Macheté

Les excès pleinement assumés, de violence sanglante exacerbée et de nudité totalement gratuite, donnent lieu à de nombreux gags hilarants, au gré d'un scénario touffu qui formule un commentaire social percutant, à défaut d'être subtil.

In its best moments Machete will show you things beyond the ridiculous, things you've never seen on screen in any other movie, usually while a beautiful naked woman stands in the background. It's gleefully violent, but in a way that's more than just brutality for brutality's sake. It's creative, it's sarcastic, at times it's even flat out funny, and it all hinges on Danny Trejo as Machete.

At 105 minutes, Machete is at least half an hour too long for its own good. It would've worked better at that length as one-half of Grindhouse, certainly better than Rodriguez's own Planet Terror did.

Although laughter is the appropriate response to this pulpy, lighthearted gorefest, its pro-Mexican, anti-American stance is so gleefully inflammatory that some incensed nativists may refuse to get the joke.

An aggressively overstated mashup of testosterone-fueled melodrama, comically exaggerated violence and babe-o-licious action femmes, "Machete" marks yet another attempt by multihyphenate Robert Rodriguez to simultaneously revive and burlesque the excesses of '70s exploitation pics.

For the first twenty minutes, Machete totally rocked my world. It opens up with an awesomely cheesy action scene complete with excessive, over-the-top violence, loads of nudity (including a rather novel place to hide a cell phone), and Steven Seagal. At this point, I truly thought Machete was going to be a gloriously schlocky action ride harkening back to the best days of exploitation action (aka the seventies and eighties). Sadly, the rest of the film doesn't quite live up to the badass opening.

Contrairement aux films de son ami Quentin Tarantino, ceux de Robert Rodriguez sont loin de briller par leur scénario. Par contre, si tout ce qui vous intéresse est de voir Trejo massacrer un nombre incalculable de méchants de diverses façons grotesques, vous ne devriez pas être trop déçus.

Machete, c'est beaucoup ce que The Expendables aurait dû être. De l'action over-the-top plantée dans un monde de Pulp Fiction par des personnages qui ne se prennent pas au sérieux et sont au service d'une histoire qui avance sans subtilité, avec de gros sabots qu'elle assume.

Danny Trejo plays the long-haired, craggy-faced titular Machete with a combination of swift ferocity and baleful kindliness. And the ladies love it.