Machete Kills

Machete Kills
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Rodriguez
Screenplay byKyle Ward
Story by
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Marcel Rodriguez
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRobert Rodriguez
Edited by
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Rebecca Rodriguez
Music by
  • Carl Thiel
  • Robert Rodriguez
Production
companies
Distributed byOpen Road Films
Release dates
  • September 19, 2013 (2013-09-19) (Austin Fantastic Fest)
  • October 11, 2013 (2013-10-11) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Budget$20 million
Box office$17.5 million

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.