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Amblin Entertainment
TriStar Pictures
Zorro Productions
Zorro Collection
No one has seen his face... but everyone... knows this mark.
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.
JPV852
Mar 13, 2023 · via TMDB
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**
John Chard
Aug 30, 2020 · via TMDB
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
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Antonio Banderas
Alejandro Murrieta / Zorro
Anthony Hopkins
Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Elena Montero / Elena Murrieta
Stuart Wilson
Don Rafael Montero
Matt Letscher
Capt. Harrison Love
L.Q. Jones
Three-Fingered Jack
Diego Sieres
Young Joaquín Murrieta
José María de Tavira
Young Alejandro Murrieta
Tony Amendola
Don Luiz
Paco Morayta
Undertaker
William Marquez
Fray Felipe
Pedro Altamirano
Squad Leader
Luisa Huertas
Nanny
Raúl Martínez
Heavyset Lieutenant
Victor Rivers
Joaquín Murrieta
José Pérez
Cpl. Armando Garcia
Tony Genaro
Watering Station Owner
David Villalpando
Stupid Soldier
Maury Chaykin
Prison Warden
Paul Ganus
Prison Guard
Conrad Roberts
Black Zorro
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Don Pedro
Moisés Suárez
Don Hector
Humberto Elizondo
Don Julio
Fernando Becerril
One of the Six Dons
Vanessa Bauche
Indian Girl
Gheorghe Mureșan
Giant Man Zorro Beats Up (uncredited)
Tomas Owen
Assistant Art Director
Kyle Cooper
Title Designer
Phil Meheux
Director of Photography
Ken Diaz
Makeup Designer
Lupita Peckinpah
Wardrobe Assistant
Jim Vickers
Fight Choreographer
Casey O'Neill
Stunt Double
Gary Morgan
Stunt Double
Nancy Young
Stunt Double
Alex Green
Stunts
Chuck Waters
Stunts
Dale Gibson
Stunts
James M. Churchman
Stunts
Jan Bryant
Stunts
Jason Rodriguez
Stunts
Jeff Habberstad
Stunts
Jimmy Ortega
Stunts
Joey Box
Stunts
John Casino
Stunts
Marguerite Happy
Stunts
Mario Roberts
Stunts
Mike Watson
Stunts
Richard L. Duran
Stunts
Tad Griffith
Stunts
Taso N. Stavrakis
Stunts
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Stunts
Tom Morga
Stunts
Vladimir Orlov
Stunts
Martin Campbell
Director
Laurie MacDonald
Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg
Executive Producer
Walter F. Parkes
Executive Producer
David Foster
Producer
James Horner
Original Music Composer
Greg P. Russell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Kevin O'Connell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ted Elliott
Screenplay
Terry Rossio
Screenplay
Randall Jahnson
Story
Ted Elliott
Story
Terry Rossio
Story
Jul 16, 1998
Dec 1, 1998
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Sep 25, 2001
Special Edition DVD edition
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