islandclaws

It was cut; I didn't see it either.

As for anyone who gets offended... well, that's the kind of person who shouldn't be seeing this in the first place. I'm a white American, and I thought it was a riot!

Boba Fett

I loved it. An A+ or (4.5/5.0)
My Review

GenPion

I had a mixed reaction to the film. Maybe I'll enjoy it more with a second viewing. Generally speaking, I absolutely 100% love anything by Rodriguez. Here's my review: http://cinemadailies.com/2010/09/04/machete-2010/

anomynous

I was extremely pleased with the movie, and I've been waiting for it since April 6, 2007.

LiquidSky

I just got back from seeing the movie and loved it!

DarthMarino

This pretty much sums up my thoughts on both the film and Rodriguez's career. I had the same reaction watching this as I did when I watched Once Upon a Time in Mexico. I had a decent time watching both movies but they kind of fell flat overall. Too many uninteresting stories going on (in movies that aren't long enough to have this many stories). As a result, the main characters didn't have nearly enough screen time. At least in Once Upon a Time in Mexico Johhny Depp was there to save the day when Banderas wasn't featured enough. In Machete, it felt like Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez were picking up the slack when Machete wasn't around and I didn't particularly care about their stories. Like in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Machete was comprised of lots of little fun scenes in their own right but it just doesn't gel in the grand scheme of things.

Will I get the Blu Ray when it comes out? For sure, but I once again feel like Rodriguez has come up short.

Solid Snake

This....

Moopher

Wow, I totally loved this movie. Just what I was looking for.

Solid Snake

And it all started from this. I loved how the whole Grindhouse film had to live up to this trailer cuz they had to start it w/ this. I was laughing like a crazy motherfucker at this thing....

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Chet Desmond

That was a great nod to classic blaxploitation flicks. There's always an evil white guy in a suit and he's usually involved in distributing drugs.

PopcornBandit

It was everything I hoped it would be and definitely lived up to my expectations.

Mike86

Absolutely loved this. One of my favorites this year after a sort of disappointing summer. Can't wait to get it on Blu-ray!!

gmanca

This was very awesome! Loved the Ice Cream cart guy and there were some very funny parts but just as many that didn't work as well as they should, like how none of the lowriders had an awesome horn.

Howie2000

That's what she said.

Troy Stiffler

This movie delivers.

Packed full with characters, they couldn't do much more than offer a couple 'moments' for each character. But the buildup and reveal is what I find awesome in movies. The actual action events are rarely interesting.

Dan1boy

Awesome...we had a great time. And that's what counts when you shell out for a movie these days.

Bummer was that a few parents brought their, albeit thankfully well behaved, little kids to this film which was about as close to an NC-17 as one could imagine. Shameful and selfish. HIRE A BABYSITTER.

SPiRAL

I loved the entire end, battle scene. Especially when

Moopher

Worry about your own kids

Boba Fett

I honestly wouldn't mind seeing a sequel where Sh้ was the focus (although the reveal of her as Sh้ with the eyepatch should have never been featured in ads, it would have been an epic character reveal). Michelle Rodriguez is a great action star and I felt she was really underused in that final scene; the swivel holster with the sawed off shotgun was beyond awesome.

FantasticVSDoom

Loved the movie and agree with this as the sequel or spinoff if it could happen (which i doubt but I can wish...)

Troy Stiffler

She's definately underused. But that's Rodriguez's style. He's afraid he's going to bore us with too much information (and he might). He does that 'get them in, pay them off, get them out' technique. He definately did it in From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. The Desperado is probably his "deepest" character.

Like I mentioned before, it's like all of the characters have their own 'moments' in the movie. But a movie trying to flesh out a character probably wouldn't work. All of the underlying imagination disappears when we're given too much. Kind of like Terminator: Salvation, the Matrix sequels, etc. I think that "wouldn't that be awesome" longing is better than actually having the material delivered.

Solid Snake

Uhm.....it's not Desperado....he's El Mariachi


Also...does anyone know anything about Maniquis? He's the co-director on this film and all I know from him is that he's been a longtime editor w/ Rodriguez. I've yet to see him in any interviews and whatnot. It's all RR from what I've seen.

SPiRAL

Where was that chick hiding her cell phone, in the beginning ?

RocShemp

Well, El Mariachi was a Desperado in the sequel... Yeah, I got nothing.

dsa_shea

I don't know why they kept pronouncing her name as "She" instead of "Shay" since it is written as Sh้. I thought it was a nod to Che until they ruined it with the stupid pronunciation. I really enjoyed the movie and only ask that they get rid of the Johnny Depp wannabe pansy they had playing as the son of Johnson's character. That guy had asshat written all over.