Machete

After nearly being killed during a violent fight with a powerful drug lord, a blade-wielding, tough-as-nails ex-Federale known as Machete (Danny Trejo) roams Texas streets as a vigilante, assassin and sometime day-laborer.  Hired by the President of the United States for a secret mission to take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet, he is double-crossed and forced to go on the run. Machete may be down, but not out, and soon he’s carving a blazing path of blood, bullets and broken hearts in his quest to settle the score. Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, From Dusk Till Dawn) and co-director Ethan Maniquis unleash an outrageously violent, wildly over-the-top homage to exploitation drive-in flicks of the ‘70s in this tongue-in-cheek, knife –in-guts action blast with a stellar supporting cast including Robert DeNiro, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Jeff Fahey and Steven Seagal. (Dir. by Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis, 2010, 105 mins., Rated R)