Machete Review

DIRECTOR : Robert Rodriguez

CAST : Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Steven Seagal

Screenplay : Robert Rodriguez

NATIONALITY : USA / Mexico

RELEASE DATE : 01/10/2010

SYNOPSIS: Machete is a film by Robert Rodriguez, based on an original trailer shown as an advance in the film's own Rodríguez: Planet Terror .

Starring Danny Trejo and with the participation of Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Jeff Fahey and Lindsay Lohan, follows the adventures of a former Mexican federal agent has to migrate to America to earn a living and will be involved in the attempted murder of a corrupt senator.

Criticism: Bored as we guapita film that many are stuck on a finger and shout Oh! - Do you really imagine someone gets Robert Pattinson or Josh Harnet shoving a bullet between the eyes to the evil of the function with a grim smile on his lips drawn? - The presence of secondary Danny Trejo, the Mexican hard, ugly, full of tattoos and scars, is always a gratifying return to the old heroes of the films of John Ford and Sergio Leone.

This was because many welcomed with joy the news that was to become a Machete . the false progress that served as a rallying point, with Werewolf Women of the SS (Rob Zombie), Thanksgiving (Eli Roth) and Do not (Edgar Wright), between the two films that made ​​up the double session of Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino, 2007), in a real movie.

The truth is that the character of Machete was born in Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, 1995), later we see him in Spy Kids 2 (Robert Rodriguez, 2002), in several commercials and even video games. With such background, the Texan filmmaker had it pretty easy at the time of writing the first starring role Trejo. I will not cheat, Machete is a bad movie, very bad, and this time, not even the excuse it because it is a tribute to the Z Series film of the seventies.

We could point to the irregular use of chromium or the obvious failures raccord but, as happened in Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez, 2007), all part of tacky falsely deliberate aesthetic that permeates the film. The bad thing about Machete is a crazy and confusing script begins to be lost within five minutes to start the story and, upon reaching the first half hour of footage, no one understands why the characters behave the way they do not, for that matter, any damn thing.

And yet the story is simpler than the mechanism of a jug: Machete is a Mexican federal agent who is used to bypass the computer and follow only their instincts.

During the hostage rescue a kidnapping, is betrayed and, after finishing with a knife plunged into the gut, is presumed dead. Of course, it succumbs (what kind of action hero would be if a simple accident with a knife ready to leave the papers?).

Decides to flee to the United States and, devoid of identity, as a laborer and lives badly performing basic gardening. Their situation undergoes a dramatic turn when a man named Michael Benz (Jeff Hafey), took him by one of the many Mexicans who have crossed the border illegally, proposes threatening the life of Senator McLaughlin (Robert De Niro).

One of the most surprising aspects of Machete is the large cast of familiar faces that populate the film. While most performances are gray and boring, in this sense, the work (call it that) by Robert De Niro is particularly regrettable.