Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Jimmy L. A very fun silent film. Full of action and excitement. Great sword fights and other feats of derring-do.The legendary Douglas Fairbanks stars as the charming and mischievous masked avenger Zorro. Like Batman and Robin Hood, Zorro operates outside the law to fight injustice. Zorro fights the oppression of an unjust government. Like Batman, Zorro lives a double life, acting the lazy rich boy to conceal his true hobbies.Fairbanks is impressive doing his own swashbuckling stunts. THE MARK OF ZORRO is truly one of the earliest action-adventure films, and it's still loads of fun to watch.This movie started it all for Zorro. The success of this film, based on a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley, led to more stories, more films, a TV series, etc.What's not to like about Zorro?This is a very entertaining watch. Even if you don't like silents, you might enjoy this. Recommended. 8/10

ixtab9 I consider Douglas Fairbanks Sr to be kind of the "Patron Saint" of the modern-day blockbuster spectaculars and I can picture him looking down and smiling every summer when the latest crop of these action epics are released. THE MARK OF ZORRO, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, ROBIN HOOD, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, THE BLACK PIRATE and THE GAUCHO always strike me as the cinematic forerunners of the feel-good, two-fisted, special-effects-laden works that today's studios unleash for summer and Christmas. With DON Q,SON OF ZORRO and THE IRON MASK he could even be considered the "Patron Saint" of blockbuster sequels. To be sure those who have followed in his footsteps lack his mastery of the medium and debatably only RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK has the true "Fairbanks Aura" around it. THE MARK OF ZORRO is a masterpiece for any filmmaking era and is a perfect film to use to introduce people to silent films. Always a shrewd showman Fairbanks pounced on the rights to Johnston McCulley's story THE CURSE OF CAPISTRANO, the tale that introduced "The Robin Hood of Old California" to the world. No matter what heights he'd go on to scale in his later films this one may represent Fairbanks' artistry in it's purest form. So much praise is heaped on the action scenes in this classic that viewers often overlook Doug's terrific job portraying both the foppish Don Diego and his athletic alter ego El Zorro. (When I first saw RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK the contrast between Harrison Ford's bookish, awkward mannerisms for Dr. Jones in the classroom and his agile, confident body language as the whip-wielding Indy reminded me of Fairbanks in THE MARK OF ZORRO.) Younger viewers who might otherwise sneer at silent movies like this might be persuaded to give it a chance by pointing out to them that no less an action star than Jackie Chan often praises Douglas Fairbanks in the same breath with Buster Keaton as one of his influences. THE MARK OF ZORRO all by itself earned Douglas Fairbanks his title as cinema's Swashbuckler-In-Chief.

tfrizzell The amazingly athletic Douglas Fairbanks was the first man to play Zorro on the silver screen in this legitimate silent-era masterpiece. Fairbanks does his best to win the girl (Marguerite De La Motte) and keep the people of California safe from evil military officials Noah Beery and Robert McKim. Eventually Fairbanks learns that the only way he can stop the evil tyranny is to rally the rich landowners to join him and take back the land that is rightfully theirs. The exciting chase sequence near the film's finale is still a sight to behold over 80 years later as Fairbanks does death-defying stunts to elude the bad guys. Followed by a slightly better remake in 1940 and several other versions in more modern years. For some reason Zorro films just work so well on the silver screen. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

franciscosilva_3 A classic!!Fairbanks'stunt work is superb with excellent action scenes,Marguerite De La Motte is very good as the lovelly Lolita. The plot follows the book and I think that is an important thing in an adaptation. "The Mark of Zorro" was the first movie that Douglas Fairbanks did in his own studios after he married Mary Pickford. For me,Douglas Fairbanks is one of the greatest heros in the history of the cinema,he was brilliant in all his works. 10/10