The Legend of Zorro

United States

2005

130 Min

Color

2.35:1

Spanish, English

Currently 1.7/5 Stars.
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EXEC Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Steven Spielberg

PROD Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes

SCR Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Johnston McCulley

CAST Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Shuler Hensley, Michael Emerson, Alberto Reyes, Adrian Alonso, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Giovanna Zacarías, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

It’s 1850, and Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) lives quietly in San Francisco with wife Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones). But when tyrants threaten to change the course of history, he dutifully dons his black mask and cape and defends California’s statehood as the sword-swinging Zorro. Martin Campbell directs this high-action sequel to his 1998 blockbuster, which helped propel the ravishing Zeta-Jones into the popular consciousness.

Director

Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand TV and film director. Campbell was born in Hastings, New Zealand. He directed two James Bond films, 1995’s GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, and 2006’s Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, and was the first Bond director since John Glen to direct more than one film, as well as the oldest director in the series’ history, at the age of 62 (beating the previous record set by Lewis Gilbert, who directed Moonraker at the age of 59). He also directed the two recent Zorro films, The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

On television Campbell had overseen some of the more action-oriented episodes from the TV series The Professionals (1977–1983), however his best known work is the 1985 BBC Television drama serial Edge of Darkness, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Director in 1986. Campbell has also directed a movie remake of… read more