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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 22, 1998
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Antonio Banderas plays Zorro, the gallant bandit-turned-hero who saves his people from the hands of the evil Don Rafael Monero in TriStar Pictures' The Mask of Zorro. Contributed Photo
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By Jeremy M. Doherty
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The good guys (Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins) are not struggling with inner demons. The bad guy (Stuart Wilson) desires money and power. Each action scene contains the right balance of derring-do and tongue-cheek humor. And, of course, there's a gorgeous woman (Catherine Zeta-Jones) to taunt the hero's heart.
After a summer of boring action flicks centered on computer-generated monsters and explosions, The Mask of Zorro could strike today's fickle audiences as more than a little quaint.
Director Martin Campbell freely
borrowselementsfrom50-year-old ErrolFlynnmovies.Impressively, heisable tokeep thematerial from deteriorating intocamp.Faithfully recreating the sun-parched California ofthe1840s,Campbell injects freshenthusiasm intofamiliar swordfights andhorse chases.
This version is a changing-of-the guard tale, with the aging Zorro (Hopkins) training a brash young lad (Banderas) in the ways of swashbuckling and peasant-saving. Their enemy is a land-grubbing governor (Wilson), who kidnapped Zorro's daughter (Jones) years before and raised her as his own child.
Campbell stages some interesting scenes, such as when Banderas infiltrates a high-society ball and
seduces Jones during a risqué tango. Hopkins' aging bandit also shares a touching scene with his daughter, revealing his feelings for her without identifying himself.
A needlessly long subplot involves enslaved peasants who are excavating gold for the governor's expansion plans. Although it sets up the final battle sequence, it stretches the movie's running time past the two-hour limit.
Thankfully, the casting of The Mask of Zorro could have been much worse. Bandera seems born to wear Zorro's mask, and Hopkins provides plenty of the movie's credibility as Zorro's Yoda-like mentor. Even Jones manages to make her underwritten role seem more lively than the script required.
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Of course, action movies are only as good as their villains, and any decent swashbuckler requires the steely presence of a Basil Rathbone or an Alan Rickman. Here, we get Stuart Wilson.
Who? Exactly. Is this the definitive Zorro adventure? Hardy. That honor goes to 1940's The Mask of Zor罗, which starred Tyrone Power as the bandit and featured the great Basil Rathbone as the bad guy. But this new version will do for now.
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