Do you like exploitation movies? Do you relish 70s rough-cut, single-linear plotted, badly acted movies with abundance of gore and flesh? If yes, that technically you'd like Robert Rodriguez's Machete. Its taken directly from the Grindhouse trailer which was featured in the Death Proof / Planet Terror openings.So what can you expect? From the tagline, pretty much of alot of everything - decent man to savage who must slaughter to stay alive? Pretty much sums it up.
The Skinny: Bad-ass Mexican Danny Trejo is ex-Federale Machete on revenge mode when he is betrayed by his bosses and the organization.
The Helmer: Robert Rodrigez and Ethan Maniquis - RR: Shorts (2009), Planet Terror (2007), The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl (2005), Sin City (2005), Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003), Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002), Spy Kids (2001), The Faculty (1998), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Desperado (1995),Roadracers (1994), El Mariachi (1992), Bedhead (1991).
The Casts: Danny Trejo (Machete), Robert Deniro (Senator McLaughlin), Michelle Rodriguez (Luz), Lindsay Lohan (April Benz), Jessica Alba (Sartana), Tim Roth (Agent Ringo Orange), Steven Seagal (Torrez), Don Johnson (Lt Stillman), Rose McGowan (Cherry Darling), Sacha Baron Cohen (Col Weathers), Jeff Fahey (Michael Benz), Tome Savini (Deputy Tollo), Cheech Marin (Padre Benito Del Toro).
Release Date: 3rd September 2010
The Prediction: How can this go wrong? You've got revolutionary director Rodriguez, you've got stellar casts led by Deniro, you've got hot chicks and naughty chicks Lohan, Alba and McGowan, you've got ass-kicker Seagal, you've got back-from-the-dead Johnson, you've got I-owe-you-my-life-and-career-mr-rodriguez Fahey, and you've got two funny men Marin and Cohen. Mix it up and you've got staple Rodriguez diet of bad-ass cast running about on a simple-crazy plot with supremo action and gore. This is it folks, the movie for 2010.
