Machete

The movie 'Machete' is pretty amazing.  It is in the same vein as the other Grindhouse movies; simply an excuse for awesome stuff to happen.  When Machete cut into a mook's gut and used his intestine to jump out of a window and swing back into a lower floor it cemented the awesomeness of the movie for me.  This movie wasn't going to take itself seriously and was just going to take the viewer on a wild ride.

The plot is the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a low budget action film.  Some guy came up with this absurd story and got some guys together with some money and made a cheap film.  Except with Machete, the guy is Robert Rodriguez and the movie is a big budget feature film.

I feel like everything I have to say about the film spoils some part of it.  Which is kind of funny because I've kind of been saying that the plot's just some excuse for all this crazy stuff to happen.  And it is.  But it is also entertaining in itself.  Rodriguez and Rodriguez wrote an amazing script.  And I seem to write awful movie reviews.  But if you enjoyed Planet Terror and Death Proof and you've enjoyed the Machete trailer, then you know what to expect, and I imagine it will blow your expectations away.

Coming up next time, my horrendously written review of NBC's Las Vegas.

at Sunday, January 30, 2011