While Assassins saw Banderas in a state of full blown psychotic mania, his role as Galgo in The Expendables 3 gives him a chance to play some fine tragi-comic scenes – and heeffortlessly steals every frame he’s in. More importantly, he’d also starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in Assassins, which was the part that would secure him a role in the film at hand, The Expendables 3, nearly two decades later. That film saw a sequel eight years later with Once Upon A Time In Mexico, by which time he’d made a great Zorro in Martin Campbell’s thoroughly entertaining The Mask of Zorro and wielded an even bigger sword in the underappreciated Viking slash-fest, The 13th Warrior. Desperado marked the first of his many collaborations with Robert Rodriguez, which really broke him into mainstream Hollywood as a leading man and one with the kind of cinematic flair for weapon wielding that would make John Woo proud. However to me, as well as many of our readers I suspect, Banderas has made a great action hero over the years.
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