Well it was awesome, as all Robert Rodriguez movies. The idea for the movie sprung from Robert Rodriguez' mind about 15 years ago, when Danny Trejo was cast for Desperado. According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado. He says, "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now. So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature."[14] In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in Desperado. "So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $25,000. I thought, 'That's Machete. He would come and do a really dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for everyone else over here it's peanuts.' But I never got around to making it."
There is just an amazing cast, that seem to connect effortlessly on screen. The film draws you in, with the hot chicks and bad ass, bloody fight scenes, but it's more than that. Of course, there is Robert Rodriguez' sense of humor brought to the film, and many real social issues are uncovered. The characters are all connected in someway. Go see it!!
