JamesG
10-11-2013, 09:14 PM
Movie Reviews: Machete Kills
Machete Cortez is back, and this time he's got the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen) for a boss as he embarks on his most outrageous and dangerous adventure yet.
In the sequel to 2010's Machete, Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo are both back as director and star respectively, in a film that has plenty to offer if you're up for a B-movie spectacle. It not, you should probably heed the words of warning from most critics, and avoid Machete Kills at all costs.
Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle writes:
"Machete Kills is exploitation cinema, in the same way that a teen who pays $28 at the mall for a Sex Pistols T-shirt is a punk rocker."
Stephen Holden of the NY Times goes:
"It's a deranged, directionless splatter comedy that exhausts its bag of tricks, many of them recycled from Machete. Even the cleverest new toy, a weapon that turns bodies inside out, is so unimaginatively deployed that it’s good for a yawn."
Joe Neumaier of the NY Daily News starts his review:
"Machete Kills? Machete Bores is more like it."
Scott Bowles of USA today says that the film's excessive violence becomes repetitive:
"This is overkill, the mayhem has just become too boring."
Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post starts off:
"There are a few good jokes, but mostly the movie takes itself as over-seriously as the titular, cleaver-swinging protagonist, who never even cracks a smile."
Mark Olsen of the LA Times is also not impressed:
"Robert Rodriguez's new Machete Kills is the strongest example yet of the corner the filmmaker seems to have painted himself into, a sad funhouse of bad movies made in thrall of bad movies."
-IMDb News
Machete Cortez is back, and this time he's got the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen) for a boss as he embarks on his most outrageous and dangerous adventure yet.
In the sequel to 2010's Machete, Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo are both back as director and star respectively, in a film that has plenty to offer if you're up for a B-movie spectacle. It not, you should probably heed the words of warning from most critics, and avoid Machete Kills at all costs.
Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle writes:
"Machete Kills is exploitation cinema, in the same way that a teen who pays $28 at the mall for a Sex Pistols T-shirt is a punk rocker."
Stephen Holden of the NY Times goes:
"It's a deranged, directionless splatter comedy that exhausts its bag of tricks, many of them recycled from Machete. Even the cleverest new toy, a weapon that turns bodies inside out, is so unimaginatively deployed that it’s good for a yawn."
Joe Neumaier of the NY Daily News starts his review:
"Machete Kills? Machete Bores is more like it."
Scott Bowles of USA today says that the film's excessive violence becomes repetitive:
"This is overkill, the mayhem has just become too boring."
Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post starts off:
"There are a few good jokes, but mostly the movie takes itself as over-seriously as the titular, cleaver-swinging protagonist, who never even cracks a smile."
Mark Olsen of the LA Times is also not impressed:
"Robert Rodriguez's new Machete Kills is the strongest example yet of the corner the filmmaker seems to have painted himself into, a sad funhouse of bad movies made in thrall of bad movies."
-IMDb News