You ever accidentally catch someone in their underwear? That's awkward. Especially if you’re holding a knife.And nobody wields a knife (well, a machete) better than Danny Trejo, as the title character in Machete. He plays a Mexican Federale who is wronged, then becomes a justice-seeking vigilante, chopping off any and all of his foes' limbs in the process.
One of my favorite filmmakers, Robert Rodriguez, co-wrote and co-directed this, and made a really fun, Quentin Tarantino-style film. The key is that it doesn’t take itself seriously. Take, for example, a scene in which Mexican day-laborers are recruited to take on the bad guys. They stampede a compound, and trailing the back of the charge is a dude pushing an ice-cream cart.
See it today. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll cut off a guy’s foot and use it to make a chimichanga.
