Machete - 3/10
Crap! I think it should have stayed a fake trailer, it was cooler then, the story more epic.
The mistake made with this one was... well, besides it being Rodriguez rather than Tarantino, its attempt to matter. It should have been like the trailer, no holds-barred, ballsy, testosterone-filled, outlandish, far-fetched and for all or nothing. It had the right cast, but the wrong locale. It could have involved drugs, and by all means, make the man one of family-revenge, but fighting for immigration? Come on!! The lines were weak - I mean whoever the script writers were, and Rodriguez too, I say 'This is American, dammit! Speak English'
And to the rest of the sorry movie, in the words of machete himself,
"Why be a real person when you are already a myth" ... and it should have remained one