I like anti-Republican/Texas/McCain stuff, but Machete is heavy-handed. There is more talking in this movie than in most dramas. It got boring after about half an hour, after the rousing opening that showed what the movie should have been like.
I think because Machete is the first movie ever made based off a trailer, that Rodriguez backed himself into a corner by including so many stars in the trailer, and subsequently having to write parts for all of them. Machete has no less than five bad guys - Robert DeNiro, Don Johnson, Steven Segal, Tom Savini, and Jeff Fahey - and Fahey, Segal, and Johnson could have been condensed into one character. Johnson comes off the strongest, probably because I haven't seen him in anything since Nash Bridges, and it was great just to see him again. Here, he does something akin to Boss Godfrey in Cool Hand Luke.
If you're looking for something crammed full of over-the-top violence and sex, you won't find it here. Planet Terror is still the film to beat in the current trend of revisionist grindhouse films.
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Speaking of Tom Savini where was the demise or resolution of his character? He just vanishes.
I agree with you that there is too much talking, and a number of boring patches. So many in fact that I too dozed in and out of the last half hour which was why a second screening was required. I won't defend this film, but it is a minor passible time waster until Grindhouse (the true and complete version) finally hits blu ray in Oct. By then this film will be a distant memory.
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