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MACHETE - 7/10
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Solid entertainment, if a bit.. oh.. WANDERING, I guess. It was one of the most predictable film I've ever seen; I was saying lines before the characters said them, predicting all the double crosses, fates of characters, character's motivations, and exact arrivals of characters in scenes and so on. Either I'm just so used to Rodriguez's style by now, or I've just seen way too many fucking movies like this. That part where Sagal goes, "you look just like the women he likes" I said to my girlfriend, "Dead?" and he went, "DEAD." And she said, "YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE, HAVEN'T YOU!?!?!" Haha. The best prediction I made was "Man, Robert DeNiro's scummy politican character is probably going to evade death until the last scene in the film." And when they put the poncho/hat on him, I said, "Watch! They're going to shoot him as he's escaping the boarder or something!" Haha. It was just so predictable, but it was fun. It helped that we were the only ones in the theater. Basically, it was good, silly fun like most of Rodriguez's films. Nothing too deep, but like all of Rodriguez's films, it's extremely well-made; you gotta respect the dude, who edits, directs, writes, does the score for, etc... for cheap!
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BTW, is Michelle Rodriguez related to Robert Rodriguez in any way? I'm sure I can look that up and find out in 2 seconds but I was curious. I know he's dating Rose McGowan still, right? Anyway, I know "Rodriguez" is a fairly common last name, but hey.
Basically, an entertaining, well-made, fun little film. Didn't blow me away like some of the recent films I've seen (Scott Pilgrim) but it's about a BILLION times better than, oh, the Expendables or something.
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