While Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a noble attempt to take the flagrantly ridiculous and blend it with the serious, that’s only worked once: John Woo’s The Killer.
Pitt twice recited, “It’s not an American story. It’s an Irish one,” but this is one of the most watered-down Hollywood plots a movie buff could hope to avoid.
Brad Pitt plays a pretty boy in Cutting Class who combats a fellow student bent on stabbing people. The good news is that Brad gets his head shoved in a vise.
The brutally violent story of how psychotic killer, Early (Brad Pitt), and his dim-witted, child-like girlfriend Adele (Juliette Lewis), terrorize an unsuspecting couple.