Machete

Machete is an upcoming 2010 film by Robert Rodriguez. It is an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It will star Danny Trejo (in his first lead role) as the title character. The film also stars Jeff Fahey, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, and Cheech Marin.This film will be Steven Seagal first theatrical release since Exit Wounds in 2001. Machete is a renegade former "Mexican Federale". He roams the streets of T... more

Machete is an upcoming 2010 film by Robert Rodriguez. It is an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It will star Danny Trejo (in his first lead role) as the title character. The film also stars Jeff Fahey, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, and Cheech Marin.This film will be Steven Seagal first theatrical release since Exit Wounds in 2001. Machete is a renegade former "Mexican Federale". He roams the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez. Benz, a spin doctor, tells Machete that McLaughlin, a corrupt senator, is sending hundreds of illegal immigrants out of the country and that he must be killed. He offers him $150,000 to kill McLaughlin. Attempting to assassinate the senator, Machete is double-crossed and is shot in the neck. Now on the run and being tracked by Sartana, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with a special interest in the blade slinger, Machete goes after Benz and his men with the help of his "holy"... less