A lot of hype has gone into Machete for one surreal element: This is based upon a fake trailer for a double-feature designed to evoke traditional grindhouse flicks. It doesn’t get more meta than that, and thankfully for co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, it is a largely successful film that only seems to falter in actually recreating the grindhouse feel 100 percent.
Oddly, Machete isn’t exactly the easiest film to follow, which is surprising considering its supposed low brow leanings. Danny Trejo stars as the namesake Machete, a Mexican Federale, who after a nasty betrayal from his compadres, ends up three years later in Texas as a day laborer in a rather grand tale involving Jessica Alba as Sartana, a latina ICE agent bent on upholding the law, and Michelle Rodriguez as Luz, the underground leader of the
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