- 4 SEP 2010 - (Wee hours of the morning)
Ok so, this journal is getting kind of predictable. Yeah, the recurring themes are beneficial to the overall quality of the journal, but it's time for a curve-ball. So zip it up perverts... it's time for a movie review. ]]
**** p.s. I did the best I could to avoid spoilers, there shouldn't be anything in the review that you wouldn't know from the trailer. ****
Movie of The Day:
Machete by
Robert Rodriguez
Starring:
Danny Trujo
Steven Seagal
Jessica Alba
Jeff Fahey
Robert Deniro
Michelle Rodriguez
Cheech Marin
Don Johnson
Lindsay Lohan
OK, well... I'm not even sure to start with this movie. It all started with the fictional trailer to Grindhouse (2007), the into to
Planet Terror. I mean, how can it be bad? Just look at that cast? And the director? One of the best of our time. Danny Trujo plays Machete, an ex-federale who is hired by a mysterious political type (Jeff Fahey) to assassinate the senator of Texas (Robert Deniro). He accepts the job and upon attempting to completing the task, it's discovered that he has been set-up. Machete's tale of revenge for the loss of his family and friends starts with his namesake, the machete. Machete wields the weapon of his name throughout the entire movie, using it quite liberally, much to the pleasure of the audience the movie will attract.
This movie does one integral thing right, it stays true to it's roots. The trailer = the movie. If you went into this movie wanting and/or expecting it to be just like the trailer, then you will be pleased. Rodriguez and crew do a great job preserving the cheesy action-oriented nature of the idea, and minus the choppy, cheap, error ridden Grindhouse film aging techniques; the film is verbatim from the trailer. All the scenes from the trailer are represented, and they do a GREAT job of filling in the gaps. Rodriguez did a wonderful job on this film, and I recommend seeing it if you're remotely interested in any of his previous works, or if you laughed at the trailer. ****, I would even recommend seeing it if you've laughed at Steven Seagal in the last 10 years.
Bottom Line, this movie will have you rolling on the floor laughing, and sitting on the edge of your seat most of the time. You couldn't ask someone to make a movie out of a two minute trailer any better than this.
Crash's Recommendation - See It!!!! - 8.5/10
Not a classic by any means, but a cult classic (and possibly a series) has just been born.