Review – The Mask of Zorro

I imagine a movie of comparable quality could have been made for a tiny fraction of the budget of this monster-sized epic wannabe. Nobody turns in a performance that they’re likely to be proud of later on, not even Antonio Banderas. Some of the action sequences are reasonably well done, but even these brief high points are largely derivative of previous swashbuckling flicks, with maybe just a little Jackie Chan-style gymnastics thrown in for good measure. And finger on the fast-forward: for an action adventure, this one occasionally goes ever so long a time between sword fights. See if desperate