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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Jones (Actor, Director, Producer), Barry Pepper (Actor) Rated:
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4.4 out of 5 stars 1,289 ratings
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Genre Western, Action, Drama
Format NTSC, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Dolby, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Widescreen
Contributor Seaside Productions, Barry Pepper, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Michael Fitzgerald, Luc Besson, Dwight Yoakam, Tommy Jones See more
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 1 minute
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Tommy Lee Jones (Academy Award® winner, Best Supporting Actor, The Fugitive, 1993) directs and stars in this striking Western tale about a local Texas ranch foreman that kidnaps a border patrolman (Barry Pepper -- Saving Private Ryan) responsible for the accidental shooting of his friend. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, they embark on a dangerous and treacherous journey throug

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2227465
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Tommy Jones
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Dolby, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 1 minute
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Tommy Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Michael Fitzgerald, Luc Besson, Tommy Jones
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000F8O2QU
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers find this movie captivating with a brilliant story and well-developed characters, particularly praising Tommy Lee Jones's performance. The film features gorgeous cinematography and beautiful scenery, with one customer noting its exploration of Texas border life. Customers appreciate its dark comedy style and consider it a study in redemption. The pacing receives mixed reactions, with several customers describing it as slow-paced.

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107 customers mention "Movie quality"96 positive11 negative

Customers find this movie captivating, with one describing it as an eloquent cowpoke film.

"Monster of a film! One of my favorites from Tommy Lee Jones, and there are many...." Read more

"...a little girl playing Chopin on a grimy-keyed piano. The DVD is great, although in the "details" on Amazon it mentions as extras a film..." Read more

"...This is a great film. I hope more people take the time to watch it. It is also timely given the current state of affairs in this country...." Read more

"...And watch for an amazing performance in this one by Levon Helm. It is very heartening to see the Border Patrol officer get what is coming to him...." Read more

61 customers mention "Storyline"53 positive8 negative

Customers enjoy the storyline of this movie, with one customer highlighting its gritty realism and another noting its simple yet engaging narrative involving real people.

"...I found this to be a profound statement about the value of life -- that we are individuals with stories and habits and places or people that we love..." Read more

"...comparisons made by so many reviewers but it is a pretty simple story done with real people... Much like Glory Road and Friday Night Lights...." Read more

"...There are some interesting little subplots that do not detract from the main story...." Read more

"...I was told it's based on a true story. IF so, there is a God of Justice up there!" Read more

29 customers mention "Acting"29 positive0 negative

Customers praise the acting in the film, noting the well-developed characters and superb performances, with one customer specifically highlighting Tommy Lee Jones's fantastic portrayal.

"...talking, but got better and better as it went along, the actors becoming more relaxed, lots of great details and location info and nice little..." Read more

"...I loved the way the characters were portrayed as human beings you can relate to, even if the language is different...." Read more

"...It's slow paced but it has really good character development. I was told it's based on a true story. IF so, there is a God of Justice up there!" Read more

"...This is a spectacular film, with splendid acting from just about every main actor and actress. It is highly recommended...." Read more

17 customers mention "Humor"17 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the movie's dark comedy and find it entertaining, with one customer specifically praising the beautiful scenery.

"...There is a lot of dark humor in this film, some surreal moments, great dialogue, gorgeous cinematography, wonderful colors and light...." Read more

"...I thought there were lots of funny parts and yes I did wonder about Pete telling LouAnn that Mike had killed Mel in Spanish...." Read more

"...It is beautifully written, incredibly cast and acted, the story line is stunning, the characters are very well developed, and the movie could not..." Read more

"...A dark comedy, you will find yourself chuckling at both Perkins and Norton and even at the corpses." Read more

9 customers mention "Cinematography"9 positive0 negative

Customers praise the movie's gorgeous cinematography and beautiful scenery, with one customer noting how it explores the beauty and horrors of the Texas border, while another describes it as a real window into life on the frontier.

"...humor in this film, some surreal moments, great dialogue, gorgeous cinematography, wonderful colors and light...." Read more

"...Only the title story would be fiction but it is still a real window into life on our frontier. Ya done good Tommy..." Read more

"...The film is well directed by Jones, and the photography is brilliant. And watch for an amazing performance in this one by Levon Helm...." Read more

"...A clear but subtle study of the nature of friendship and idealization. A western by feel, but not a typical western. One of my favorite films." Read more

8 customers mention "Emotion level"8 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's emotional depth and visual style, describing it as cinematically beautiful, with one customer noting its vivid color palette and another highlighting its portrayal of Mexican immigrants.

"...some surreal moments, great dialogue, gorgeous cinematography, wonderful colors and light...." Read more

"Just amazing all around - casting, art direction, narrative. Incredible." Read more

"...is a genius and has entertained us all with his story, funny and sad simultaneously." Read more

"Nice look at Mexican immigrant from a personal level" Read more

6 customers mention "Morality"6 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's moral themes, describing it as a study in redemption, with one customer highlighting its focus on faithfulness to a friend.

"...Quite a morbid yet moving story of profound friendship, honor and dignity. Neo-western genre at its best. A+" Read more

"...I like that it had a moral in faithfulness to a friend. A big plus is Tommy Lee Jones, his movies are almost always very good." Read more

"...Love these two guys. Entertaining and life lessons, as well." Read more

"...A film sharing a story with gritty reality and true humanity. Definitely worth the time." Read more

7 customers mention "Pace"3 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the movie's pace, with several finding it slow.

"...This one started a little slow, same as when any group of people sit down and start talking, but got better and better as it went along, the actors..." Read more

"Wow! This one Tommy Lee Jones Directed and Starred in it. It's slow paced but it has really good character development...." Read more

"...The movie is difficult to watch at first as it skips back and forth in time and the ending will leave you baffled...." Read more

"...It maintains an even pace throughout the story and some may consider it slow but its the type that makes you think about what is right." Read more

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  • toothgrisle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Right up there with TLJ’s BEST!!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2025
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    Monster of a film! One of my favorites from Tommy Lee Jones, and there are many. Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakum, Melissa Leo and Levon Helm (one of his last roles “Just shoot me”), all really shine!
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  • Kathy Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars My new favorite film
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2006
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    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is my new favorite film. It takes place in West Texas and in Mexico. The landscape is rough, barren in places, yet indescribably beautiful. The people resemble the land: they are not shiny and perfectly groomed, but rugged, worn down by life (as opposed to erosion). They have been in the sun without SPF 50 and a protective L.L. Bean hat. They don't go to the gym. Beer is good.

    Basic plot: Pete, a cowboy, kidnaps Mike, the shallow racist cop who has accidently killed Pete's friend, Melquiades. Pete forces Mike to dig up Melquiades' body and live with that body and see the life of the man that he killed -- his room, his plate, his fork, his cup. I love the premise that if you take a life you need to acknowledge that life. Pete shows Mike: This is where Melquiades lived, this is where he came from, this is what death smells like. You caused this death, now you can breathe in the details, however unpleasant they might be. I found this to be a profound statement about the value of life -- that we are individuals with stories and habits and places or people that we love. And when you take a life, you take away more than just breath and heartbeat -- there are repercussions, there is suffering. In this film, there's no simplistic Eye for an Eye; instead the killer is forced to consider the life of his victim -- where the victim came from, what his dreams consisted of, and what he's changed into physically since that bullet entered his body. Pete and Mike and Melquiades from this point take a journey to Mexico to bury Melquiades. There is a lot of dark humor in this film, some surreal moments, great dialogue, gorgeous cinematography, wonderful colors and light. Certain scenes played in my head long after the film ended. A particular favorite takes place in a Mexican bar -- whiskey, a sunset, an open window, Mexican sci-fi on t.v., a little girl playing Chopin on a grimy-keyed piano.

    The DVD is great, although in the "details" on Amazon it mentions as extras a film about Cannes and a Making Of short and a discussion between Jones and screenwriter Arriaga, but instead of those features there is a full-film commentary between Tommy Lee Jones, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones. I was cool with this, as I love commentaries where they take you thru the entire film. This one started a little slow, same as when any group of people sit down and start talking, but got better and better as it went along, the actors becoming more relaxed, lots of great details and location info and nice little rambles about Roger Miller and Dwight Yoakam's fear of snakes. I would recommend this film highly, as it's one of those flicks that barely played anywhere (I had to drive three hours to catch it at a theater)so a lot of people missed the year's best film.
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  • JD
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 thumbs up
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2008
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    I stumbled upon this movie and saw pieces of it until I became fixated by it and had to buy a copy for myself and to share. Tommy Lee Jones grew up in SanSaba Texas and his grand father had a construction company near the border. TLJ may or may not be a great actor and this role will not settle the argument because I swear he was not acting, if he is not a Texas cow hand, then all he did was copy the real people he has seen all his life. Most of the extras were not acting either, they were themselves, believe me I live there (here?). You have to pay attention as the story is told with a lot of flashbacks but it worked. There are several stories all being told and they are all to much like truth to be fiction. Only the title story would be fiction but it is still a real window into life on our frontier. Ya done good Tommy

    After posting my review I read the other reviews. It is interesting the different takes people have on it perhaps based on how far from here they live or their own prejudices and assumptions. Mike Norton is the only Border Patrol agent ( aka La Migra) who is such an evil person. It is not all whites are bad, all Mexicans good. It is not that we need a fence or a wall (ask the Russians, you build a wall and you still have to watch it). I do not see that illegal immigration is much of an issue here, the local authorities would not have cared any more if it had been a US hitch hiker. The blind old man gives TLJ a way of saying they do not want to offend God and lets one reflect on how your own life might end lonely or worse in a nursing home. Other reviewers can not imagine someone doing something like this for a friend. Those people would be out of place and easy to ID in a truck stop, a cowboy bar, a dirt floor cantena and probably a GI bar as well. Maybe I am not smart enough or educated enough to make a lot of the comparisons made by so many reviewers but it is a pretty simple story done with real people... Much like Glory Road and Friday Night Lights. I thought there were lots of funny parts and yes I did wonder about Pete telling LouAnn that Mike had killed Mel in Spanish. I also wonder about reviewers that do not know a goat from a sheep or a coyote from a Fox.
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  • Teri
    4.0 out of 5 stars I liked it!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2010
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    If you're like me, you tend to read the worst reviews to see if anything that's said would change your mind about trying the product. It's difficult with movies and books since it's so much a matter of taste, opinion and sense of humor. One of the things that the negative reviews kept harping on is that the movie reinforces negative stereotypes. That may be true but I'm sitting in a McDonald's in Carlsbad, New Mexico that is providing fairly good evidence why those stereotypes exist. Another criticism is that it makes all the Mexicans look like good, honest people who deserve our understanding for the struggles they endure. How dare they? I bought the movie because it was filmed in West Texas (Van Horn, Big Bend and lots of places in between), because it got great reviews and because of Tommy Lee Jones. I was not disappointed.
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  • CF
    5.0 out of 5 stars "Dieser Film ist ein Pulverfass"...
    Reviewed in Germany on May 15, 2011
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    ... an Tiefgang, an Läuterung, an Bildern, an Schauspielern, ...

    Wer den Trailer zu diesem Film sieht und die Kurzbeschreibung auf Amazon liest: "Doch die Grenzpolizei startet eine gnadenlose Hetzjagd auf das Trio ..." wird etwas anderes erwarten, nämlich einen Actionstreifen. Das ist der Film aber überhaupt nicht. Etwas eigenartig sind die Schnitte des Filmes; er erzählt nämlich nebenher die Geschichte zweier Freunde und den Tod des einen von den beiden. Man wird etwas allein gelassen, denn diese Schnitte lassen nicht immer unbedingt die Wertung zu, ob es sich nun um die Vergangenheit der Beiden handelt oder doch schon um die aktuelle Handlung. Aber das soll vielleicht auch so sein, den Vergangenheit und Zukunft sind untrennbar verwoben.

    Barry Pepper, ein junger Grenzpolizist und Draufgänger erschießt genau deswegen den Mexikaner Melquiades Estrada. Estradas Freund Pete Perkins - hervorragend verkörpert durch Tommy Lee Jones - hat diesem versprochen, ihn nach seinem Tod nach Mexiko zu seiner Familie zu bringen. Das tut er, allerdings mit Pepper zusammen. Der macht das alles allerdings ganz und garnicht freiwillig.

    Was wir jetzt sehen ist der Treck der Drei durch die texanische und mexikanische Wüste nach Süden. Die Bilder sind beeindruckend und die Qualität der Bluray liefert wunderbar klare Bilder, die einen teilweise die Hitze oder das Klima vor dem großen Gewitter spüren lassen. Der Film ist überhaupt eine intensive Erfahrung des Seelenlebens von Perkins und Pepper. Was wir darüber hinaus erleben ist die Läuterung Peppers; er mutiert vom banalen amerikanischen Highschool-Bubi zum Mann, der endlich zugeben kann, einen Fehler gemacht zu haben. Er hat aber so garnichts von einer gnadenlosen Hetzjagd.

    Und deswegen ist dieser Film ein Feuerwerk... ein Feuerwerk der Gefühle, der einen am Ende ruhig dasitzen lässt. Die Musik tut ihr übriges: ein Neo-Western (so steht es auf der Hülle unter Genre) eines lonesome Cowboys auf seinem Weg. Dieser Film wird auch eingefleischten Westernfans gefallen.

    Besonders gut haben mir vorallem die Studien des einfachen Alltagslebens gefallen, die dem Film einen ungeahnten leichten Witz hier und da gegeben haben. Beide Daumen hoch!
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  • T. A. Underwood
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Grave To Dig
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2008
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    This is a very absorbing movie and a truly great modern day western that deserves 5 stars. Jones is simply outstanding and the atmosphere created through the panoramic shots of the arid dessert is similar to the Coen's "No Country for Old Men" - which is high praise indeed. After watching this I realised Jones is really making a name for himself in the Western genre and Eastwood better watch out! His acting is out of this world, every word he means and the grimaces on his face tell a thousand words in itself. This is a slow-burner of a film, but it is utterly compelling and requires no explosive devices, special FX, weapons of mass destruction, or quick fire scenes to make it so. Amongst the tender story are some laugh out loud black comedic moments which show that as a Director Jones is able to laugh at himself and not take himself too seriously, despite the heavy nature and often brutal images witnessed. Quite how Barry Pepper survives for the duration of this film is humorous in itself and he is absolutely superb in his role. Mentions need to be made to Lou Ann too who turns in a fine performance and makes smoking in a run down, down-and-out Deep South Americana cafe look unbelievably sexy. Several themes are explored in the movie, with the main one being the complexity of companionship - whether it be a loving relationship or a friendship. Jones' last words in the film are significant when he tells his Pepper - his enemy-turned-unmentioned-friend - "you can keep the horse, son" and as Jones rides off into the Mexican sunset Pepper replies "will you be alright?" There is so much depth to this film and watching how a grudging respect and ultimately haphazard understanding between Pepper and Jones develops is great (I'm running out of superlatives). Nevertheless, get this film watch, sit back and enjoy it is a brilliant (there we go again) edition to the western genre.
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  • Baja
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tematica
    Reviewed in Spain on May 30, 2019
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    Excelente
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  • Enric Rovira
    4.0 out of 5 stars Bona troballa!
    Reviewed in Spain on September 17, 2015
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    Un film savi: entreté, ensenya (una realitat de la frontera entre Mèxic i US) i fa meditar en valors universals com l'amistad o la paraula donada.
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  • cpap
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2016
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