The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Rodger Boyce, Sonny Carl Davis

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Rodger Boyce, Sonny Carl Davis | Great story, direction and acting

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	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Rodger Boyce, Sonny Carl Davis Sony Pictures, 2006 average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Tommy Lee is in his element..

this story is wonderfully told.. very moving and eloquent cowpoke movie.

Great story, direction and acting

A winner from Tommy Lee Jones. A dark comedy, touching on themes as varied as loyalty and friendship to that of illegal immigration. Jones has outdone himself, both as director and actor. It's difficult to describe this film...one has to see it.

cowboy justice

n this his debut as a director, Tommy Lee Jones plays Pete Perkins, a grizzled cattle rancher on the Texas-Mexico border. Pete befriends and bonds with an illegal immigrant named Melquiades Estrada whom he hired as a ranch hand. He also promised to bury Melquiades back in his hometown if he happened to die north of the border. In a freak accident, a rookie border patrol agent named Mike Norton murders Melquiades, who had fired in his direction at a coyote. Pete knows that the redneck immigration authorities will do nothing, so in an act of vigilante justice he exhumes Melquiades, forces Norton to carry his body across the most lonesome, isolated, hostile territory you can imagine, and eventually gives him a proper burial. In the end, Norton asks forgiveness for killing Melquiades (disproving his wife Lou Anne's judgment that he's "a sonofabitch beyond redemption"), who otherwise remind us of all the many obscure, insignificant people whose fates are forgotten by the world--but not by someone as loyal as Tommy Lee Jones. Written by screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams).

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the three burials of melquiades Estrada

To begin I have never seen Tommy lee jones in a bad movie. This takes place in Texas and Mexico. There is so much beautiful country in this part of Texas. This isnt a real action packed movie but it holds your interest from beginning to end. It is well directed and I liked all the stars. This is a very beliveable story and a good one. Tommy lee jones is at his best. Highly recommended.
Bobby Standlee

Interesting, but.......

I bought this because I am a Tommy Lee Jones fan. It was worth what I paid for it, kept me wondering what was going to happen, but glad I bought it used. Tommy Lee Jones was as good as always, but the story line was weak.

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