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"Warped, violent, dark, funny, sexy. Great stuff."
The movie is ham-handed, repetitive, and rhythm-less -- a mess that's uglier than its hero and nowhere near as likable.
I have nothing against films that take political stances, but an exploitation flick? It's off-putting. I'd prefer to sit back and bask in the carnage and R-rated silliness.
Rodriguez plans "Machete" sequels. Here's hoping the next is sharper and cuts closer to the bone.
It's basically a one-joke exercise heading toward the inevitable big battle between vigilantes and Mexicans. There's lots of gore, flesh and fun along the way, but it gets repetitious.
Sorry, mis amigos, wrong decades. The modern B-movie would seem to be devoted to self-conscious fun. More laughs, but fewer real chills.
The end result is a disastrous waste of time that is as tedious as it is misguided...
... 105 minutes of ludicrous fun, but you can see the best parts in the trailer.
At the end there's the humorous promise of sequels, but if Machete is a neat, bloody full-stop on the mainstream Mexploitation genre Rodriguez has done so much to resurrect, it's a fine one.
It may be thin but it's fun and for some that will be enough.
It's taken 15 years and umpteen billion supporting tough guy roles, but Robert Rodriguez has finally managed to make a major studio film starring Danny Trejo.
It's a big, messy, gloppy red bucket of fun, but it falls short of the impact of the Grindhouse punch by this much.
Yes it's a lot of fun and great to see such an illustrious cast get in on the act of making lowbrow cinema with a smile on their face, shame the cult element remains and only fans of the grindhouse genre will be fully engaged from start to finish.
Robert Rodriguez... brings his A game to the Z-grade, revelling in the cheesiness and over-the-top violence.
The lack of subtlety and discipline is what can make Machete a disreputable pleasure and less than a full success.
Social commentary, you ask? Quite how can a film centrally preoccupied with Danny Trejo stabbing and shooting people and having sex with lots of women have any sort of pretension to political currency?
Starts out strong but things get a little wonky toward the finale. Sadly, the film is far too married to the faux trailer footage.
Robert Rodriguez loves grindhouse cinema, but you'd never know it from Machete, which seems more interested in mockery than homage.
[Robert] Rodriguez's politics are right on the surface and about as complex as the film's revenge plot, a kind-of populist response to the anti-immigration rhetoric...
Turning all known manifestations of the classic western on their heads when not simply decapitating them in droves, Machete detonates the battle around immigration like no Tea Party rally ever could, in this get even bilingual guerrilla warfare satire.
Turning all known manifestations of the classic western on their heads when not simply decapitating them in droves, Machete detonates the battle around immigration like no Tea Party rally ever could, in this get even bilingual guerrilla warfare satire.
While it's riotously entertaining, there's nothing much to it.
Un entretenimiento crudo, básico, con personajes de una sola pieza, algunos diálogos increíbles y generosas dosis de sangre y desmembramientos. Un homenaje de Robert Rodríguez al cine clase B que tanto le gusta.
The film has some outrageously enjoyable set-pieces, but overall, the convoluted plot and Rodriguez' agenda spoil the fun.
Yet another missed opportunity from Rodriguez who relies on hammy performances from acting legends instead of adequately attempting to recreate the genre he claims to love.
[A] tongue-in-cheek, knife-in-guts action thriller...
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