Tough subject matter and too complex for your average Hollywood screenwriter. Big problem here is story focused on a film crew's 2 week experience with Pancho and not on say just Pancho or just the Revolution. This is a huge story with many players and much deception. and intrigue. You could have a series or a much more in depth movie to make it more interesting. Banderas performance was likable but stereotypical and demeaning in the traditional Hollywood attitude towards Mexicans of earlier times. Poncho in the movie was mostly poorly dressed, unshaven and generally dirty and greasy looking and talked like a gravelly uneducated person. This was not necessary and took away from the movie as you lost sympathy for the main character.
