Bandidas (2006)

"...female version of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"...  BeyondHollywood.com
"...has a good and happy ending with some nice surprises.  Scooter Thompson, MovieEveryDay.com

Editor's Note Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek play south-of-the-border Thelma and Louise in this comedy/action film. Fed up with being pushed around, the ladies take up bank-robbing and find new leases on life.

	Audra Blaser
	Dwight Yoakam
	Gary Cervantes
	Joseph D. Reitman
	Penelope Cruz
	Salma Hayek
	Sam Shepard
	Steve Zahn
	Eric Serra - Original Music By
	Espen Sandberg - Director
	Frederic Thoraval - Editor
	Jean-Michel Lacor - Executive Producer
	Joachim Roenning - Director
	Luc Besson - Producer
	Luc Besson - Writer
	Robert Mark Kamen - Writer
	Thierry Arbogast - Cinematographer

Entertainment Weekly
"Think ROBIN HOOD meets THELMA & LOUISE south of the border. Only sillier." -- Grade: B- 01/19/2007 p.65

eFilmCritic.com 8 of 10
Luc Besson turns his attention to the western genre with "Bandidas." Chillingly featherweight, but still oodles of corset-and-six-gun fun, the peppery charms of stars Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek routinely save the picture when Besson and his production team run out of things for the actresses to do...Clearly, this is a huge departure in tone for Hayek and Cruz. Given the chance to play with jokes and guns, the actresses take great delight in the project, willing and able to go wherever Besson can dream. Cruz especially seems to be having a ball, freed from her traditional heavy dramatic roles and set loose in a Wild West setting...A slightly wacky western comedy, "Bandidas" doesn't exactly hold much dramatic weight. In keeping things so frothy, the film sometimes, even at 85 minutes, runs out of inspiration. - Brian Orndorf