Machete is the cinematic equivalent of Taco Bell - cheap, junky and best consumed in low doses. That’s why it was great as a faux trailer for 2007s Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez trailer-trash epic
Grindhouse, and why it falters as a full length feature flick here.
Machete is an ode to bad cinema, a movie that wants to be so bad it’s good. But a movie that succeeds at being a bad movie is ultimately still just that – bad.
