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Machete [Blu-ray] [2011] [Region Free]

Danny Trejo , Michelle Rodriguez , Robert Rodriguez    Suitable for 18 years and over   Blu-ray
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba
  • Directors: Robert Rodriguez
  • Format: Subtitled
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Catalan, Danish, English, Finnish, French, Hindi, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  • Dubbed: French, Spanish, Catalan
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Audio Description: English
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Mar 2011
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0049EO13A
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,805 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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As a tribute to both the hyperbolic excesses of 1970s drive-in cinema and the fearsome screen persona of veteran character actor Danny Trejo, producer-writer-codirector Robert Rodriguez's Machete is, in grindhouse parlance, one mean mother. A full-length version of Rodriguez's faux "Mexsploitation" trailer in Grindhouse, Machete sketches, in the boldest strokes possible, the adventures of its titular hero (Trejo), a former federal agent turned day laborer after losing his wife and child to a katana-wielding drug lord (Steven Seagal, of all people). Recruited by shady businessman Jeff Fahey (Lost) to assassinate a rabble-rousing senator (Robert De Niro) with a particular hate vibe for immigrants, Machete soon finds himself the target of government agents, border vigilantes (led by Don Johnson!), and about half the state of Texas. Unfortunately, none seem to realise the film's central thesis: Machete's business is killing, and business is booming.

Viewers expecting subtlety or even story coherence in Machete should probably check out another movie; the script by Rodriguez and cousin Alvaro leaves no genre cliché or absurd scenario untouched, resulting in less of a plot than a collection of over-the-top set pieces, dialogue, and casting stunts (Johnson, Lindsay Lohan as Fahey's libertine daughter, and Rodriguez regulars Cheech Marin, Daryl Sabara, Tom Savini, Michael Parks, and an uncredited Rose McGowan). Most of the cast seems in on the joke, most notably a gleefully over-the-top De Niro and Michelle Rodriguez as a taco truck operator/revolutionary leader who borrows her look from the infamous Thriller: A Cruel Picture (Jessica Alba is also on board as a sympathetic fed who becomes Machete's love interest). Though it's occasionally overlong and unnecessarily convoluted, the film's value rests on how well it allows star Danny Trejo to exude his steely, implacable Danny Trejo-ness; on those merits alone, Machete is a blockbuster. --Paul Gaita


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Product Description

Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven SeagalDirector: Robert Rodriguez


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Machete - The Boss! 14 Dec 2011
By Victor HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
This is a great action flick from the master of the modern shoot-`em-up, Robert Rodriguez. Starring Danny Trejo as Machete, the greatest of Mexican Federales who loses everything to gangster Steven Segal. Becoming a drifter, he gets tangled up in a byzantine plot surrounding the transportation of immigrants across the Mexican/American border.

Framed for an attempt on a Senator's life, and on the run from seemingly everybody, an entertaining tale of bloody mayhem and revolution is woven as Machete seeks to right wrongs and clear his name.

Trejo is perfect as the hard as nails Machete, with monosyllabic dialogue and mean, moody glares. It's a magnetic performance. Jeff Fahey has fun as the somewhat seedy Machiavellian villain, Segal carries off his eviler-than-though character with aplomb and De Niro puts in a surprisingly good performance as the corrupt Senator. There is an interesting cameo from Don Johnson as the head of the local militia. Cheech Marin makes a welcome appearance as Machete's priestly brother, in scenes reminiscent of the scenes between Tuco and his brother Ramirez in the good, the bad and the ugly. Also worthy of note are Jessica Alba as the world's sexiest immigration official, and Lindsey Lohan as Fahey's dissolute daughter. Both manage great performances of quite some depth whilst simultaneously lighting up the screen as some much needed eye candy.

With Rodriguez's trademark gory violence and insane weaponry, this is not a film for the fainthearted. It is however a film that delivers plot, action, beautiful women, action, gore, action, one liners, action, social comment and a little bit of action. It's great stuff, I loved it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyment : 5 stars; Story 1.5 stars 7 Jun 2012
By Tim Kidner TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
This enjoyably over-the-top action romp from cult ace director Robert Rodriguez storms its way rather like a really great lad's night out.

What's there not to enjoy? Robert De Niro playing the sort of character he plays best and should try and play far more of, instead of those weak comedies he seems to get talked into doing plus an often nude Lindsey Lohan. Steven Seagal puts on a silly accent and looks a bit a ridiculous; puffed-up, overweight.

Gun-toting bloody violence, including 'nun' Lohan slo-mo spraying bullets interjects a rather ridiculous plot that is best ignored. You don't need to think during this movie - why spoil it with having a story to get in the way? The sunburnt ochre colours of the Mexican border is the focus of this bandit/road movie/sleaze'n'greed extravaganza.

Grizzled Mexican ex-cop Danny Trejo IS Machete, as is his deadly choice of weapon. And, you won't quite believe where a lovely naked lady removes her mobile phone from, to notify that Machete has arrived...De Niro is a dodgy senator who now mercenary Machete is paid to eliminate.

Jessica Alba is top-billed but she's rather weak, or at least her character is, at least in comparison to some of the other, more interesting ones, here. However, my money is on the deliciously lithe, brunette, moody Michelle Rodriguez, who, towards the end, adorns little more than rubber bikini and the biggest mother-of-a-gun you've ever seen. She's also one of the few here who actually acts, too. As Luz, she organises employment across the border for the locals, with a road-side cafe as a front. Alba is a CIA agent who spies on Luz. She's not related to the director, if that's what you're thinking.

Yes, this is testosterone-injected brainless mayhem and isn't the most PC movie ever made, probably one of the least subtle in its violence but just ploughs on at the speed of a bullet-train so entertainingly, that it's a must for when us adult males need to relax and switch off.

Good film? Not if you're a film critic, but as a punter, bloody ace....
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Missed opportunity 12 Feb 2012
Format:DVD
The Machete trailer was probably better than either both the entire full movies of "Death proof" and "Planet Terror" when it featured at the start of the Grindhouse double bill, fans were salivating at the prospect of seeing Danny Trejo go ape with a machine gun toting bike and Machete knife! in a down and dirty sleezefest...unfortunately what we got was 90 mins of high camp,cartoon strip histrionics with a terrible story! Robert Rodriguez is a superb director but this movie is just one big mess from start to finish, in fact it's the polar opposite of what a grindhouse film actually is! Too polished,too cartoony is what this film is and i can honestly say i've never felt more let down by a movie since i paid money to see "The Phantom Menace" all those yrs ago at my local multiplex.

Everyone in this movie ( apart from Trejo) is clearly disinterested in the material, Robert DeNiro is completely out of his depth in this type of movie and coasts along in an uninspired performance and even less memorable a role than many of the dire parts he's done lately. Seagal is as wooden as ever and is useless as the villain of the piece and only the ever reliable Jeff Fahey (Lost) comes out with any credit.

If anyone has seen the trailer for Trejo's new movie "Bad Ass" then i advise you to do so as that film looks to be what this film never was.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars your
so much fun really funny,

i think machete is supposed to be a kind of spin off, of the knife guy from - desperado
Published 18 days ago by Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars The most fun you can have with a huge blade!
After watching the Grindhouse double bill, I found that one of the spoof movies that had been trailered in that feature, had in fact later been made into a film itself. Read more
Published 1 month ago by R G Palmer
3.0 out of 5 stars Blunted by it's own smarts
I had great expectations for Machete, the full review is at Knifed in Venice but the long and the short of it is that it's well made but stoops to almost dumb down and that's not... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dave
1.0 out of 5 stars Embarrassing. A disgrace to Hollywood and the names in the film.
I don't know how Robert Rodriguez gets funding his films are so gratuitous and lamentably bad. I watched this film having found the grindhouse trailer amusing. I hated it! Read more
Published 8 months ago by theseller
5.0 out of 5 stars machette
Bought Machette for sight of Jessica Alba. Should have been more of her. However found total film to be enjoyable. Revenge genra favorite.
Published 8 months ago by terrus
5.0 out of 5 stars Great modern action flick!
I love Robert Rodriguez's films. If you like From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror, or Desperado, then you will love this film! Read more
Published 9 months ago by M. Emilia Nogueras Corral
2.0 out of 5 stars MOVIE GETS WORSE AT THE END
i did enjoyed movie like desperado, from dusk till dawm and also planet terror. but this film was bit dispointed acting of steven seagal the villian role was disgrace its was bad... Read more
Published 9 months ago by shabz
1.0 out of 5 stars don't waste ur money
in short this as to be the worst film i have ever bought.give ur money to charity instead.the reviews always sound better than thay are.
Published 11 months ago by Pen Name
5.0 out of 5 stars "..BEST FILM OF 2010.."
This is one awesome movie!!! Robert Rodriguez does it again and makes the Grindhouse movie to top them all!! Read more
Published 13 months ago by S. Drury
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy, Exploitative and Proud of it
Robert Rodriguez really outdoes himself in this made-to-order exploitation flick. The awesome Danny Trejo plays an ex-Federale who gets messed with one time too many times, and... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Joel Eagelston
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