Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2014

The whole thing started as a joke trailer within a 2007 Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez grindhouse “homage,” which grew into a 2010 feature. I had fun at Machete. This sequel not so much. The joke is played out, Bob, and throwing an all-star cast at it (along with a bunch of severed heads) is not helping. Literally overkill. The once-stunning midnight mayhem has become repetitive. There are good bad movies, and there are bad bad movies. But it’s very hard to make a good intentionally bad movie, and this quickly devolves into a splatter comedy that, were it on TV, you’d soon be channel surfing. (107 min)