“Machete” Garners Positive Reviews on Opening Day
It has plenty of star power and hype to be a hit film, and now “Machete” also has the reviews to back it all up.
The Robert Rodriguez flick has a killer combination of action, wit, and humor that has critics lauding with praise, despite a modest projected opening weekend take.
One review states, “Danny Trejo plays the long-haired, craggy-faced titular Machete with a combination of swift ferocity and baleful kindliness. And the ladies love it. … Trejo invests his character with an engaging blend of swagger, gravity and terse humor. When Alba’s INS agent instructs him to contact her, he snarls, ‘Machete don’t text.’ It’s an instant catchphrase.”
And another critic wrote, “[R]est assured that the political satire and commentary merely provide backdrop for flying bullets, swinging blades, spurting arteries, naked babes and tough-guy one-liners (“Machete don’t text” is tattoo-worthy). The film takes absolutely wild-eyed delight in viscera, gore and grotesquerie (to wit, one poor fellow’s intestine is used as an escape rope, while another man is quite explicitly crucified). … You can’t always count on Rodriguez to get the balance of lunacy, competence and coherence right. But here he more or less gives you exactly what you were looking for: 100 or so minutes as bloody, excessive and ridiculous as those initial 150 or so seconds.”
