An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
The movie is some kind of bizarre masterpiece. It's probably not a movie that most people would like, but violence, with Peckinpah, sometimes becomes a psychic ballet.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
11 Nov 2001
rotten:
The movie's main problem is that the protagonist -- the dead head -- is a bore.