"Machete" Review: A Cutting Throwback to the '70s

"Machete" is about as Campy a film as it gets.

Spawning from a bogus trailer included in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez 'jocular double feature "Grind House" from a few years ago, this Completely irreverent action-adventure Spoof Slightly elevated is a throwback to the shabby from '70s action flicks.

Devoid of real character Development for months or subtext, the film is a complete parody booby-Trapped with over-the-top Violence, blood and gore - racist and sexist to the extreme. It is so exploitative, one can not help throw up Their hands, sit back and roll with the punches.

Danny Trejo is Machete, a knife-wielding ex-Federale whose wife and daughter are brutally Slayed by at his old nemesis and crime boss (Steven Seagal) within the first minute of the film.

Fast forward and Trejo is working as a lowly-paid day laborer without papers. He's picked up by a greedy businessman (Jeff Fahey), working together on the other side of the law with Robert Deniro, a corrupt Politician, out Thurs seek re-election is a wacky anti-immigration policy. Too woo voters, Deniro rides together with Fahey & His henchmen, Rounding up immigrants crossing the border and shoots Them on site, then asks if the crew at his killing has Been caught on tape, as it will help rally votes.

They enlist the Machete to Be Staged a patsy in Assassination Attempt, but their find They are brass with the wrong man. In a Vendetta Thurs avenge the murder of at his wife and daughter Machete goes all out Thurs track down the guy Ken set him up, and the senator and the crime boss Ken Took down at his family.

Trejo's Scarred, gnarled face certainly breathes life into at his tough guy character, vain, they really has nothing more than just shootouts, and Corny lines to work with Throughout. Robert Deniro provides at So Many Laughs at his wimpy senator's expense, and, it is a treat to see him so over-the-top.

Jessica Alba helps forge her tough girl image, playing an altruistic border patrol cop Ken seeks justice and Becomes Machete's main squeeze along the way.

Unfortunately, those who currently love a good comeback will be disappointed with Lindsay Lohan's performance. She plays Fahey's sexpot daughter, Ken spends much of her return to the big screen drugged up and in the buff. It'll be hard for those who currently remember this actress as the cute, freckle-Faced girl in "The Parent Trap" to ever look at her In That Way again. However, on the flip side, it Zapraszamy do wonders for her burgeoning modeling career. She has a body slams That!

Overall this will not have to go down as a B-movie, but their Taken in context, Machete still manages Thurs serve up some intense action, along with some funny moments That will keep Many smiling irreverently Throughout - and you will get to see for yourself what Lilo all the hype is all about.