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800 Bullets
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0807839001549
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: TLA Releasing
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Original Language),
Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
MPN: 110
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TLA Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Running Time: 124 minutes
Studio: TLA Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Blending wicked humor and shot in beautiful Cinescope, 800 Bullets is a hyper-stylized tribute to spaghetti westerns courtesy of cult Spanish director lex de la Iglesia . Young Carlos (Luis Castro), striking out on his own in search of his long-lost father, swipes his shrewish businesswoman mother's (Carmen Maura) credit card and sets his sights on Texas-Hollywood, a Western themed attraction that has seen better days. Carlos comes into contact with his alcoholic grandfather Julian (Sancho Gracia) a one time Clint Eastwood stunt-double who is still chasing his dreams of stardom amidst the arid dust of the Spanish desert.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Homage to Italian westerns could have been better
This homage to Spaghetti Westerns (those films made mostly in the 60s in Spain under Italian directors and actors using English names) could have been a bit better. Directed by Spanish director (and enfant terrible) Alex de la Iglesia, it starts as the story of a boy who leaves his home in order to search his paternal grandfather, Julian (Spanish veteran actor Sancho Gracia), a former movie stuntman who worked in those westerns and whose main claim to fame is to having been Clint Eastwood's double ... Read More
Rating:  - (3.5 STARS) Spanish Cult Director's (Largely) Entertaining Homage to the Spaghetti Western
"Accion Mutante" "Dying of Laughter" and "Perdita Durango." As these film titles suggest, Spanish cult director ýlex de la Iglesia had never made an ordinary film. Just take a look at "Perdita Durango" based on the novel by Barry Gifford (also known for his works with David Lynch). It is full of anything that mainstream Hollywood pictures would cautiously avoid to show on the screen (and the film stars Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem -- what a combination!).
Surprisingly, ýlex de la Iglesia's ... Read More
Rating: - Stock up on the ammo
In the wry, quirky little comedy,"800 Bullets," a young boy named Carlos goes in search of his paternal grandfather, a former movie stuntman whose claim to fame is serving as Clint Eastwood's double in the heyday of the spaghetti western - a fact he has been trying to parlay into a lucrative career for well over thirty years now, long after the western - spaghetti or otherwise - disappeared as a viable genre. But, oh, how the might have fallen, for when Carlos arrives, he finds Julian barely eking out a living ... Read More
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