'Machete' (2010)


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Lol yes! thats awsome. but wait...Grindhouse bombed? I thought it was really good entertaing.

to me the Grindhouse was split...

Death Proof = Thumbs Down (it was pretty boring, especially the later half after Kurt Russel was not on screen. (QT's last two films (i.e. Death Proof/Inglourious Basterds) where either boring or damn close to it with IB)

Planet Terror = Thumbs Up

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...

Quite a bizarre cast:

Danny Trejo ... Machete

Robert De Niro ... Senator McLaughlin

Jessica Alba ... Sartana

Steven Seagal ... Torrez

Michelle Rodriguez ... Luz

Jeff Fahey ... Booth

Cheech Marin ... Padr

Don Johnson ... Lt. Stillman

Shea Whigham ... Sniper

Lindsay Lohan ... April

to me the Grindhouse was split...

Death Proof = Thumbs Down (it was pretty boring, especially the later half after Kurt Russel was not on screen. (QT's last two films (i.e. Death Proof/Inglourious Basterds) where either boring or damn close to it with IB)

Planet Terror = Thumbs Up

actually, i got really bored with planet terror, and only when death proof started, it got interesting. i really liked it, even though the beginning was slow.

however you are right about IB. the movie was ****. the only likable character was the german who did not want to betray his friends.

but i have faith, this will be damn good.

This crap will bomb. Nothing but mindless violence and half-naked girls. Same ol' **** you can find in any bargain bin.

I'll pass.

The Globe and Mail gives it two stars. That's fairly surprising since they love to give out one star ratings to anything less than cerebral.

Machete: Booze, babes, blood, guts ? and not much attention to detail

This machete is wielded like a truly blunt instrument

Stephen Cole

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Machete

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis

Written by Robert Rodriguez and Alvaro Rodriguez

Starring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Jessica Alba, Cheech Marin and Don Johnson

Classification: 18A

Machete is a drinking man?s The Expendables, a guest-star-studded B-movie action flick with all the party perks an 18A rating allows.

Un tequila m?s, por favor. We?re talking pool orgies. Law-enforcement babe Jessica Alba in and out of uniform. Rows and rows of shot glasses. And for those who fancy a little bit of the old ultra-violence, a sequence in which the title character fashions an out-the-window escape rope from an unwilling accomplice?s intestines.

There are also a few good jokes. Some are explicit ? Robert De Niro plays a Stetson-wearing, corn-pone southern senator. Some you have to chew on a while ? Lindsay Lohan, for instance, dressed up as a nun. Get it? Lohan has a new habit!

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/machete-booze-babes-blood-guts-and-not-much-attention-to-detail/article1694089/

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