My Mask of Zorro review

My Mask of Zorro review 

 

Intro: So, Zorro means fox in Spanish, how can you mistake a grown man dressed in black for a fox? I'm sorry am I missing something? 

Mask of Zorro: This movie is about Don Diego/Zorro retiring from being Zorro after his last crusade and starting a family. One day someone he crossed as Zorro shows up and turn his world turns upside down. 20 years later Don Diego gets his chance at revenge, but it won't be easy. Meanwhile, he meets someone that helped him in the past and he too wants revenge, so the two men work together to achieve their goals. 

This movie is underrated! I say that because no one talks about this movie despite the fact it got a sequel. This is not only about revenge it's about redemption as well. This movie also deals with identity, legacy and loss to an extent. I'm surprised at how funny this movie is, I'm not saying it's a comedy, but it balances the funny and serious stuff well. You can see how this character influence the creation of Batman heck you can argue that Batman begins and Batman Beyond is inspired by this movie.  

Don Diego is a mystery I mean we don't know anything about him. Plus, you feel sorry for him after everything he has been through. I like how he trains and teaches Alejandro the principles of being Zorro. Also, the writers could have done more with him to make him interesting.   

Alejandro is a thief who tires to turn his life around. That's my issue with him why did he feel the need to steal?

Don Rafael (the main villain.) is a power-hungry bad guy, the way he taunts Don Diego you want Diego to chop his head off. The only gripe I have with him is we don't know his history with Diego.  

Capt. Love (another Villain.) is a sick man, you have to be if you enjoy hurting people and drinking a jar of wine with a severed head inside. I wish I was trying to be creepy.    

One of the problems with this movie is that I didn't buy the love story subplot because it didn't get enough focus. Other complaints involve plot holes and things happened too conveniently. Overall, this is a good movie I would recommend this if you like Action/Adventure films.    

Rating = Worth Seeing 
     

My rant about movie trilogies

My rant about movie trilogies 

Making a movie trilogy is hard, if the first or second film is successful the writers have to figure out what made it work, this also applies to TV shows and video games. The first movie is an introduction, it establishes the characters and the world they live in. The second film builds off the established world and the third film wraps everything up. Basically, a trilogy is one story split into three parts. That's what I like about Avatar the last Airbender, it told one story in three seasons. Sometimes the creators play it safe by making the same movie as the previous one but with a few changes, like Home Alone 2, Beneath the planet of the apes and The Hangover 2. 

That's what hurt these films the key to making a good movie is the element of surprise, we have already seen this in the previous film gave us something new. However, nothing we watch is original we have to come up with new ways of telling the story, the same thing with video games coming up with new ways of playing them. For example, Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is similar to The Nutty Professor and The Three Stooges is similar to Tom and Jerry. Also, writers borrow elements from the previous movie and give us more of that install of expanding on those elements, they have done this in films like Batman and Robin, Transformers revenge of the fallen and The Hangover 2. 

Another issue with making trilogies is new people getting involved, like new directors, cast, writers and producers. I'm so outraged with Hollywood because of this, it seems like they don’t try to make a movie there just being lazy, did they watch the previous movie? It looks like the creators are taking us for granted that we'll watch the movie despite what they do, if they keep this up there'll be more boycotts just like the X-men first class boycott hack I'll start one. Side note I'm tired of Hollywood not using the source material when it comes to making films about comic book characters, Hollywood the stories are already written for you I don’t understand how taking a story from the comics and putting it on screen can be so hard. Also, some movie trilogies have the same people but not all three movies are good like the Spider-Man films, the Matrix Trilogy and the Star Wars Prequels. Due to this, I'm starting to think that there's a conspiracy with the media. 

Another major problem with media, in general, is bringing back characters that either die or were removed in the previous film or TV show. The reason why this bothers me is because all it does is dimension what happened in the past. This isn’t a Soap Opera where you bring back Characters just because they were popular, that was the case with these films not because they will sever the story. The writers have done this in films like Men in Black 2, The Pirates of the Caribbean films, Jurassic Park the Lost World and thank goodness they didn’t do this in Terminator 2. If a character is died or removed keep it that way! This leads to another problem with trilogies and that's the ending. If the first or second film has a happy ending the writers have to undo it to continue the story. I don't mind this if it's done in a way that makes sense or sets up a plot point that needs to be resolved in the next film. The second Pirates of the Caribbean film is a good example of what I'm talking about. You make a trilogy to tell a story making money should be secondary. 

Our expectations can also ruin trilogies, we expect the sequel to be bigger and better than the original just like video games we expect better gameplay. Sometimes sequels become so much better than the original to the point where we don’t talk about them it’s hard to top it, Like Terminator 2, Spider-man 2, Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back and The Dark Knight. Basically, these movies have Continuity problems, there inconsistent with the continuity that was established in the first or second film. So far there are three movie trilogies that I like, they are The Bourne films, The Original Star Wars films and the Toy Story films. That’s sad because these movies had different directors. That's all I have to say about this subject for now.