunts
Daniel Arrias
Stunts
Dino Dos Santos
Stunts
Diz Sharpe
Stunts
Franklin Mark Henson
Stunts
Keith Campbell
Stunts
Mark Southworth
Stunts
Michael Taylor Gray
Stunts
Mike Smith
Stunts
Rob Inch
Stunts
Ronn Surels
Stunts
Rowley Irlam
Stunts
Theo Kypri
Stunts
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Stunts
Martin Campbell
Director
Bruce Moriarty
First Assistant Director
Jamie Marshall
Second Assistant Director
Stuart Baird
Editor
Gary Barber
Executive Producer
Roger Birnbaum
Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg
Executive Producer
Laurie MacDonald
Producer
Walter F. Parkes
Producer
James Horner
Original Music Composer
Alan Robert Murray
Supervising Sound Editor
Alex Kurtzman
Screenplay
Roberto Orci
Screenplay
Alex Kurtzman
Story
Roberto Orci
Story
Ted Elliott
Story
Terry Rossio
Story
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