Machete Kills
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.
Our read · Machete Kills (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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