the audience applauded

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

One of the most ridiculous films I have ever seen. I have not seen the prequel, but I do not think it could be any better, or it would change my opinion for this one. I trusted the cast and I was deeply disappointed. Above all, Danny Trejo in a role, that did not suit him, brought him completely out of his usual style, thus making an ass out of him. IMHO he cannot support a large range of roles. Was this crap of a film a parody of action films, a slapstick, or what?My vote 2/1O.

Danny Trejo reprises his role as the eponymous hero in writer & director Robert Rodriguez's preposterous, larger-than-life "Machete Kills," a blazing, no-holds barred, actioneer about a former cartel leader turned revolutionary who threatens to fire a missile at Washington, D.C. Predictably, Machete is sent to dispatch this unsavory character. You cannot take a movie like "Machete Kills" seriously any more than you could take a Daffy Duck cartoon seriously. However, this is the charm of this outlandish epic. The "Machete" movies are all about guts, one way or another, and our hero relies on more than his own guts to get him safely through another assignment. In the first film, he used a dying man's intestines to rappel out a window, while in the sequel, he pulls a man's guts out and slings the slimy things into the whirling rotor blades of a helicopter. The chopper blade snags the guts and hoists Machete's adversary into them, cutting him to bites. In the middle of all this mayhem, Mel Gibson pops up as the real villain. Danny Trejo plays everything straight as if he were in a serious movie and this goes a long way at the end of the day. Charlie Sheen is hilarious as Rathcock, the President of the United States. If you're a big Jessica Alba fan, you don't have to watch anything after her earlier scene where she is killed. This is just as surprising as Hitchcock's "Psycho" where Janet Leigh was offed in an earlier scene. "Machete Kills" qualifies as big dumb fun! Let's hope Rodriguez musters the nerve to pull off "Machete Kills Again . . . . In Space."

This is so much better than the original. I still remember how disappointed I was this the original after all the hype coming off of the Grindhouse mid-movie trailers, but that is a whole other story I am not going to talk about because I am probably never going to watch the first Machete movie ever again. This film on the other hand is a blast; mainly because they corrected the problem of relying on Daddy Whatshisface as the lead. Basically they made him a sidekick in his own movie, and there is nothing wrong with that because it works. Regrettably, we are not going to get a "Machete Kills Again in Space" because this film didn't do well, probably because the first one kind of su&ked. But whatever, I'm over it. The only thing that doesn't work in this film is that lady from Modern Family. She is annoying as all heck and I never want to watch her in anything ever again.

Continuing my plan to watch every Mel Gibson movie in order, I come to Machete Kills (2013)Plot In A Paragraph: The U.S. government recruits Machete (Danny Trejo) to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer (Gibson) who looks to launch a weapon into space.In nothing more than a glorified cameo (Playing a villain on screen for the first time) Gibson hams it up in full pantomime villain mode, playing essentially a Bond villain. We don't even see him until the hour mark. How you view Machete Kills will totally depend on your frame of mind when you watch it, and how you feel about B movies in general. I was in the mood for something silly, and I enjoyed it's craziness!! Like an Expendables movie, this is loaded with stunt casting that looks like they were filmed over a couple of days!! Jessica Alba, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding Jr, Lady GaGa, a grown up Alexa Vega (who only has one line throughout the film, but what a bum she has!!) and Sofia Vergara and her double D's. It amused me to see Charlie Sheen credited under his real name, Carlos Estevez (He even has an "introducing" billing lol )Machete Kills tanked at the domestic box office, only grossing $7 million dollars. Which sadly ended the franchise before we got to see 'Machette Kills Again In Space' which is a shame as I thought it looked hilariously entertaining.