Machete Kills
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5.6Ex-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.
Released: 2013-09-12108 minDir: Robert RodriguezAction, Crime, Thriller
Cast
- Danny Trejo as Machete
- Mel Gibson as Voz
- Demián Bichir as Mendez
- Amber Heard as Miss San Antonio
- Michelle Rodriguez as Luz
- Sofía Vergara as Desdemona
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Robert Rodriguez
- Screenplay by
- Kyle Ward
- Story by
- Robert Rodriguez Marcel Rodriguez
- Produced by
- Robert Rodriguez Rick Schwartz Sergei Bespalov Alexander Rodnyansky Aaron Kaufman Iliana Nikolic
- Starring
- Danny Trejo Michelle Rodriguez Sofía Vergara Amber Heard Carlos Estévez Antonio Banderas Cuba Gooding Jr. Walton Goggins William Sadler Demián Bichir Mel Gibson
- Cinematography
- Robert Rodriguez
- Edited by
- Robert Rodriguez Rebecca Rodriguez
- Music by
- Carl Thiel Robert Rodriguez
- Production companies
- AR Films Demarest Films Quick Draw Productions Aldamisa Entertainment Overnight Productions 1821 Pictures
- Distributed by
- Open Road Films
- Release dates
- September 19, 2013 ( 2013-09-19 ) ( Austin Fantastic Fest ) October 11, 2013 ( 2013-10-11 ) (United States)
Key dates
- Published
- 3 October 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- vigilante film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Follows
- Machete
- Director
- Robert Rodriguez
- Screenwriter
- Robert Rodriguez
- Cast member
- Callie Hernandez
- Composer
- Robert Rodriguez
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
Article
Machete Kills (also known as Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills) is a 2013 American action exploitation film directed by Robert Rodriguez, with a screenplay by Kyle Ward, from a story by Robert and Marcel Rodriguez. Starring Danny Trejo, who returns in his role as the eponymous character, it is a sequel to Machete (2010), and is the third film based on a fake trailer in Grindhouse (2007). Michelle Rodriguez, Tom Savini, Electra and Elise Avellan, Felix Sabates, and Jessica Alba reprise their roles from the first film, and are joined by series newcomers Sofía Vergara, Amber Heard, Charlie Sheen (credited by his birth name of "Carlos Estévez"), Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Walt Goggins, William Sadler, Demián Bichir and Mel Gibson. The film follows the titular ex-federal (Trejo) as he is recruited by the U.S. President (Sheen) to stop an arms dealer (Gibson) and a revolutionary (Bichir).
Machete Kills was released in the United States by Open Road Films on October 11, 2013.