Machete

Caught the Grindhouse wanna-be film Machete last night.......... adapted into a film from the fake trailer as seen in the Grindhouse double bill by Robert Rodreiguz.

I was looking forward to this a lot, great cast, a typical QT move by Robert Rodreiquz to employ some "has" been a-actors and give them some new fire! Don Johnson, Seagal and De Niro (even if I think De Niro was still not that great) add in some uber cool b-movie actors, like Danny Trejo, Alba, Fahey (who I thought was great!) Cheech Marin and Michelle Rodriguez and you have a top grindhouse cast list!
Trouble is as good as some of it was, it didn't play out like the two grindhouse movies, Deathproof and Planet Terror, they are superb, this was just about good! It had it's fair share of moments, but it was too polished, too clean, it felt like a studio film just a little too much. Giving it that poor quality look the bad cuts and the awful music would have helped it so much. But I can see why the studio didn't want that look after the flop which was Grindhouse!

But it's not all bad - lots of T&A, lots of violence and some funny moments (even thought I expected more than there was!) It worked enough for me to enjoy it.

(7/10)