The director, Martin Campbell, did the Bond picture "GoldenEye," and in a sense "The Mask of Zorro" is a Bond picture on horseback: There's the megalomaniac villain, the plan to take over the world (or, in this case, California), the training of the hero, the bold entry into the enemy's social world, the romance with the bad guy's stepdaughter, and the sensational stunts. The movie resurrects a character first played in silent films by Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and again on TV in the 1950s by Guy Williams, and launches him in what the producers no doubt hope will be a series. It also has a lot of zest, humor, energy and swordplay it's fun, and not an insult to the intelligence. ![]() ![]() evil, and blood debts are nursed down through the generations. "The Mask of Zorro" has something you don't often see in modern action pictures: a sense of honor.
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