Based on the enormously popular fake Grindhouse trailer Machete, this action-packed, border-sploitation feature adaptation has steely character actor Danny Trejo returning as the titular knife-wielding ex-Federale. Double-crossed and left for dead, Machete uncovers a conspiracy involving the man who set him up (Jeff Fahey), a powerful Texas politician (Robert De Niro), and his-ex-partner-turned-crime-lord responsible for killing Machete’s family (Steven Seagal). Also featuring Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Tom Savini, and Lindsey Lohan, all in colorful, unexpected places, it’s a blood-soaked path to holy vengeance because they just fucked with the wrong Mexican!
“The pace is swift, the tone playful, the screenplay peppered with one-liners. Whether mowed down by gunfire or dispatched by sheaves of blades, the bodies pile up in split-second blasts of carnage.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
“Here’s Robert Rodriguez’s Machete to show us how it’s done: with wit, moviemaking skill, and a cast to die for. The movie’s an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It’s also Rodriguez’s freest movie yet, and possibly his best.” – Ty Burr, Boston Globe
