Year: 2013
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Written by: Kyle Ward (screenplay), Robert Rodriguez & Marcel Rodriguez (story)
"The U.S. government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space."
- Summary written by IMDb Editors
Usually sequels are worse than the originals, right? But obviously no rules apply to Machete or Machete Kills. The weaknesses and strengths of the two movies are pretty much the same: They are both hilarious and amazingly violent. Both have easy plots and all that.
The cast of characters is even more amazing this time. Of course there are some same characters in this film as well, but some of the new ones are even weirder. Sofia Vergara with the boob guns that could be straight from Austin Powers -movie? Cuba Gooding Jr., Lady Gaga and Antonio Banderas playing the same character? Charlie Sheen - I mean Carlos Estevez - as the president of United States? All the characters are ridiculous and even greater than previously. Thank you, writers!
Machete Kills made me pay more attention to the dialogue. Of course, again it was filled with one-liners, but it was very colourful. But then again I think most of that came through the subtitles. ("Minua ei kullitella!")
Like I said previously, the plot of this movie is very simple, but it took some wild B-movie extremes. It was amazing, and I won't complain about that. All those B-movie effects make these movies what they are.
Machete Kills is just as hilarious and violent as the first one. I don't think it needs any recommending. If you liked the first one, you'll like this one too, I promise. And if you didn't like the first one, go watch your serious movies or whatever it is that you watch, don't even try to like Machete Kills.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
9 / 10
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