96 Minutes vs The Mexican

96 Minutes has the higher audience score (6.7/10 against 5.9/10 for The Mexican). 96 Minutes is the shorter watch at 1h 57m compared with 2h 3m. The Mexican is the older of the two (2001 against 2025). Both are action, crime, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

96 Minutes poster96 Minutes2025 VS The Mexican posterThe Mexican2001
96 MinutesThe Mexican
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 5.9/10
Year20252001
Length1h 57m2h 3m
GenresAction, Crime, RomanceAction, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country––
DirectorTzu-Hsuan HungGore Verbinski
Main castEdison Wang, Wu Chien-ho, Lee Lee-Zen, Austin Lin, Vivian SungDavid Krumholtz, Bob Balaban, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Gene Hackman

Synopsis

96 Minutes

Former bomb disposal expert, Song Kang-Ren, and his fiancée, Huang Xin, board a high-speed train that contains a bomb. At the same time, Liu Kai, a well-known physics teacher who was involved in an affair scandal, also boards this same train in order to win back his wife, Ting Juan, who took the prior high-speed rail to return home in frustration… After all, can the bomb be successfully defused this time? and resolve the crisis?

The Mexican

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

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