April shows up wearing a nun's habit after escaping from the church and shoots McLaughlin after figuring out that he has killed her father.
Machete fights Torrez and stabs him, who then scornfully kills himself through Seppuku. Jackson tries to escape, but Luz, who survived and now sports an eye patch, shoots him in the back of the head. When McLaughlin arrives at the base, Jackson turns on him for being involved with the Mexican drug trade and attempts to execute him, but is interrupted when Machete and the illegals arrive.ĭuring this confrontation, the Mexican illegals triumph over the border vigilantes. In order to eliminate the people who double-crossed him, Machete gathers the Mexican Network and leads them to the base of the border vigilantes. Infuriated, McLaughlin kills Booth and heads back to join Torrez and Jackson to kill Machete. Through the CCTV recordings, the news of McLaughlin's corruption and faked assassination is eventually aired on national television. Unbeknownst to Booth, the church has cameras. Padre kills their henchmen before the two incapacitate him and kill him by nailing him to a cross, but do not find Booth's wife and daughter. A group of border vigilantes, sponsored by McLaughlin and led by Von Jackson, begin attacking anyone who may be harboring Machete and shoot Luz in the right eye.īooth and Osiris lead a raid on the church. Elsewhere, Booth, who is revealed to be working for Torrez, hires a hitman, Osiris Amanpour, to assist in the hunt for Machete. After encountering Machete, Sartana begins to develop an interest in him. He also collects evidence from Booth's house linking McLaughlin and Torrez in a major drug trafficking deal. To take revenge on Booth, Machete kidnaps Booth's wife June and his daughter April, after "starring" in an amateur adult film with them. Machete, with the help of Luz, aka Shé, the leader of an illegal immigrant aid movement known as the Network, recruits Padre, his "holy" brother. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is sent by her superior to find and capture the injured Machete. By setting up Machete as the gunman, the conspirators make it appear that an outlaw illegal Mexican immigrant has tried to assassinate the senator, who is known for his tough stance on illegal immigration.Īn injured Machete escapes capture by Booth and is taken to a hospital to be treated for wounds, escaping once again from Booth's henchmen at the hospital. It is revealed that Booth orchestrated the attempted assassination as part of a false flag operation to gain public support for McLaughlin's secure border campaign. The henchman shoots Machete in the shoulder, then shoots McLaughlin in the leg. Machete trains a rifle on McLaughlin from a rooftop during a rally, but before he fires he sees one of Booth's henchmen aiming at him. Machete accepts the murder contract after Booth threatens to kill him if he does not. In order to stop this, Booth offers Machete $150,000 to kill McLaughlin. Michael Booth, a local businessman and spin doctor, explains to Machete that corrupt Texas State Senator John McLaughlin is sending hundreds of illegal immigrants out of the country, which would reduce the number of laborers.
Three years later, a down-and-out Machete roams Texas, scraping by on yard work. During the operation, his partner is killed, the kidnapped girl stabs him in the leg before being killed herself, and Machete is betrayed by his corrupt Chief to the powerful drug lord and former Federal, Rogelio Torrez, who kills Machete's wife and implies that he will kill his daughter before leaving him for dead. In Mexico, Machete Cortez, a Mexican Federal and his younger partner are on a mission to rescue a kidnapped girl. A sequel, Machete Kills, solely directed by Rodriguez, was released on October 11, 2013. Machete was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on September 3, 2010. This was Trejo's first lead role as the character, and Seagal's first theatrically released film since 2002's Half Past Dead.
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The film stars Danny Trejo reprising the title role from the Spy Kids series and the fake trailer, and co-stars Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, and Robert De Niro.
#Machete screenit movie#
Machete continues the B movie and exploitation style of Grindhouse, and includes some of the footage from the original. Based on the eponymous character from the Spy Kids franchise, the film is an expansion of a fake trailer of the same name published as a part of the promotion of Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 Grindhouse double-feature. Machete is a 2010 American exploitation action film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis.
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