Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too much of everything

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

When I was a kid back in the days it was good today is more like nostalgia movie.

From the late 1940s through the 1950s, town theaters across mid-America at least, had Saturday matinée shows for kids. We had a second theater in my hometown that always showed Westerns – usually double features. Before TV became widespread, that's how kids saw many of the older Westerns and other films. And, that's where I saw my earliest Zorro movies. By the time the Zorro TV series was on the air, 1957-59, I was in high school, but I still watched it once in a while with my younger brothers. We were all wrapped up in Zorro, The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy. The modern recreations of those old Westerns have much more glamour and glitz along with the color. I wonder if kids today see the stories and heroes quite the same way as kids did of a couple generations ago. Still, those of us who grew up with the originals can enjoy the modern takes and different stars in the roles. This 1998 reprisal of the "Robin Hood" of Old California, has some different twists. But, it is a good action follow-up to the 1940 film, "The Mark of Zorro." Although a couple of silent films, and one other talking picture had been made before, the 1940 film entrenched the masked caballero as a Western hero on film. Tyrone Power starred as Don Diego de la Vaga. Zorro had been highly popular in serialized articles and then books by Johnston McCulley since 1919. Now he was assured of longevity for future generations of kids, young and old. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are very good in their lead roles. Anthony Hopkins is very good in his role, which is a twist on the original stories. With its swashbuckling action, "The Mask of Zorro" and is a good modern tale of the fox of early California days.

If "The Mask of Zorro" has any deficiencies, they certainly aren't in the charm department. This movie's got charisma out the yin-yang, and not just with Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas (perfect casting here) but also in the action; exciting swordfights, wicked double entendre and endearing heroism. I haven't seen this in a good 15 years and it holds up admirably. Swashbuckling movies don't come down the pike often, and it's nice when they're done so well. And even if it didn't succeed on the entertainment front, it still has a formidable secret weapon: the absurdly stunning Catherine Zeta Jones. My, god she's something else.7/10

Zorro saves three men from the fleeing Spanish Governor but is followed to his home where his wife is killed and his infant daughter taken and is imprisoned. Twenty years later, he escapes and finds his daughter has been raised as the governor's child. Vowing revenge, he takes a young thief who is also seeking revenge as his apprentice, who will become the new wearer of the Mask of Zorro......As adventure movies go, it's one of the best of the nitrites, and easily the most fun action movie since Temple Of Doom, and the winning formula is thanks to Banderas, because like Ford in Indiana Jones, he is a great hero, but also self deprecating and not afraid to make himself look stupid at times.Campbell proves that he can make really competent action movies. When he's good he's very very good, and when he is bad, he's Green lantern. The man recharged Bond twice, and here he takes an age old hero, makes him fresh and exciting, and also makes Hopkins convincing as a sword fighter.It's a little on the long side, and some of the secondary characters are stereotypical of the setting, but its shortcomings are forgiven for the sheer spectacle of it all.It's a shame that the sequel sank without trace, because this could have been a brilliant franchise.