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The picture is assembled with energy and a smidgen of style, but it's tiresome and slight. Rodriguez, who also edits, shoots and scores his movies, tries to do too much with too little here. The lighting, editing and special effects are a couple of notches up from a SyFy shark movie. Rodriguez is canny about acknowledging the picture is fast-and-cheap aesthetic,the weak green-screen effects and CGI blood-spurts are presented as a shared joke between you and the movie.after a certain point viewers who paid twelve to fifteen bucks might wish that all the winking and shrugging were accompanied by more cleverness, and a sense of when to quit. At 107 minutes,Machete Kills is way too much of a pretty good thing. At least the picture has the courage of its silly convictions, pushing the original's spoofy humor to Machete gets hanged, beaten, shot, blown up, and eaten alive by wolverine okay, I made up the wolverine thing, but you would have believed it, right and yet he still has the energy to do the boom-chicka-wow-wow with a busty secret agent posing as Miss San Antonio, banter with the one-eyed badass, kill a dozen tough guys with whatever weapons are handy, and ride a missile into orbit, in what you might call a Reverse Kong. The best thing about this series is how it treats Machete's adventures as any, as if he were the 21st century Mexican answer to John Henry or Paul Bunyan. Rodriguez has a political streak that would be intriguing if it were backed up by more care and craft. A rudely funny subplot finds day laborers being mysteriously the punchline is that, like most Yankees, Gibson's bad guy can not anything done without Mexicans. Machete is a Mexican, a man of the people. He distrusts Yankee law enforcement, federales, drug cartel members, American soldiers, the White House, and anyone else who tries to obstruct, reform or use him. He is constantly escaping powerful enemies by going figuratively or literally underground. Changing tone and genre more often than costumes, mixing arbitrary plotting with slapdash action with incohesive editing, the film depends on its abundant tongue-in-cheek humor to help to round out any self-important edges.But it is nowhere near enough.The movie is still witheringly adolescent in its embrace of campy outrageousness. This is moviemaking at its most anarchic. Danny Trejo has a real life story that is at least as interesting as the many hard-bitten heroes and villains he's played on screens big and small since the mid 80s. After spending much of his early life in and out of prison, he found a renewed focus in the film industry, with his distinctive, craggy visage easily landing him a variety of memorable character roles over the years. In 1993 he appeared in writer-director Robert Rodriguez Desperado, and has gone on to team with the famed indy filmmaker eight more times over the past twenty years. watch machete kills online
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