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60 out of 100

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6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 198 Ratings

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  • Starring: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro
  • Summary: Left for dead after clashing with notorious Mexican drug kingpin Torrez, Machete has escaped to Texas, looking to disappear and forget his tragic past. But what he finds is a web of corruption and deceit that leaves a bullet in Senator McLaughlin and Machete a wanted man. (20th Century Fox)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 29
  3. Negative: 2 out of 29
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    88
    The movie's an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It's also Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    60
    This is the kind of movie in which it's considered the zenith of meta-wit to have a slumming Robert De Niro (as Machete's racist politico nemesis) drive a taxi.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    30
    Rodriguez retreats into gruesome violence and flaccid comedy, grasping feebly for topical relevance by referencing the current immigration fracas.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 64
  3. Negative: 16 out of 64
  1. tedfay
    10
    prettty beastly see it its pretty sweet. it was beaastly dont miss it it is the crap. see it today for only 4.99.987.7955555558.6887.6788768.3454566556… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. subletheart
    5
    Moments of greatness followed by minutes of boredom. -- For some reason, Rodriguez decided that this movie needed tons of exposition to explain a guy who kills people with a Machete. Even Quentin, would admit that this movie talks too damn much. The random moments of awesome low ball taste are spread apart by slow dialog from actors who aren't even phoning it in. The wind up between pitches kills what could have been a highlight of the summer. The action is a bloody version of the A-Team television show and not up to the standards of El Mariachi or Desperado.… Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  3. Kermit79
    0
    This is a great example of: Great Director but Terrible Film. Machete is an awful experience, I intent forget the scene in that Danny Trejo kiss Lindsay Lohan but is horrible, awful, terrible. Machete is a stupid and terrible film.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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