This is a very strange film . The more you discuss it the more realise just how insane the film is . Alfredo Garcia gets some criminal's daughter pregnant and does a runner so the girl's father has her limbs broken and organises a bounty for the man who brings him Garcia's head . Bennie , a piano player in some Mexican dive is approached by a couple of gay hit men and decides to take his whore girlfriend on a quest to find Garcia's body , chop off his head and claim the reward money
There you go that's the plot and don't tell me you've seen it all before because this is a unique film . Okay it's totally insane and be honest a rather poor one too . It's badly paced and looks like most of the budget went on Sam Peckinpah's drink and cocaine bill but there's just something that stops it from being a total turkey . I can understand it ended up in the Medved book 50 Worst Films Of All Time but can also understand why it also has staunch defenders
Much of it depends on how well you rate Sam Pekinpah as a director . I am a fan but if you're not there's no way you'll want to see this movie . It contains all the Peckinpah elements of bloody OTT violence and mysoginism . It also contains an offbeat sense of humour that I'm certain isn't intentional . For example one of the gay hit men is killed and Bennie nonchalantly asks his lover " Do I get paid now ? " . Cut to seething widowed gay hit-man husband squealing " Yeah I'll pay you " then precedes to try and blow Bennie's head off
Some people claim this is Sam Peckinpah's final masterpiece . They're entirely wrong because CROSS OF IRON from 1977 holds that honour . But BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA does remain typically grotesque Peckinpah entertainment
There you go that's the plot and don't tell me you've seen it all before because this is a unique film . Okay it's totally insane and be honest a rather poor one too . It's badly paced and looks like most of the budget went on Sam Peckinpah's drink and cocaine bill but there's just something that stops it from being a total turkey . I can understand it ended up in the Medved book 50 Worst Films Of All Time but can also understand why it also has staunch defenders
Much of it depends on how well you rate Sam Pekinpah as a director . I am a fan but if you're not there's no way you'll want to see this movie . It contains all the Peckinpah elements of bloody OTT violence and mysoginism . It also contains an offbeat sense of humour that I'm certain isn't intentional . For example one of the gay hit men is killed and Bennie nonchalantly asks his lover " Do I get paid now ? " . Cut to seething widowed gay hit-man husband squealing " Yeah I'll pay you " then precedes to try and blow Bennie's head off
Some people claim this is Sam Peckinpah's final masterpiece . They're entirely wrong because CROSS OF IRON from 1977 holds that honour . But BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA does remain typically grotesque Peckinpah entertainment