the audience applauded

Please don't spend money on this.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Blistering performances.

Continuing my plan to watch every Mel Gibson movie in order, I come to Tequila SunrisePlot In A Paragraph: Mac (Gibson) is a drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia (Kurt Russell) is now a cop who is assigned to investigate him and his friendship with a Mexican dealer named Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him.him. Both men fall for Jo Ann (Michelle Pfeiffer) a restaurant owner. It was actually an effort to get through this movie. Dull, bland, uninteresting and just boring. I actually contemplated turning it off on several occasions. All of the cast look good, but when they appear bored with it all. There is a good idea in Tequila Sunrise, but it just doesn't work. At least not for me. Tequila Sunrise ended the year the 26th highest grossing movie of 1988 with a domestic gross of $41 million.

My second viewing to this film. It had a good 80s feel to the film, and set in a nice sunny location. The conflict between Kurt Russel and Mel Gibson was good, and kept it interesting throughout the film. There is a decent amount of action involved, but wouldn't say it was an action packed film, more of a film if you just want something to watch and be entertained by. As i said, i liked the 80s feel to the film, and had a great cast involved as well. I think Kurt Russell and Mel Gibson are top-notch Actors, and they both did a great job in showing their talent in Acting within this film. Wasn't the best performance by Gibson over the years, but if you want to watch the film if you like that summer 80's style like Tony Scott's 'Top Gun' then this might be the film for you. I think the best performance given by Gibson over the years would either be 'Lethal Weapon' or 'Braveheart' Overall, i enjoyed this film on my second viewing and could definitely watch it again somewhen. Like i said, if you like that 80s summer feel to a film, then definitely check this one out!

'Mac' McKussic (Mel Gibson) is a former drug dealer trying to stay clean. His close friend Nick Frescia (Kurt Russell) is in the drug taskforce in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. DEA Agent Hal Maguire (J. T. Walsh) insists that Mac is involved with faceless Mexican cartel leader Carlos. Maguire tries to get restaurant owner Jo Ann (Michelle Pfeiffer) to spy on Mac but she refuses. Nick gets close to Jo Ann as the task force closes in on Mac. Nick introduces Jo Ann to Mexican Federales Commandante Xavier Escalante (Raúl Juliá).This is a jumble messy noirish hard-boiled crime drama. The first noticeable thing is the need for more setup. It would be helpful to show the childhood friendship and even their relationship when they were cop and robber. They need to build up their story together so the audience can truly feel their closeness. Everything builds on that including the love triangle. The story is both as slow as molasses and as confused as an Iowa corn maze. I like the style and the acting is alright. However, the plot has no momentum and struggles to find any footing.

Raoul Julia, from Puerto Rico, is Carlos (a name to conjure with in Latin villainy). He's a big drug dealer from Mexico and has been operating for years with his friend, Mel Gibson, whose life he once saved in a Mexican jail. He's now not only a big cocaine importer but some kind of Mexican anti-drug official.He's great, with his big expressive eyes and explosive temper. And he's given the best lines. "FRIENDSHIP is the only thing that MATTERS! You can't blame a guy for going where his d*** tells him to. It's -- it's like a COMPASS pointing north!" The restaurateur, Michelle Pfeiffer, is Gibson's girl friend. She knows that Gibson and Julia are smuggling dope and she promises to marry Gibson so she won't be able to testify to the cop, Kurt Russell, who is also a lifelong friend of Gibson's. When he hears of this, Julia erupts in disbelief. "Man, she would say ANYTHING to keep from getting killed. She'd f*** a SNAKE!" Julia is a murderer and a major criminal but he means what he says about friendship, even as he prepares to kill Gibson.The writer/director Robert Towne was one of the authors of the superb "Chinatown" and it shows. He knows his Los Angeles locations, having grown up there, and the dialog and characters are unimpeachable.Briefly, Gibson is trying to retire from smuggling but nobody really believes him. Julia more or less seduces him into one last big haul. Kurt Russell, local narcotics, keeps trying to protect Gibson from himself and from the zealous federal DEA agent, J. T. Walsh, who is determined to put Gibson away and, if that's not possible, to kill him outright.Michelle Pfeiffer is the sleek and gorgeous owner of a high-end Italian restaurant. She's innocent enough. Just an acquaintance of Gibson's. But she's swept up in events until she becomes so involved in them that she's a danger to the whole enterprise. She can make my quattro fromaggi anytime. She winds up boffing Gibson at pool's edge while Julia secretly peeps. He slaps Gibson on the back and congratulates him. "Man, she was GREAT! Can she COOK too?" I don't know exactly what Towne had in mind though. "Chinatown" is sometimes hard for me to get my head around, and so was this. There are inserts of fingers fiddling with machinery. I don't know what end J. T. Walsh came to because it's left dangling, but either Russell is guilty of assaulting a federal officer or -- well, I don't know what the alternative is.In a scene towards the end, Pfeiffer tells Gibson she loves him. "Don't say that again." Of course, she says it again and he wallops her across the face. And a third time, and another wallop. I knew why Jack Nicholson was slapping Fay Dunawaye around in "Chinatown" but I don't know why Gibson is so physical in this scene.The whole film is thoughtful and beautifully done. There isn't a car chase in a cartload. No boat chases either, nor snowmobiles or hang gliders or roller blades. But it doesn't all hang together too well. It's a series of exquisitely done episodes with fascinating characters. Well worth catching.