"Machete Kills" takes on the madman taking over the world sub genre favored by middle-era James Bond films, mixes that with an excess of "Star Wars" jokes, and concocts a bland caricature.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 8, 2020

Machete Kills is a film in which style sardonically routs substance, a cloying gag built around the iconic quality of Trejo's matchlessly craggy face, which resembles a plate of sundried corned beef.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 15, 2013

This ignores the first rule of proper B-movie exploitation cinema - that anything over 89 minutes is just excess baggage, of which Machete Kills has plenty. Still, at least it's authentic in one respect - the trailer is better than the film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2013

A self-aware exploitation picture that winks as it picks your pocket.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2013

When a celebrity chef like Rodriguez is just going through the motions, we can smell that the grindhouse fad is way past its expiration date. It's time to put a fork in it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 11, 2013

"Machete Kills" is barely a movie. It's an inside joke wrapped in a fanboy fantasy, pieced together through a haze of ironic detachment.

| Original Score: D- | Oct 11, 2013

Machete kills, sure. Unfortunately, he overkills.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 11, 2013

Just don't expect a classic of American independent cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2013

Machete Kills dulls more than anything.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2013

Until your eyes glaze over after about a half-hour, "Machete Kills" might put a twisted smirk of guilty amusement on your face.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Uses a dull blade to hack away at the same targets that the first film so deftly eviscerated, namely B-movies.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 10, 2013

"Machete Kills" is exploitation cinema, in the same way that a teen who pays $28 at the mall for a Sex Pistols T-shirt is a punk rocker.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2013

Machete Kills is what happens when you stomp - or slash - a good idea to death.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 10, 2013

It's saved by an enjoyably loopy script, several surprisingly strong performances, and the inventive direction of Robert Rodriguez, whose low-budget creativity is a performance in itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2013

The odd vivid shot reminds you of Rodriguez's dynamic visual imagination, but also what it's wasted on here: a project as indifferent as some of the trash that inspired it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Where the first film reflected its simple roots by not reaching for too much, here it too often feels like Rodriguez is trying too hard to impress.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Oct 10, 2013

It's the kind of movie you pause to watch when it's on 온라인카지노추천, but after half an hour, you'll click over to something else.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2013

A conceptual throwback, to days when Roger Corman and other low-budget mavericks gleefully deemed any crazy idea worth tossing into a movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2013

"Machete Kills"? "Machete Bores" is more like it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2013

"Machete Kills" is just plain bad in a way that is in no way good.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 10, 2013