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  • Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
    Review preview for Machete Maidens Unleashed!

    While the documentary doesn't shy away from some of the more unscrupulous practices it works as a love letter to a period where all bets were off and anything could happen.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    A documentary celebrating the Filipino exploitation films of the Seventies and Eighties, where lax health and safety regulations led to remarkable thrills.
  • Machete (2010)
    Review preview for Machete

    The pacing never lets up and the action continually tries to outdo itself with its inventiveness.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Armed only with his machete, a pissed-off Mexican sets out to avenge a set-up and the murder of his family, and to bring justice to a US border town.
  • Machete Kills (2013)
    Review preview for Machete Kills

    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?”

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    Machete is recruited by the US government to travel through Mexico and take down a drug dealer who plans to launch a deadly space weapon.

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