vitachiel Machete is a trademark Rodriguez film with all the right ingredients: a tragicomic anti-hero, strong and sexy lady fighters, graphic, proportionless violence, black humor, rebellion and love-to-hate villains. However, the problem with Rodriguez is that he has a knack to overdo things. I mean it's cool to have a famous actor play the bad guy, but here we have evil Robert de Niro, evil Don Johnson, evil Jeff Fahey ánd evil Steven Seagall. And the orgasmic finale is so full of bizarre and cartoonesque brutality that all subtlety and credibility is lost. Of course, Rodriguez doesn't have any intention to be subtle or credible, but he could at least adhere a bit more to the adagium 'less is more' to create a smoother movie experience (which led his buddy Tarantino to absolute stardom). Still, Machete is much better and for sure a lot more entertaining than 90% of what is produced these days, so we shouldn't be too hard on Rodriguez. And above all we have to accept that we will never again see anything coming close to his all-time masterpiece Sin City...

zhorzh-06796 Literally the worst movie (if not by quality than the most irritating) I've ever seen. Cheap thrills, sexuality and violence are exaggerated without story or motif backup. I'm aware that this is the grindhouse movie, but it's totally pointless.

fcabanski As a grindhouse movie it's a 10. The acting is overall terrific - Alba is only pretty bad, which is very good for her. The action is terrific. The story is terrific - it's crazy, it twists all around the place, that's terrific.But the Hollyweirdos who made it couldn't help but throw in glorifying illegals and demonizing people who want a secure border in America. The political message is misplaced. But Hollyweirdos can't help themselves."Don't take it seriously, it's exploitation...except people who are anti immigrant are racist." Yes, I purposely used "immigrant" instead of "illegal". People in Hollyweird can't demonize those who want a secure border without lying. So the constant message is about people who are against immigrants rather than the truth - people are against illegals breaking into the country.The political message is a -10, so it pulls the movie down to a 0. 1 is the lowest rating. It's a 1.

RbDeraj While I enjoyed the fake trailer in Grindhouse and looked forward to the full length film, this turned out to be a real disappointment. It started out well, but after the title sequence quickly went downhill. The storyline wasn't very good and the liberal criticism of conservative views on immigration (while its purpose was humor) was just was too much. They were just beating the dead horse after a while. I didn't expect the acting to be top notch especially from some like Lindsay Lohan or Jessica Alba, but it was even worse than I imagined even from Robert De Niro. As highly esteemed as he is I can't see why he chose to be in a film like this. The effects weren't good even if you enjoy and wanted to see over-the-top gore and violence which is some of the draw towards this movie in a dark sinister type of way. The action just seemed stupid after a while and towards the end I was just waiting for the film to be over. Que horrible y decepcionante!