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I enjoy watching movies with the actor Steve Zahn. I think I first saw him in That Thing You Do, and since then he’s been in a lot of things, and, generally, his performances are the highlight of his films. He was the best thing about Sahara; Joy Ride; Happy, Texas; and the only good thing about National Security. Yesterday, however, we watched Bandidas, and as good as Zahn is, he cannot compete with the film’s main attraction (left).

Bandidas, which I had never heard of before, was originally supposed to be released in 2005, then was pushed back several times, and ultimately had very poor distribution in the United States, and no promotion, which accounts for why it was unfamiliar to me. But it had everything I like in an action movie, including a cartoonishly super-evil villain played by Dwight Yokam, mariachi music, trains, Salma Hayek, etc.