Immoral Perdita Durango (Rosie Perez) finds her match in the even more
immoral Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), who is not only a crook with his
hands in every crime imaginable, but also a high priest of some Latin
American cult which uses corpses in its ceremonies. For Perdita and Romeo,
it's love at first sight, and soon the two of them decide to sacrifice a
living man during the next ceremony, and to this end they kidnap two
teens, Duane (Harley Cross) and Estelle (Aimee Graham), whom they also
rape so they won't die virgins. The ceremony though is interrupted by the
police, and suddenly Perdita and Romeo find themselves with Duane and
Estelle as hostages. Romeo is soon hired by crime kingpin Santos (Don
Stroud) to deliver a truckload full of fetuses to Las Vegas, but he and
Perdita are still lumbered with the two teens they can't get themselves to
kill for one reason or another, and a sleazy federal agent, Woody (James
Gandolfini), is already on their trail. While on the road, it becomes more
and more apparent that Romeo is walking into a trap set up by Santos, but
he pushes on anyhow. Perdita realizes only too late that Romeo is going to
die, and she rushes to his rescue, only to see him shot dead by his own
cousin (Carlos Bardem). The police arrives shortly afterwards, but Perdita
has no problems to escape - but her life without Romeo will be a sad one,
especially in a town like Las Vegas, where everybody's supposed to be
happy. This sort-of sequel to David Lynch's Wild at Heart
- though director Álex de la Iglesia fortunately never even tries to
duplicate Lynch's style - is above all else a party movie: It has got
violence, gore, sex, funny oneliners, is immoral as hell, and features a
story that's easy to follow. Sure, on closer examination the story doesn't
make too much sense, and sure, the characters are not exactly
multi-layered, but the whole thing is beautifully shot, fast paced - and
above everything else, so much fun. In many ways it isn't, but in some
ways, it is a great movie, and when you prepare to be entertained and not
intellectually challenged, you open a can of beer and don't expect a
genuine masterpiece, you will be properly entertained.
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