Machete hails from a pretty
specific
niche of the action genre. In this
niche the goal is not just to show
men being
riddled with bullets, but carnage no one
has seen before. So
at one point Machete is beset by goons at a
hospital and, finding
himself machete-less, builds a
cat-o-nine-tails from scalpels and nurses’ belts.
He then
inserts this thing into the nearest goon and,
plunging
his hand into the screaming man’s
stomach, rips out
his long intestine. Machete then leaps from the nearest window using the man’s
organs as a rope. Read that
and, instead of thinking, That’s fucking grotesque! nod
and think, That’s an original means of killing someone?
Then
chances are you’ll like
Machete.
