With the flurry of “Machete” imagery hitting the web last night and this morning, you knew it was only a matter of hours before the trailer to Robert Rodriguez’s new grindhouse style B-movie would hit online and well, as expected, here it is.
It screened a few days ago during press screenings of the Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed “Predators” and it’ll also be in front of that film when it hits theaters tomorrow.
Frankly, we don’t love it like we loved the Cinco de Mayo trailer and couldn’t Fox give the trailer to a site that actually has, you know, a quality player? But it seems like a broader trailer meant to suck in mainstream audiences and its simply not as fun as the first one we’ve seen (and therefore takes itself too seriously), but hell, it still looks like fun and we’ll give it a shot.
“Machete” features a pretty motley crew cast including Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson, Rose McGowan, Jeff Fahey (“Planet Terror”) and Daryl Sabara (“Spy Kids”). This character poster featuring Michelle Rodriguez (no relation) is a good consolation prize if you’re not feeling this version of the trailer.
Rodriguez penned the script himself and actually co-directed the picture with his longtime editor Ethan Maniquis (poor dude’s not getting much ink). Presumably he composed the music for it himself as well, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet (he scores most of his own pictures and the “Kill Bill 2” score is great). “Machete” is due in theaters September 3.