Desert Saints

  • Action
  • Romance
  • Thriller
3/10/2002
88
R

Storyline

Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise.

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  • Wuchak

    As they say in Latin, "De gustibus non est disputandum"

    An American hitman working for the Latin American cartels (Kiefer Sutherland) always uses and loses a solitary woman for his assignments. But this time, his last hit, he apprehends a woman whos more interesting than usual (Melora Walters). Meanwhile, the FBI is hot on his trail.

    "Desert Saints" (2002) is a crime thriller cut from the same cloth as "The Getaway" (1972) and Dennis Hoppers "Backtrack," aka "Catchfire," mixed with 90s Tarantino flicks and their knockoffs, such as The Way of the Gun. Like those movies, dont expect likable protagonists. The only person whos noble is FBI Agent Scanlon (Jamey Sheridan) and maybe his female partner (Leslie Stefanson).

    Kiefer does...

    February 23, 2025

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