Machete kills
| Movie | |
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| German title | Machete kills |
| Original title | Machete kills |
| Country of production |
United States , Russia |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 (uncut version) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Rodriguez |
| script | Kyle Ward |
| production | Sergei Bespalov, Aaron Kaufman, Iliana Nikolic, Alexander Rodnyansky, Robert Rodriguez, Rick Schwartz |
| music | Robert Rodriguez, Carl Thiel |
| camera | Robert Rodriguez |
| cut | Rebecca Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
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Machete Kills is an exploitation film by Robert Rodriguez with Danny Trejo from the year 2013 and is the sequel to Machete in 2010 by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis is.
action
The actual plot is preceded by a supposed trailer for the continuation of the film under the name Machete Kills Again ... In Space! with the actors Danny Trejo , Michelle Rodríguez , Alexa Vega , Lady Gaga , Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio .
Federal agent Sartana Rivera and her partner Machete Cortez attempt to arrest arms dealers who have been supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels . However, the arms dealers are killed by gangsters, who in turn are killed by another group. Their masked leader murdered Machetes Sartana to the horror. Machete is arrested by the corrupt Sheriff Doakes and his deputy Clebourne. Doakes accuses Machete of murdering Sartana and tries to hang Machete when President of the United States calls Rathcock and orders Machete to be released. Machete is brought to the White House . The President promises him US citizenship if he kills Marcos Mendez, a Mexican psychopath who threatens to destroy Washington, DC with a nuclear missile.
Machete accepts the assignment and travels to San Antonio , where he meets his leader Blanca Vasquez, who won the Miss San Antonio beauty pageant . She armed and seduced machete before sending him to Acapulco , Mexico, where he was supposed to meet Cereza, a young woman who could lead him to Mendez. Machete finds her in the brothel of her mother Desdemona, who tries to kill Machete together with other ladies of the house before he can escape with Cereza. Cereza brings him to Zaror, a Mendez mercenary who, on Mendez's orders, kills Cereza before bringing Machete to his headquarters. There Machete learns from Mendez, who has a split personality, that he has connected the trigger of the nuclear missile to his heart.
Machete kills Zaror and his men and arrests Mendez, whom he wants to take to the United States to find the man who built the nuclear missile and can defuse it. However, Mendez activates a mechanism whereby the nuclear missile will launch in twenty-four hours. Machete informs the US president of the situation, but the US president refuses to help while Machete is on Mexican soil. While Machete tries to cross the border between Mexico and the United States with Mendez, he learns that Mendez is an ex-secret agent who has tried to expose the machinations of his corrupt superiors. He was betrayed and forced to watch his family being tortured. This trauma drove him insane, and because of his split personality, he embarked on the plans of the builder of the nuclear missile.
Shortly thereafter, a bounty is placed on the capture of the two. Machete and Mendez are independently pursued by Desdemona and her prostitute murderers who want to take revenge for the murder of Cereza, Sheriff Doakes and his deputy Clebourne, who want to collect the bounty, and the hit man El Camaleón. In his pursuit, El Camaleón changes his appearance several times and kills anyone who has seen him. Machete and Mendez manage to escape to the United States, where they get into a confrontation with Sheriff Doakes and his deputy sheriff, as well as the resurrected Zaror and Mendez's mercenaries. Sheriff Doakes and his deputy Clebourne are killed and Mendez is beheaded by Zaror. Machete is hit by numerous shots from the mercenaries.
Machete comes to consciousness in a healing tank and learns that he is in the power of Luther Voz. Voz is a criminal businessman, inventor, and Star Wars fan. Voz shows Machete the beating heart of Mendez, which is kept in a glass container, and shows him several weapons that he has constructed himself. Voz says he has the ability to foresee the future and informs Machete of his plan to manipulate extremists in several locations around the world, including North Korea , to detonate nuclear weapons around the world. Voz wants to leave the earth with his faithful in a spaceship to build a new society in space. He also reveals that Zaror is one of many genetically engineered super soldier clones he created as a helper. Now he wants to use Machete's DNA to create clones with even more power. When Machete refuses, he is pursued by Voz 'men, whom he can kill with Voz' own weapons.
Machete escapes with the help of the underground fighter Luz, who is blind in her right eye and who has heard about the bounty on Machete. She tells him that only Machete's old enemy Osiris Amanpour can defuse the device in Mendez's heart that Machete left with Voz when he escaped. Machete contacts his leader Blanca Vasquez, who sends him to a meeting point and informs the US president of Voz's plans.
Arrived at the agreed meeting point, Machete is ambushed by Blanca Vasquez and her men, as she works with Voz, who helped her to the title Miss Texas . There is an argument with her and her men as well as Luz and her partners who have accompanied Machete to the meeting point. When Blanca Vasquez finally flees into the desert with her vehicle, Machete takes up the chase, jumps on the car, but has to jump off when he is hit by gunfire.
Machete comes to consciousness on a country road and is taken away by El Camaleón, who tries again to kill him. Machete manages to escape through an escape tunnel that he discovers when he has to dig his own grave. El Camaleón is killed by a group of racist rednecks because he is mistaken for a Mexican immigrant.
Machete unites with Luz and her group, the Network , where Osiris Amanpour also works as a bomb defuser. You sneak into a fundraiser event hosted by Voz. There is an exchange of fire there. Machete succeeds in finding the heart of Mendez with Osiris, but Voz kills Osiris and shoots at the heart, reducing the time to the launch of the nuclear missile to five minutes. Machete realizes that Voz was the one who killed Sartana. He attacks Voz and burns him so badly that Voz later hides his disfigured face behind a silver mask. Meanwhile, Blanca Vasquez shoots Luz in her left eye so that she goes completely blind. Nevertheless, Luz succeeds in locating Blanca Vasquez and killing him. After that, Luz is captured by Voz, frozen and brought into the spaceship.
Machete jumps on the launching nuclear missile and defuses it in flight. Meanwhile, Voz goes on board his spaceship and flees with the clones of Zaror, his helpers and Luz. Machete is rescued by US President Rathcock, who declares that Machete's warning has succeeded in overpowering the extremists recruited by Voz. He asks Machete to follow Voz into space and kill him. Machete agrees and boards a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.0 rocket . He flies to the Voz space station, where he receives a laser machete for his new assignment.
The film closes with a preview of the supposed sequel Machete Kills Again… In Space! .
background
On June 10, 2012, Rodriguez mentioned that the filming of Machete Kills had started. Filming lasted only 29 days, and it finally ended on July 28, 2012.
The film was produced by Rodriguez, as well as Aaron Kaufman and Iliana Nicolic, by QuickDraw Productions , Sergei Bespalov of Aldamisa Films , Alexander Rodnyansky of AR Films and Rick Schwartz of Overnight Productions .
Lindsay Lohan , who played the role of April Booth in the previous movie, can no longer be seen in this film. Rodriguez said that he was very fond of Lohans' role, "though it wouldn't fit into the story."
The film lists Charlie Sheen under his maiden name Carlos Estévez . In the trailer , this name will be presented with the term "and introducing ...", introduced by the otherwise occurring for the first time an actor.
The film was originally scheduled to start on September 13, 2013, but was postponed to October 11 to avoid competition with Insidious: Chapter 2 . In Germany, the film was released on December 19, 2013.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book by Bjorn Schalla and Hannes Maurer and the dialogue director Bjorn Schalla by the synchronous company Scala Media GmbH in Berlin .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Machete Cortez | Danny Trejo | Thomas Rauscher |
| Billy | Billy Blair | Sven Fechner |
| Cereza | Vanessa Hudgens | Marieke Oeffinger |
| Chepo | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Detlef Bierstedt |
| El Camaleón 1 | Walter Goggins | Michael Deffert |
| El Camaleón 2 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Dietmar miracle |
| El Camaleón 4 | Antonio Banderas | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Killjoy | Alexa Vega | Kaya Marie Möller |
| La Camaleón 3 | Lady Gaga | Anja Stadlober |
| Luther Voz | Mel Gibson | Elmar Wepper |
| Luz | Michelle Rodríguez | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Mendez | Demián Bichir | Robert Missler |
| Miss San Antonio | Amber Heard | Anne Helm |
| Osiris Amanpour | Tom Savini | Jan Spitzer |
| Sartana Rivera | Jessica Alba | Stephanie waiter |
| Sheriff Doakes | William Sadler | Rainer Doering |
| President of the United States | Charlie Sheen | Matthias Klie |
Reviews
“[...] The US audience punished Rodriguez's sequel badly. The director proves that he has learned from the far too serious original. This time it is far more self-deprecating and abstruse, moreover he lets it crash constantly and donates a memorable comeback to Mel Gibson. The fun that those involved obviously had during the shoot carries over to the audience. "
“[…] Robert Rodriguez's dirty cinema homage 'Machete Kills' is just as brutal, wacky and politically incorrect as its predecessor, but hardly anything new is added to it. For all fans of 'Machete' or the Rodriguez / Tarantino double feature 'Grindhouse' (in which Machete first appeared in a fake trailer), the sequel again offers more than 100 fast-paced minutes full of the most tasteless gags, most unsavory splatter effects and most absurd story twists. But if you didn't really warm up with Danny Trejo's first appearance as a monosyllabic killer machine, you can save yourself the sequel from the outset with a clear conscience. "
"[...] Critic's conclusion: 'Machete Kills' is meaningless, infantile and tasteless and that's exactly why it is the completely unbridled exploitation fun that it is."
“A failed, misshapen B-movie as an uninspired caricature from the 1970s exploitation films. The listless staging and the lame plot are combined with a star ensemble, which, with a few exceptions, seems out of place. "
Possible continuation
At Comic Con 2011, director Robert Rodriguez announced that he would be making a trilogy that would include Machete and Machete Kills, a film entitled Machete Kills Again… In Space! should include. This trilogy is also mentioned shortly before the credits of the first film, but without the addition "In Space!"
Originally, filming for the third part was supposed to start in 2015. In 2017, Danny Trejo stated in an interview that both director Robert Rodriguez and Mel Gibson were ready for the project. When asked about the sequel, Trejo announced a self-produced sequel without Rodriguez's participation in 2019.
Trivia
- Charlie Sheen appears in the credits for the first time in his film career with his real name Carlos Estévez.
- Sartana , the role name of Jessica Alba, is a figure known from many spaghetti westerns .
- The performer of Zaror is also called Marko Zaror in real life.
- Alexa Vega (KillJoy) doesn't wear bikini panties like on advertising posters, but a thong throughout the film . This is indicated several times by side views, until the final scene in Vegas is resolved.
- As in the Rodriguez films From Dusk Till Dawn and Desperado , the "penis revolver" is used.
Web links
- Machete Kills at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cutlass Kills atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Machete Kills . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2013 (PDF; test number: 142 026 K).
- ↑ Filming of the film began
- ↑ End of shooting
- ↑ List of producers of the film
- ↑ Rodriguez's comment on Lohan's role
- ^ "Adios Charlie Sheen, hello Carlos Estevez" , cnn.com, September 17, 2013, accessed December 23, 2013
- ↑ Postponement of the publication date due to possible competition
- ↑ Machete Kills. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on May 23, 2014 .
- ↑ TV feature film
- ^ Critique by Christoph Petersen on Filmstarts.de
- ^ Critique by Gregor Torinus on Spielfilm.de
- ↑ Film Service
- ↑ Arthur A: Danny Trejo: "Machete Kills Again ... in Space" is coming. In: Filmfutter. Retrieved on July 15, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Arthur A: Danny Trejo: "Machete Kills Again ... in Space" is coming. In: Filmfutter. Retrieved on July 15, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Machete Kills Again… In Space - Danny Trejo explains: That's the way it is with the sequel - BlairWitch.de. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .