Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, The Mexican
布拉德皮特 和朱莉婭羅伯茨,《墨西哥人》
Pitt and Roberts had their eyes on a co-starring project for some time -- and they wanted to work together badly enough that they eventually settled on The Mexican, an erstwhile indie project whose script didn't even call for its male and female leads to spend much time together. The result was a curiously disjointed film, badly mismarketed as a Pitt/Roberts romantic comedy, whose $147 million box office take wasn't enough to keep it from feeling like one of 2001's more unexpected disappointments. Christopher Smith of the Bangor Daily News spoke for the majority of critics when he queried, "Habla usted mediocre movie?"
皮特和羅伯茨希望共同合作由來已久。在電影《墨西哥人》中,他們的夙愿終于如愿以償。《墨西哥人》是一部曾經的獨立電影,它的劇本并沒有給男女演員很多對手戲的機會。然而結果是,這部劇情錯綜復雜的電影被錯誤地當作了皮特和羅伯茨的浪漫喜劇發行。該片的147,000,000美元的票房收入使其成為2001年度最出人意料的失望之作。《班戈每日新聞》的克里斯托弗史密斯的懷疑道出了多數影評人的心聲:“你說這是平庸之作?”