If a sequel is done well, it is my tendency to think of the sequel as merely a later part in a single tale. Robert Rodriguez has thrown this principle out the window. While I do think all three are well done, they do not seamlessly tell a single story, as normally I would expect. If we do begin with El Mariachi, the tale of two visitors from out of town who are mistaken as if they are both Azul, the disenfranchised past employee of a drug cartel who returns with vengeance on his mind and guns in a guitar case. The second, carrying a real guitar, is distrusted partly because drug cartel thugs know an enemy with a guitar case is on the way. So, the two are confused with one another and together add up to quite an enemy.
Desperado, which is part two, looks back on that first story, but it's as if the person telling the story remembers it as if through a drunken or drugged stupor. The general pieces are there, but the telling bears very little resemblance to what happened.
On this principal of exaggerated story-telling we see in Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico does more of the same but picks up where Desperado left off. As a Star Trek fan, I see a lot of Star Trek fans who pick apart problems with the incongruent nature of the various stories purportedly connected, and they do have a way of keeping that fiction in line with itself. However, since Mr. Rodriguez has rewritten the nature we otherwise might have expected in sequels, the person who in any respect may be a fan of the work of Rodriguez or these particular movies will have to likewise ignore any problems with incongruent plot.
I bought El Mariachi some years ago and was so impressed that when Desperado came out, I bought that too. I was excited to see Once Upon a Time in Mexico come out and I remember buying that but those three various products were 1 - loaned out; 2 - loaned out; and 3 - burned in a house fire. So, I am very glad to see them again in my collection.
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