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t started with a trailer: a fake movie ad “left missile he’s bought with his ill-gotten millions, over” from the 1970s for a Mexploitation flick from launching the thing at Washington, D.C., dropped into Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse intended as a sort of WMD middle finger to U.S. ... which Robert Rodriguez later expanded into arrogance. the very funny and pointedly satirical full-length The plot, in the grand scheme, sounds actionMachete. Now, the sequel, Machete Kills, opens with movie straightforward enough. It’s in the details a new fake 1970s relic trailer, for, heh, Machete that the brilliant foolishness comes to the fore Kills Again in Space. It hints at a completely ridicu(and accidentally holds up for ridicule the sorts lous expansion of the Machete legend into Star of action movie plots we yawn at nowadays). Wars-era space opera, and it’s as many degrees The President is played by Carlos Estevez... that of insanity beyond where Machete would be Charlie Sheen, of course, MACHETE KILLS Kills will take you. in a wicked riff on his father’s Rated R Never let it be said that Roturn in the role in a more serious driguez lets any fear of embracing Directed by Robert Rodriguez capacity. The drug lord is played cartoonish absurdity stop him. His Starring Danny Trejo, Carlos Esteby Demian Bichir, a serious acwonderful recklessness isn’t always vez, Demian Bichir, Amber Heard tor turned very, very goofy here. successful — his Spy Kids movies Machete’s control operative in San quickly became an embarrassment Antonio is... Miss San Antonio — but so far, so good with the former Mexican (Amber Heard), because beauty pageants turn Federale-turned-knife-wielding man of justice and out to provide awesome cover for a secret agent bloody mayhem. (apparently no one expects a blonde Barbie who This time out, forget about the socially condreams of world peace to be plotting covert ops). scious core that fueled the exploitation engine of All that beautiful idiocy is front-loaded into the first film. Rodriguez has gone for flat-out, noMachete Kills. There’s so much more beyond that. message action comedy that is so outrageously It hasn’t even gotten anywhere near Lady Gaga over-the-top violent, it’s impossible to object to as a hired killer after Machete, or Mel Gibson any of it. The human body, when it meets a helias... well, you’ll see. copter — we see that here, but it simply wouldn’t The whole thing is completely preposterous happen. Yet it’s so inventively gory that I laughed in the best way. Rodriguez uses cheap ’70s film my head off. gimmicks and tropes in smart, funny ways, parMachete (Danny Trejo) is invited, no refusal ticularly to underscore the problems today’s movallowed, by the President of the United States to ies often have with treating women as disposable head on down to Mexico and pull off a job that props. When misogyny is met with a gunshot to no legitimate American agent could manage: the knee, it smoothes the way for a gal like me to stop the insane cartel lord, with the crazy-ass go along with the fun.
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