Machete is a spin-off movie from the great 2007 double feature Grindhouse. In Grindhouse we got to see a great “fake” trailer for Machete before director Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. Well, they decided to make it real, and this is the result. Machete is not a movie you take seriously. If you do, you will end up on Fox News and claiming that latinos want to kill white people in their sleep.
Here’s the thing though. It’s just like the Grindhouse movies. Crazy yet awesome things happen. In Planet Terror they stick a machine gun on lead Rose McGowan’s leg. Bruce Willis killed Osama bin Laden and was dosed with zombie gas! Sayid from lost collects testicles! In Death Proof, Rosario Dawson puts her boot through Kurt Russell’s face. These are things that are not going to happen. Similarly, the idea that a Mexican drug cartel is pulling the strings of a rabid anti-immigration Texas state senator who uses his free time to shoot border crossing illegals is a farce. We all know that the rabid anti-immigration supporters are backed by the private prison industry that incarcerates illegal immigrants.
Look. If you didn’t enjoy Grindhouse, you’re not going to enjoy this film. If you did, you still may not. But if you like the idea of a crazy action movie throwback, go watch it because it won’t disappoint.
