Pun Salad

This movie stars, and was directed by, Tommy Lee Jones. It's a little arty for me, maybe a tad pretentious too. For example, in case we missed the point of the title The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, each burial is announced with a bilingual title card.

But anyway, Tommy Lee plays Pete, friend of the eponymous Melquiades. Melquiades winds up dead in the first few minutes of the movie, the victim of negligent homicide. Complicating things: (1) Pete has promised Melquiades that he would return him to his home town in Mexico for burial; (2) the local legal authorities aren't very interested in bringing the killer to trial. So Pete sets out to keep his promise and administer some impromptu justice.

I'm not sure if I was supposed to laugh at the hijinks involved in all this, but I did so in a couple of places.

Fans of The Band may want to avoid this, because Levon Helm is in it, and doesn't look very good at all.