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Name: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Released: 2005-12-14
Cast: Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, Tommy Lee Jones

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

R
2h 1m
2005

85%

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Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones (Best Supporting Actor, The Fugitive, 1993) directs and stars in this poetic and striking modern-day Western. Peter Perkins (Jones) is a veteran cowboy who embodies the values of the old west, living in a small Texas town bordering the U.S. and Mexico. He hires Melquiades Estrada as a ranch hand and quickly befriends the man. But when Estrada is gunned down under mysterious circumstances, Perkins takes justice into his own hands and kidnaps a trigger-happy border patrolman (Barry Pepper - Saving Private Ryan), forcing Perkins to unearth Estrada's body and accompany Perkins on horseback on the long and treacherous journey through the frontier mountains and back roads of Mexico to bring his friend's body home.

Director:

Tommy Lee Jones

Producer:

Tommy Lee Jones, Luc Besson, Michael Fitzgerald, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam

Writer:

Guillermo Arriaga

Cast:

Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, Tommy Lee Jones

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut is both a potent western and a powerful morality tale.

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

A contemplation film that begs to be chewed up, spit out, processed, talked about, and felt deeply.

It's a neo-western so predictable and so flat, that I know almost everything that happens by heart. [Full review in Spanish]

Arriaga's wry fatalism is strangely satisfying, and his screenplay provides the backbone for great performances by the principal cast.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has the grandeur of a morality drama enriched with the impassioned bewilderment of true tragedy.

October 7, 2018

FULL REVIEW

The Tyee (British Columbia)

Dorothy Woodend

Despite the occasional gruesomely gleeful tone of this film, (you may find yourself laughing in inappropriate places) it has an odd dignity, most of which comes from Tommy Lee Jones.

August 24, 2017

FULL REVIEW