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The comedy and thriller aspects of the film don't always gel but the character work is generally strong enough to carry us through it.

The emotions of the characters can barely find any wiggle room.

Aquaman is a far from bad way to pass a couple of hours at the cinema

What I most noted the return of was not kings but pacing issues.

Mandy is the final girl to end all final girls.

This is a story of artists and models, the common outsider's perception that art is about creating fantasies, the much more challenging reality that it's about drawing out truth.

The film gleefully rips off everything from genre classics like The Terminator to recent upstarts such as Shoot 'Em Up, but manages to do it with a tongue so firmly in cheek that you should be too busy grinning to care.

What also contributes to the film's success is its timeliness and the myriad little references and in-jokes that place it in a darker context.

Machete Kills is a jumbled assortment of loosely related scenes whose main theme appears to be “how many different ways can you kill people with a helicopter?”

Has all the ingredients of a fun Friday night out.

What you expect from a bunch of stoners, but done well enough so you won't care.