'Machete' Review: Over-The-Top Bloody Action At Its Best

Guns, girls, blood and one-liners. What else do you need?

Never mess with a man who has nothing to lose. Especially if he's carrying dozens of very large knives. In the new explosion-fueled Mexploitation flick Machete, Danny Trejo, Steven Seagal, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Robert De Niro hit theaters this weekend with guns blazing.

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Anyone who saw the fake trailers for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 double feature Grindhouse has been waiting a long time for this day. Expanding on that raunchy, gritty violent snippet is the full-length feature film, Machete.

The film stars the incomparable Danny Trejo, a legendary Mexican Federali whose family is murdered by a ruthless drug lord (Steven Seagal). Left alone and homeless in Texas, he is offered a job to assasinate an anti-immigration Senator (Robert De Niro).

But soon he is double-crossed and left for dead. With a sexy undercover agent (Alba) hunting him, a taco truck revolutionary (Rodriguez) helping him, Machete must find a way to hunt down the people who betrayed him.

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Thrown in a habit-wearing nun with a penchant for guns (Lindsay Lohan) and a shotgun-wielding priest (Cheech Marin), and you got yourself a wild time at the movies.

And so far, most critics agree.

Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel calls it "a Hispanic American version of a blaxploitation film of the Super Fly school, with bloody action, titillating nudity and a catch-phrase riddled script."

Frank Scheck from The Hollywood Reporter calls it "entertainingly over-the-top" and "ultraviolent," while Bill Goodykoontz of the Arizona Republic says there is a "subtle beauty" to the way Trejo wields his blades.

Sounds like the perfect summer B flick to me. See you at the movies!