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Machete
From director Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse, Sin City) comes an action- packed, cutting-edge serving of carnage asada... with killer deleted scenes that deliver more guns, more girls and more Machete action! Set up, double-crossed and left for dead, Machete (Danny Trejo) is an ass-kicking ex-Federale who lays waste to anything that gets in his path. As he takes on hitmen, vigilantes and a ruthless drug cartel, bullets fly, blades clash and the body count rises. Any way you slice it, vengeance has a new name - Machete.
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Mindless good fun - ProfessorBOT
Machete is what you should expect if you rent it; an unbelievable slash and slice kill fest. It is an ode to movies like Grindhouse. It is fun while it lasts as long as you like this type of movie (even if only on occasion). It serves a target audience that I think knows itself well. If you want something realistic and more intelligent, I think you should know better not to look here. Still, for what it is, it was a very good movie.Exactly what you think it is - eched
An over the top spoff on all things exploitation, full of violence, fun, and over the top campy action.
I loved every moment of it, and has everything you would want to see in a bad movie, but done for laughs. From crazy death scenes to pretty flat acting, done only to bring a smile to your face.
There is an ongoing theme about immigration, but don't let that trick you into thinking this movie is deep. The theme is just in there for laughs, like everything else in the movie.Basically a 1987 action movie... - Superdave
...if only the other action movies from back then had been this entertaining. Most of those action movies had evil drug lords and avenging rogue cops trading punches and bullets, and this one follows the archetype, but manages a more coherent crime conspiracy plot, more action and a ton of laughs. With sly satiric shots at US-Mexico border relations, and unexpected casting twists - 80s action heroes Don Johnson and Steven Seagal play bad guys here - this movie manages to be a lot more clever and fun than most of its antecedents. The tone of the movie is serious, but there are so many action movie cliches brought out and kicked around that the resul is almost self-parody. The violence is so over the top as to be actually silly, and leading actor Danny Trejo is so ugly that having beautiful women throw themselves at him like he's Shaft becomes a running gag. But the production values and splatter effects are solid - making this a better LOOKING movie than most of its predecessors - and the performances and script are also uniformly solid. Even viewed simply as a straight action movie Machete is solid entertainment. And for those of us who watched WAY too many bad action movies back in the late 80s, it's something special.
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Mindless good fun - ProfessorBOT
Machete is what you should expect if you rent it; an unbelievable slash and slice kill fest. It is an ode to movies like Grindhouse. It is fun while it lasts as long as you like this type of movie (even if only on occasion). It serves a target audience ...Exactly what you think it is - eched
An over the top spoff on all things exploitation, full of violence, fun, and over the top campy action.
I loved every moment of it, and has everything you would want to see in a bad movie, but done for laughs. From crazy death scenes to pretty flat ...Basically a 1987 action movie... - Superdave
...if only the other action movies from back then had been this entertaining. Most of those action movies had evil drug lords and avenging rogue cops trading punches and bullets, and this one follows the archetype, but manages a more coherent crime conspiracy ...