Dashing
caballeros in gleaming black-leather boots, cracking their bullwhips, flashing their swords and smoking disdainfully slim cigars: If stars Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas had succumbed to the temptation to camp it up, this would be THE PHANTOM all over again. But the Tonys swash their buckles straight -- OK, with just the slightest hint of knowing smiles -- and the result is old-fashioned fun that goes down as smoothly as a vintage cocktail. The year is 1821, and the people of Alta California are caught in the war between Mexican revolutionary Santa Ana and the forces of Spanish oppression, embodied in brutal governor Don Rafael Montero (Stuart S...
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
136 mins