Marquez enters the presidential palace, only to once again confront El Mariachi, who shoots out his kneecaps before killing him with a headshot. Sands had instructed El Mariachi to allow the President to be killed before attacking Marquez, but the Mariachis, concluding that the President is a good man, intervene early and protect him. Marquez's troops, however, are met with resistance from not only the President's bodyguards, but also the citizens of CuliacГЎn and the Mariachis. Despite his blindness, he manages to gun down a hitman tailing him with the aid of a chicle boy.ДЄs CuliacГЎn celebrates the Day of the Dead during the President's visit, Marquez and his army storm in and attack the presidential palace. Sands realizes that his mission has been compromised, but is too late, as he is captured by Barillo and Ajedrez - who drill out his eyes before sending him out. He discovers that a group of doctors have been gunned down and Barillo has bled to death as a result of a botched facial reconstruction, but realizes that the corpse on the operating table is a body double before he is knocked out and kidnapped by the real Barillo and Ajedrez, who reveals herself to be Barillo's daughter. While monitoring Barillo's activity outside a hospital, RamГrez notices armed men storming the building and follows suit. Cucuy, however, is promptly killed by Chambers while El Mariachi escapes from captivity and calls his friends Lorenzo and Fideo to assist him in his mission. Sands' agent, Cucuy, originally hired to keep an eye on El Mariachi, instead turns and tranquilizes El Mariachi and turns him over to Barillo, also offering to reveal the details of Sands's plan. authorities once Barillo has been taken down. RamГrez convinces Chambers he will provide him protection in exchange for getting closer to Barillo by tagging Chambers' pet chihuahua with a hidden microphone, and Chambers agrees to complete the deal by surrendering to U.S. While monitoring Barillo's activities, RamГrez meets Billy Chambers, an American fugitive who has been living under the protection of Barillo, but can no longer stomach the horrible tasks he's been forced to carry out for him.

Furthermore, AFN operative Ajedrez is assigned by Sands to tail Barillo. In addition to El Mariachi, Sands persuades former FBI agent Jorge RamГrez to come out of retirement and kill Barillo, who had murdered his partner Archuleta in the past. Many years before, El Mariachi and his wife Carolina confronted Marquez in a shootout and wounded the general in retaliation, Marquez took the lives of Carolina and their daughter in an ambush. Once Upon a Time in Mexico grossed $98 million.Д®l Mariachi is recruited by CIA officer Sheldon Jeffrey Sands to kill General Emiliano Marquez, a corrupt Mexican Army officer who has been hired by Mexican drug lord Armando Barillo to assassinate the President of Mexico and overthrow the government during a period of unrest in CuliacГЎn (the capital of Sinaloa) which is testing the presidency. In the special features of the film's DVD, Rodriguez explained this was intentional, as he wanted this to be his The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the trilogy. Once Upon a Time in Mexico received positive reviews but was criticized for reducing its protagonist to an almost secondary character in his own trilogy and for having a convoluted plot. It was the first 'big budget' film to be shot in digital HD. In the film, El Mariachi is recruited by CIA agent Sheldon Sands ( Johnny Depp) to kill a corrupt general responsible for the death of his wife, Carolina ( Salma Hayek). The film features Antonio Banderas in his second and final performance as El Mariachi. It is the third and final film in Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy, and it is a sequel to 1992's El Mariachi and 1995's Desperado. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (also known as Desperado 2) is a 2003 American neo-Western action film written, directed, produced, photographed, scored, and edited by Robert Rodriguez.

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