After a violent shakedown from a notorious drug lord nearly kills him, Machete, a renegade Mexican Federale and tough-as-nails vigilante for justice, roams the streets of Texas, working as a day laborer. When Machete is hired by a crooked US Senator to execute a covert hit, Machete is double-crossed and forced to run from the cops and an endless stream of assassins. But what they don't know is that Machete is looking for them so he can settle the score.

Awesome in its absurdity. Machete may be the first movie ever made because of a fake trailer from another movie. Machete came about from the fake trailers that were used as an intermission between Robert Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s separate films for Grindhouse. The trailers were made to be funny, ridiculous, absurd and done in that grindhouse film fashion of the 1970’s where everything was over the top and B movie quality. And that is exactly what Machete is funny, ridiculous, absurd and over the top in a B movie fashion that is highly entertaining and extremely enjoyable to watch.

For a film that didn’t really need to have much of a story or a plot for that matter they actually do make an effort to have both. Sure the plot is like the rest of the film as its absurd and fun about Mexican immigration and border control mixed in with plenty of violence, a revenge story and lots of shootouts. These elements of the story seem very much Rodriguez as he is from Texas himself and got his start in movies by making direct to video films for Mexicans. So the film has its traditional tale of revenge and vengeance mixed in with a much more complex tale of immigration and gives a lot of depth and humor to the film all at the same time.

But the star of the film is the action and the violence as they try and see how far they can go with both elements. From shootouts, to sword versus machete fights the film peppers the story with nonstop entertaining action. And not to lose that grindhouse feel Machete also adds nudity and sex to the mix as well a lot of the times accompanied by the old porno tracks from the 1970’s. All the elements just come together so well in the film though and the film is just sheer fun.

Machete has a very surprising cast from Steven Segal as the bad guy to humorous roles by Lindsay Lohan as a drunken daughter of a another villain. Danny Trejo also is actually a pretty good actor that gets type cast a lot as the “Bad Ass” Mexican but in this movie it as actually a really good fit. Most of the female roles were very humorous as well from Jessica Alba, too Michelle Rodriguez to Lohan as a coked out trouble maker. Machete is a movie worth the ticket price as long as you realize that you are getting a movie that is be absurd and B moviesh on purpose.

Grade: B+