Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

First some of you may be wondering why I'm rating the movie so high, well I happen to love grindhouse, splatter, and slasher films. This movie doesn't disappoint with it's ridiculous deaths, intentionally bad cgi, bad ass sexy girls, although there is almost no nudity in the film which seems like a strange choice. I got to see Lindsey Lohan's boobs in the first one I thought they would upstage their game a bit. The whole budget seems like it went to the high class actors, Mel Gibson sure as hell cannot come cheap.It's certainly more crazier than the first movie, if you're a fan of grindhouse films you owe it yourself to at least watch the movie.

OK, not really true what with the violence, objectification of women, and the explosions, but this movie is absolutely great. Ol' Bobby Rodriguez still has his touch. This is definitely one of the great movies of the 21st century. It will hold a place near the top of the list of great films of our time. Machete Kills is a modern marvel of cinematic achievement. A high water mark of film making and civilization itself. This movie has it all: action, suspense, beautiful scantly clad women, explosions, disguises, nuclear bombs, and a cast of stars. It also provides quality instruction on how to hold, swing, carry, and use a machete in extreme situations. I found myself taking notes and practicing moves while watching this movie on repeat in my living room. In fact, by the Machete School of Mexican Arts rules and regulations, I am a red belt! This movie is the best and everyone should watch it.

Sometimes you go see a movie that you KNOW is not going to win any serious awards, has no redeeming social value and doesn't take itself very seriously – at all. And it's BECAUSE of all those reasons that you go – just because the movie is going to be fun to watch. You get all this with "Machete Kills" (R, 1:47). In 2007, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez created a movie called "Grindhouse", a film which imitated the experience of going to a drive-in movie (ask your parents) to see two hyper-violent "B-movies". "Grindhouse" contained two full-length films, which looked and felt like a 1970s-era double-feature, complete with wild faux trailers in between the movies. One of those trailers was for a movie called "Machete" with Danny Trejo playing a tough-guy named after his favorite weapon and included the tag line "They f****ed" with the wrong Mexican!" Well, the trailer got such a strong reaction from the audience that Robert Rodriguez actually made the movie! That was in 2010. In 2013, Rodriguez and Trejo teamed up again for a sequel.In "Machete Kills", Trejo is saved from a vigilante sheriff by an almost-too-late phone call from the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen, billed in this film as Carlos Estevez). The President convinces Machete (pronounced ma-CHET-ay) to go back to Mexico and stop a revolutionary named Mendez who is threatening to fire a missile at Washington D.C. Machete is a really tough hombre, but he has a heart, so he takes on the mission. He captures the dangerously schizophrenic Mendez (Demián Bichir), but has to get him out of Mexico, past a wall that separates Mexico and the U.S. and to the only man who can diffuse the missile, whose trigger has been surgically attached to Mendez' heart. To accomplish all this, Machete has to deal with Mendez' wild personality swings, a murderous bevy of prostitutes led by Desdemona (Sophia Vergara) - who is wearing some very dangerous weaponry (yes, wearing) – and attempts on his life by characters played by Walton Goggins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lady Gaga and Antonio Banderas, who, in this film, all share a very unusual connection. Oh, and then there's Mel Gibson's megalomaniacal Voz, who is planning on escaping the violence of earth by taking a select few up in a space shuttle he built himself.If all this sounds dumb, all I can say is… it is! But it's also a real hoot! Machete is a serious bad-ass battling a whole lot of merciless, but colorful villains. The characters, the action, the violence, and the dialog are all delightfully over-the-top. If you watch this movie, you'll get exactly what you expect – no more and no less. And you'll even get a trailer for the next Machete movie – "Machete Kills Again… in Space!" I'm not even kidding. Until THAT sequel re-redefines "over-the-top", I'll revel in the memory of "Machete Kills" and recommend it with the only grade that I can give a great B-movie: a "B+".

"Machete don't tweet" is just one of the hilarious lines uttered by Danny Trejo's iconic character, Machete Cortez, in this new fun-as-hell sequel from Robert Rodriguez. If you pay attention, you might notice that Rodriguez has actually made a 'Star Wars' film with Machete in it this time around, complete with machete lightsabers, versions of carbonite and landspeeders, and characters similar to those in the 'Star Wars' universe. With an all-star cast and even more blood, guts and kills than the first one, this over-the-top sequel is highly entertaining.In this epic adventure, the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen, billed as "Carlos Estevez") calls up Machete to kill a Mexican drug lord named Mendez (Demian Bichir). Mendez suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder, and switches back and forth from being an evil drug kingpin, to a heroic revolutionary, to a secret agent. You never know what you'll get with him, but Bichir plays the character with gusto and hilarity. Mendez has implanted a device that remotely connects him to a nuclear warhead. If his heart stops, the missile will launch and hit Washington, DC. Machete accepts this mission when the President grants him U.S. citizenship and assigns him a handler in the form of a beauty pageant queen (Amber Heard) who has every weapon imaginable hiding beneath her gowns.As soon as Machete starts the mission, bad guys come out of the woodwork to kill him, including a top assassin known as the Chameleon, who changes disguises frequently and can look like Walton Goggins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Antonio Banderas or… Lady Gaga. After some guts are spilled and a few heads chopped off, Machete figures out that a multi-billionaire weapons mogul named Voz (Mel Gibson) is behind the entire scheme, and has big plans to destroy Earth and set up a new life in space.Does any of this make sense? No, but it sure is a hell of a lot of fun to watch. From Sofia Vergara's man-hating dominatrix who uses her boobs as weapons, to Machete swinging an enemy's intestines into the blades of a helicopter, you're in for something special with this sequel. Trejo has an impressive presence and owns the screen every time he's on camera, even if his monotone dialogue never has any emotion. The supporting cast around him rounds out this zany but brilliant action adventure. Yes, Michelle Rodriguez and her one eye show up again, and spill a lot of blood.This schlocky grindhouse material is what Rodriquez is great at. I can't wait to see the next chapter, teased in this one with a trailer called 'Machete Kills Again… In Space'.