Synopsis
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
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Cast
- Danny TrejoMachete
- Michelle RodriguezLuz
- Jessica AlbaSartana Rivera
- Robert De NiroSenator John McLaughlin
- Steven SeagalRogelio Torrez
- Cheech MarinPadre Cortez
- Lindsay LohanApril Booth
- Electra AvellanNurse Mona
- Elise AvellanNurse Lisa
- Tom SaviniOsiris Amanpour
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
In the end, Machete may not be all that original, but it is fresh – fresh as a steel blade to the gut. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
A gory, pulpy wink of an action thriller, was spun out of a parody trailer Rodriguez directed for the '70s-trash homage "Grindhouse" (2007). The trailer was sublime. As a feature, Machete is more fun than it isn't, but its deadpan mockery of exploitation clichés often slips a bit too close to being the real, schlocky thing. - 75
Movieline
Forget modulation, nuance or storytelling, this is a movie that hits hard from first to last, no questions asked or logic followed. - 70
Boxoffice Magazine
How often can you see Cheech Marin nailed to a cross or Lindsay Lohan in a threesome with Trejo and the actress playing her mother? - 70
Arizona Republic
Machete is insanely violent, insanely over-the-top. It's pretty much flat-out insane. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The ensemble cast -- ranging from an Oscar winner (De Niro) and faded action star (Seagal) to a B-movie vet (Fahey) and tabloid fodder (Lindsay Lohan, not exactly playing against type as a drugged-out, hell-raising sexpot) -- pretty much offers something for everybody. - 63
Orlando Sentinel
Like those '70s movies it borrows from, there's a blast of tongue-in-cheek politics built around a "They messed with the WRONG Mexican" message. No, this may not go over in Arizona. - 60
Time Out
This is the kind of movie in which it's considered the zenith of meta-wit to have a slumming Robert De Niro (as Machete's racist politico nemesis) drive a taxi.
