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‘Dinner for Schmucks’ and ‘Machete’ among new DVD releases
Jan 8th
A meal of mirth and a razor-sharp action thriller are among the new Blu-ray and DVD releases.
Dinner for Schmucks (Blu-ray). Paramount Home Entertainment ($29.99).
The lowdown: Paul Rudd stars as a budding executive who, to climb the ladder to success, must bring the perfect guest to his boss’ monthly dinner party.
His choice is Barry (Steve Carell), who re-creates famous works of art with stuffed mice.
The byplay between the two leads is fun, as is the film as a whole.
The comedy was released on July 30. It cost $69 million to produce and earned $73 million in the United States and $13.3 million overseas.
“Dinner” did not go down well with critics, who gave it a 44-percent positive rating at Rottentomatoes.com, where Gannett chief film critic Bill Goodykoontz was in the minority, noting that “Steve Carell is the best comic actor working today.”
The Blu-ray’s audio and visual transfers are very clear and sharp.
Don’t miss: Extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette with cast members, a look at the artist who created the mousterpieces, outtakes, a LeBron James press conference spoof with Rudd and Carell, deleted scenes and a meet-the-winners featurette about the special dinner guests.
Rated: PG-13, crude and sexual content, partial nudity, language.
Critic’s rating: Three stars (Good).
Machete (Blu-ray & DVD). Fox Home Entertainment ($39.99 Blu-ray; $29.98
DVD) language, sexual situations.
The lowdown: Robert Rodriguez’s continuation of his homage to the exploitation movies of the 1970s stars Danny Trejo as an ex-Federale out for revenge against a drug lord who killed his family.
The movie, despite its excessive violence, has a sense of fun and humor.
“Machete” swung into theaters on Sept. 13. Rodriguez produced the movie for a mere $10.5 million and earned $26.5 million domestically and $14 million overseas.
Critics enjoyed the film, giving it a 72-percent positive rating on the tomatometer. Claudia Puig of USA TODAY wrote, “Rodriguez combines sharp satire and timely political commentary with a decidedly B-movie ethos.”
The digital transfers are very sharp.
Don’t miss: Deleted scenes are the major bonus features.
Rated: R, graphic and bloody violence, nudity.
Critic’s rating: Three stars (Good).
On DVD Tuesday: ‘Machete,’ ‘Catfish,’ ‘Last Exorcism’
Jan 4th
“Machete” (R): The fake movie trailer from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 “Grindhouse” worked beautifully as a few-minute, ultraviolent homage to 1970s exploitation films. Danny Trejo’s a Mexican worker/assassin betrayed by his employers and out for vengeance. The punchline of the trailer is Trejo strapping a Gatling gun onto a motorcycle and mowing down the bad guys. While flying. The trailer’s perfect because it’s brief.
But then Rodriguez ill-advisedly bloated his little idea into a 105-minute feature length film, starring Robert De Niro as a villain, Jessica Alba as a love interest and Lindsay Lohan as an excuse for a coy nude scene.
Co-directed by Rodriguez’ longtime editor Ethan Maniquis, “Machete” is a love letter to bad cinema, its every frame dedicated to being bad. It’s wholly successful.
“Machete’s” really just the latest example of a trend in which movies aim to be ironically bad. Think “Snakes on a Plane” or Rodriguez’s own “Planet Terror.” It used to be that a bad movie was a movie that was intended to be good and failed at it. Nowadays, the badness is the intent. With each intentionally awful movie, I find that the burgeoning art form is less postmodern wink and more laziness. Grade: D-
“The Last Exorcism” (PG-13): This Satanic mockumentary is a cut above most modern horror movies. Cotton (Patrick Fabian) is a preacher/exorcist who no longer believes in God or demons. He invites a documentary film crew to the backwoods of Louisiana to film his final exorcism and to debunk himself and his practice as a fraud. Unfortunately, this case might be the real thing. The potentially possessed is a sweet teen girl (Ashley Bell) prone to self-mutilation and cat-killing. “The Last Exorcism” is smartly made, well-acted and deeply scary. And in between jolts, the filmmakers manage to inject a few satirical jabs at modern religion. Grade: B+
“Catfish” (PG-13): The less you know about “Catfish,” the better. Let’s leave it at this: It’s a documentary about a guy who enters an online relationship with a girl and then goes to meet her and she’s not quite what he expected or how she portrayed herself. Funny, suspenseful and heartbreaking. Grade: B+
“Dinner for Schmucks” (PG-13): Paul Rudd’s bosses have this mean habit of inviting idiots to dinner parties and making fun of them. Rudd finds his own dinner party idiot in the form of Steve Carell.
“Howl” (R): Dramatization of the obscenity trial of Allen Ginsberg’s work, with James Franco as Ginsberg and Jon Hamm as his lawyer. “Howl” is set to run Jan. 28 to Feb. 3 at the Ross Media Arts Center if you prefer to see it on the big screen.
‘Machete’ cuts loose on DVD
Jan 1st
‘Machete’ cuts loose on DVD Published: Saturday, January 01, 2011, 5:00 PM 
By Chris Ball, The Plain Dealer
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Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s homage to B-movie action flicks dishes up blood and babes but little inspiration.
Veteran actor Danny Trejo rarely changes his expression in his first lead role, as a betrayed Mexican cop seeking revenge.
Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez take turns showing interest in him, Alba as an immigration agent and Rodriguez as a gun-toting rebel.
The big question: Why is Robert De Niro appearing in a film with Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Don Johnson and Cheech Marin?
R, 105 minutes. Grade: C-. Extras: B. In stores Tuesday, Jan. 4.
‘Machete’ is modern ‘Mexploitation’ at its gory best
Sep 10th
‘Machete’ is modern ‘Mexploitation’ at its gory best By Jenny Kobiela-Mondor Friday, 10 September 2010 10:45
For the right kind of moviegoer, “Machete” is the perfect movie.
If goofy gore, over-the-top action and plot and dialogue straight out of a Mexploitation movie are your thing, you’ll probably be as entertained as I was by “Machete.”
The movie follows the story of Machete (Danny Trejo), a former Mexican Federale who, after a dustup with a drug lord named Torrez (Steven Seagal), is relegated to being a day laborer in Texas. Machete (named after his weapon of choice) is hired to assassinate Senator McLaughlin (Robert De Niro), whose campaign platform is to deport immigrants and build an electrified fence.
Unfortunately, Machete is double-crossed by the man who hired him, Booth (Jeff Fahey), and spends the rest of the movie trying to avoid the people who want to kill him. Machete is not without help, however — he enlists She (Michelle Rodriguez), a woman who works underground to bring immigrants across the border; Sartana (Jessica Alba), an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent; and his brother, Padre (Cheech Marin).
The cast of “Machete” is a surreal dream. I never thought I’d see De Niro and Steven Seagal in the same movie, not to mention adding Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Lindsay Lohan to the mix. I wasn’t sure that the cast would work together well, but it is such a weird mix that it actually works perfectly.
The plot moves along at a great clip, and I was entertained the entire time I was watching “Machete.” It comes across as a silly B movie, but it’s clear that Rodriguez lovingly crafted this movie and deliberately made it Bad-with-a-capital-B. It reminded me of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill,” insomuch as the quirky styles are part of the grand joke of the whole movie. Everybody in the audience is in on the joke, as long as they know enough to understand what style Rodriguez is referencing. If you don’t, I suspect you will be very, very confused by “Machete.”
The movie definitely has a pro-immigration undercurrent going on and Rodriguez lays it on a little thick at points, but regardless of politics, the real beauty of “Machete” is its gleeful badness. There are cartoonishly gruesome killings every few minutes, scantily clad women around every corner, comically large knives and guns in everyone’s arsenal and, of course, a huge shootout at the end. Stylistically, it’s spot-on. It’s a campy guilty pleasure and a brilliant homage to ’70s exploitation films.
Jenny’s Take: See it before it leaves theaters.
(Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language, some sexual content and nudity. Runs 105 minutes.)
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Danny Trejo stars as a legendary ex-Federale in a scene from “Machete.” (AP/20TH CENTURY FOX)
MACHETE : Sliced, Diced, Copped & Reviewed by Shadowgeek10
Sep 9th
MACHETE
(2010)
FEATURING: Danny Trejo’, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Lindsey Lohan, Steven Seagal & Robert Deniro
Produced by: Robert Rodriguez Aaron Kaufman Iliana Nikolic Rick Schwartz
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Written by: Robert Rodriguez & Álvaro Rodriguez
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis
Robert Rodriguez is a veritable one man band when it comes to his brand of “filmmaking”. I have been acquainted with his type of film (Recently branded “Mexploitation.) since 1995’s Desperado. I count the soundtrack of that film as one of my top favorites even today.
I watched a number of Robert’s films over the years and I’ve come to one conclusion.
Robert Rodriguez doesn’t do endings…well, if at all. Nope, he can’t finish.
At the conclusion of Desperado, Antonio Banderas’ heroic mariachi character discovers that his arch villain is actually his “brother” (yes, Rodriguez actually pulled an “Empire Strikes Back on his “smark” audience.). This is one of the cheapest and laziest ways to end a movie.
Another thing Rodriguez is great at doing is creating visually interesting characters…and then doing nothing with them. I cite “From Dusk til Dawn” as a prime example. The character of Satanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek in her prime no less..). This Aztec Vampire Queen is introduced and dispatched in less than five minutes.
That being said … Machete has a GREAT OPENING !! Five minutes in and I’m sold on Danny Trejo as this Ultimate Badass.
After that, well … things get a little muddled to say the least.
The story revolves around an immigrant, Machete (Danny Trejo), a former Mexican Federale turned renegade. After a shakedown with a druglord (Steven Seagal), Machete roams Texas looking to do yard work in exchange for money. Michael Booth (Jeff Fahey), a local businessman and spin doctor, explains to Machete that the corrupt Senator McLaughlin (Robert De Niro) is sending hundreds of illegal’s out of the country.
In order to stop this, Booth offers Machete $150,000 to kill McLaughlin. Machete accepts the murder contract. As Machete attempts to assassinate McLaughlin during a rally, he is double-crossed and one of Booth’s henchmen shoots him. It is revealed that Booth orchestrated the entire attempted assassination as part of a false flag operation to gain public support for McLaughlin’s harsh anti-illegal-immigration laws.
By setting up Machete as the patsy, the conspirators make it appear that an outlaw illegal Mexican immigrant has tried to assassinate the senator.
This is the basic premise of “Machete” and Trejo runs with what little he has been given in this … his vanity project. I like Danny Trejo, don’t get me wrong. He has been in a hell of a lot of movies. He appears to be Rodriguez’s muse, so this movie is completely justified in my eyes. A lot of people have been put off by what they suspect is some type of political pro-illegal dogma that runs through the movie.
Don’t’ be … It’s just more lazy script writing by all parties involved. Machete’s origins lie in a movie two years back, a cinematic faux exploitation movie known as “Grindhouse”. Quentin Tarantino and Rodriguez filmed two separate movies as a double feature complete with pseudo trailers (one of which was Machete.) included. Rodriguez’s segment “Planet Terror” was definitely the better of the two movies melded together in a disappointing failure at the box office.
Machete drags it’s cinematic feet after it’s first initial five minutes of grind house glory. Everything other than the action scenes, which I suspect were exclusively filmed by Rodriguez feels labored… almost like a film school project.
The inclusions of Jessica Alba seems tacked on in light of the fact that this “film” already has a strong lead in Michelle Rodriguez’s “SHE” character. Alba meanders around the film trying to look cop tough, but it just doesn’t work. Alba simply doesn’t belong in a Robert Rodriguez “movie”. Everything about Machete screams exploitation except for this actress.
It is well known that Rodriguez almost always includes liberal amounts of nudity in his films and this film is no different with Mayra Leal (completely nude) kicking off the festivities at the five minute mark. Alba does not do nudity and some have sighted this as one of the things that tainted FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY collaboration with Rodriguez in 2005.
Rodriguez actually had to take time and budget to digitally superimpose Alba’s face onto a nude model for a shower scene. Why? Why not just cast Leal in the role since Alba has made it clear that she’s not doing nudity? Machete was reportedly budgeted at 20 million. Think about how many computer techs had to work on digitally stripping Alba. That money probably could have been spent on more effects shots.
And speaking of nudity and effects … I’d like to address Lindsey Lohan’s presence in this movie at this time. Lohan has been stunt cast as the troubled daughter of Jeff Fahey’s Michael Booth. In what is essentially a cameo, Lohan appears in a disheveled state and semi-nude in at least three scenes (Honestly, I wish they would have superimposed Lohan’s face onto her 2005 body.). There’s some poor editing in Lohan’s introduction scene where it is quite visible that an Hispanic extra is subbing for her. This made me think that Rodriguez hadn’t acquired her services at that time. Her scenes all appear to be shot in one day, judging from the ill-fitting nun’s habit that she wears near it’s conclusion.
I really can’t fault Lindsey Lohan for appearing in Machete. It’s hard to fight addiction, public apathy and stay relevant while trying to keep her day job. More power to her.
However there are a trio of supposed actors that I would like to take to task for appearing in this “film”.
Those individuals would be Steven Segal (in “Brown face” no less), Don Johnson (Doing a confederate civil war enactment apparently.) … and last but definitely not least … ROBERT DENIRO (An Oscar Winning actor & Hollywood Icon / Archetype).
I can understand Segal and Johnson snatching up all the free money Rodriguez was burning with this project, but Deniro made my heart sink appearing in this project as incumbent Texas senator McLaughlin. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I heard Deniro using a thick southern accent and phoning in another performance (ala Jackie Brown).
He appears to be taking the John Carradine route late in his career. I almost wish it would have been Christopher Walken in the role instead. With Walken you can believe anything, Deniro … I always expect him to be some sort of principled thug, it’s the kind of role he made famous and is most identified by unfortunately. Typecast busting or not … Deniro should have passed this one up ( I suspect he never thought it would see the light of day outside of the bargain bin at Sam Goodies.).
All this being said, the question remains … “Is Machete a GOOD FILM?”
That answer would be a DEFINITIVE “NO”.
But you could do a lot worse in what has been an extremely poor summer for lovers of film in all it’s myriad forms and genres.
USA Today called MACHETE a.ka. Danny Trejo a MEXICAN SUPERHERO. After viewing the movie, I can not argue with that at least. If only Machete was given more to do in his own starring vehicle. If only Rodriguez cared enough to direct more than just the action scenes.
MACHETE gets 2 out of 5 stars.
…shadowgeek10 returns to the shadows once more.
Rodriguez delivers with ‘Machete’
Sep 7th
Robert Rodriguez is one hell of a businessman. After “Grindhouse” was a commercial failure, the pitch to make a spin-off Mexploitation film that was grittier, dirtier and not as much of a spoof as his previous work “Planet Terror” could not have been an easy task to tackle. Thankfully, Rodriguez was successful as “Machete” made its way to the big screen, and is as loud, exciting and fun as Rodriguez’ “fake” trailer had promised.
In a summer movie season that was essentially a creative failure, it was a relief to sit down in the theater in the hands of an action director who clearly knows what he’s doing. While Rodriguez may not be a name to make bank in the eyes of Hollywood (beyond his successful children’s series, “Spy Kids”) he is a popular cult-director, with fan-favorites such as “Sin City” and “Desperado.” “Machete” is no exception to his successful track record with action films, and is most likely to garner the same status as his previous works. While underground cinema seems to have found a new fascination with over-the-top exploitation cinema, such as “The Room” and “Black Dynamite,” “Machete” is a bit subtler. While still humorous and self-aware throughout the entire film, “Machete” also leaves room to be enjoyed without being laughed at. The action scenes and assorted kills are choreographed and executed perfectly. Rodriguez displays that he has a knack for keeping his audience at the edge of their seats, wrapped up in a single moment.
With that being said, the plot of the film was certainly a weakness. The viewers of “Machete” are either going to enjoy Rodriguez’ stylized homage to exploitation cinema, or a mindless action movie, leaving the need for an intricate and well-developed plot by the wayside. The film is certainly more developed plot-wise than “Planet Terror”, but it’s not necessarily to the viewers benefit. While it provides a substantial means for the action to take place and the characters to develop, there’s a point in the film where the plot becomes unimportant for the viewer and they’re only waiting for the next big kill. Thankfully, Rodriguez is aware of this and never slows the film down.
And the set-ups he provides for the film are as crazy and gleefully silly as his fans would hope them to be. From Machete using someone’s intestines as a rope to swing off of a building, to a threesome involving Lindsay Lohan and her mother, the film is an entertaining exploitation cinema at it’s best. Rodriguez knows what his audience wants, and gives it back to them with more than they could have expected. The biggest successes of the film lie in the fact that, while the film is a mindless action movie, it ensures that individual scenes are unique and fresh, without borrowing too heavily from trends and styles of the modern day action flick.
Another factor of the success of the film relies on absolutely ingenious casting decisions by Rodriguez and company. From cult hits to major stars, the actors genuinely seem to be having a blast filming the movie, and all bring their individual talents to light. Danny Trejo is hilarious as the virtually silent Machete, performing in a role that seems to have been created for him. Steven Seagal, Robert DeNiro, and Michelle Rodriguez also add unique color to the film, but the biggest hit of the cameo goes to Lindsay Lohan. It seems that there’s a bit of self-referential humor in the character, making her on-screen appearance as a bratty internet “star” turned vigilante dressed as a nun one of the highlights of the movie.
The film ends with a promise of two sequels, “Machete Kills” and “Machete Kills Again”. While most likely an empty promise to serve as a good laugh at the conclusion of the film, hopefully Rodriguez continues his obsession with Grindhouse films. It’s proving to be some of the most entertaining popcorn cinema to be making its way to the silver screen.
Machete slashes all competitors in the Friday box office
Sep 4th
Machete slashes all competitors in the Friday box office
Robert Rodriguez is an interesting director. His first movie, El Mariachi, was made out of a budget of only around $7000 that he mostly raised by participating in medical research studies. The movie has become a cult classic, winning the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
Since then, Rodriguez has made many successful movies, including the hugely successful Spy Kids series, Sin City (as co-director), Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He has directed one half of the controversial double feature Grindhouse – Planet Terror.
Machete is a movie with an interesting story, too. Initially it was just a fake trailer inserted as an intermission in Planet Terror, but it was so popular that Rodriguez has decided to transform it into a movie. Even more: besides the protagonist Danny Trejo (also cast in Desperado, Spy Kids, Predators), we can meet such great actors as Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Stephen Seagal, Jeff Fahey and Don Johnson.
Machete was one of the most expected titles of this year, especially by Rodriguez-fans. When it finally got released on Friday, it quickly occupied the first place of the American box office: it produced an income of $3.9 million, beating such titles as The American ($3.8 million), Takers ($3 million), The Last Exorcism ($2.3 million) and Going the Distance ($2.2 million.
Machete is a mind-blowing movie (Rodriguez has made quite a few of those), it has action, slice-and-dice, rough heroes and sexy women. Machete is an ex-Federale who is framed for an assassination and seeks revenge.
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Movie Review: Machete
Sep 4th
Machete
Directed by Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez
Screenplay by Robert Rodriguez and Álvaro Rodríguez
Danny Trejo as Machete
Robert De Niro as Senator McLaughlin
Jessica Alba as Sartana
Steven Seagal as Torrez
Michelle Rodriguez as Luz
Jeff Fahey as Booth
Cheech Marin as Padr
Don Johnson as Lt. Stillman
Shea Whigham as Sniper
Lindsay Lohan as April
CLR Rating: 
Danny Trejo stars as Machete
“Machete” is Robert Rodriguez’s best movie in years,
and his most political.
Robert Rodriguez has been called a lot of things: awesome, exploitative, prolific, Robert… but high-minded? That’s a new one. Rodriguez slices and dices his way back onto the screen with Machete, a flamboyantly manly action film based on the standalone trailer from Grindhouse, about an ex-Federale swept up in an anti-immigration conspiracy. Along the way he maims, murders and/or fornicates every living thing in sight. He is a living legend: a Schwarzenegger for the other side of the border. He is Machete, and Robert Rodriguez views him as a living God of Mexican Pride who both confirms and overpowers every stereotype imaginable with his paradoxical blend of goodness and homicidal mania. If every illegal immigrant were this mindbogglingly incredible we’d be opening our borders and offering free t-shirts. But then, that’s kind of Rodriguez’s point: Maybe every illegal immigrant is this incredible. They’re human beings, after all.
Danny Trejo, who must either be Robert Rodriguez’s best friend or worst blackmailer to be given this kind of star treatment, stars as the titular character Machete, a heroic Federale whose family was murdered by the evil drug kingpin Torrez, played by Steven Seagal (who actually seems to be having fun for a change). Machete leaves Mexico for Texas, where illegal immigrants are second class citizens… except for the whole “citizen” part. Immigration is a hot button issue with cartoonishly conservative Senator McLaughlin (Robert DeNiro, with better material than he’s used to lately), so a shady character named Booth (Jeff Fahey, never better) hires Machete blindly off the street to assassinate the troublesome politician. Everything immediately goes awry and Machete finds himself the most wanted man in America, the victim of a broader conspiracy involving politics, drugs and a giant electrified fence threatening to spread like wildfire across the Mexican/American border.
Machete was co-directed by Rodriguez’s editor Ethan Maniquis, but it’s unclear how the duties were divided between them: This feels like a Robert Rodriguez joint if there ever was one. Certainly they were both on the same page. Machete follows the Grindhouse school of filmmaking with a low-budget visual style punctuated by moments of striking imagination, often betraying the film’s larger-than-thematically-appropriate price tag. Like Planet Terror and Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Rodriguez pads out a pretty thin narrative with a myriad of distinctive supporting characters, from Spy Kids’ Daryl Sabara as an adopted Chollo to a particularly naked Lindsay Lohan, who spends most of her screentime with her Mom (Alicia Marek), who is also naked. Unlike Planet Terror and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, these digressions don’t get in the way of a coherent storyline, as they are all (with the slight exception of the stunt-casted Lohan) connected to Rodriguez’s recurring theme of building modern Mexican legends.
Rodriguez of course began his career with El Mariachi, a genuinely low-budget action classic about a normal guitar-toting street musician fighting for his life after being mistaken for a deadly assassin. The film combined elements of classic Hitchcock (mistaken identities, everyman action heroes) and classic John Woo (the visual aesthetic and focus on shootouts) to turn the harmless mariachi archetype into a warrior myth. While Rodriguez also explored this character to some success in Desperado, which found our mariachi struggling to boost his own urban legend despite the fact that he’s obviously a lovable goof, Once Upon a Time in Mexico rang false. The legend had been built, but the character himself disappeared in a fog of badass action movie clichés and self-congratulatory nonsense (entertaining though it may have been). Machete takes the opposite tack and presents itself up front as a 1980’s power fantasy. Machete has no character to speak of besides his belief in truth, justice and the illegal immigrant way. He’s shockingly violent to those who deserve it, and has sex with just about everyone else. Unlike Rodriguez’s original hero, Machete is born into his world fully realized as a Herculean superman. The lack of character development doesn’t detract from the story but instead informs every frame. This is a man of action. Thinking is a lesser concern.
So it’s amusing then that despite Machete’s broad humor and insanity-fueled action sequences (you’ll never look at a lower intestine the same way again) the film comes across as a valuable political document. Rodriguez and Maniquis mask their message movie in the machinations of mindless media. Not that theirs is a complicated concept: Immigrants are people too, they claim (shocking, I know), while also reminding audiences that there are other important issues at hand regarding the Mexican border; not just the flow of narcotics but also the very real fact that much of America depends on cheap migrant labor. It’s a little surprising to find that a film that embraces such flighty interpretations of entertainment as staring at Jessica Alba naked in the shower has such a well-conceived conspiracy at the heart of it all: complicated but plausible, even compared to larger mainstream hits like Quantum of Solace and Clash of the Titans. Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to find that this supposedly brainless piece of mainstream entertainment has something on its mind other than Lindsay Lohan’s breasts, Jessica Alba’s ass and Michelle Rodriguez’s abdominal muscles.
But of course all of these noble ambitions result in little more than a series of massive shootouts where every character shows up even if they have no right, reason or even the address necessary to be there. Still, these are some wonderful shootouts, punctuating an equally wonderful film. Violent but never pessimistic, funny but still worth taking seriously, and sexy but surprisingly chaste (actually, that last part may not be a good thing). Rodriguez and Maniquis have succeeded not just in turning a joke trailer into a worthy film, but also in making Rodriguez’s best movie in years. Machete puts the “mind” back in “mindless entertainment,” and kicks your ass without ever insulting your intelligence.
Machete Trailer
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Weekend Movie Forecast: Machete Vs. The American
Sep 3rd
This week’s new movies include Machete, The American, Going the Distance, Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1, A Gun, A Woman And A Noodle Shop, The Winning Season, Last Train Home, White Wedding, My Dog Tulip, Prince of Broadway, Etienne!, Max Manus, Our Beloved Month Of August, Clear Blue Tuesday, and The Big Uneasy, plus Pulp Fiction and 2001: A Space Odyssey in repertory.
