Bullet (2014)

If you're a Trejo fan, you might like this a bit more than others. It's an obvious "star" vehicle for him. Though not even close to the Machete league he elevated himself to. The action is sometimes decent, sometimes awful. The story itself not really worth mentioning (I don't even think it's possible to spoil any of it, even if you tried, because it's so clear cut).Some of the actors are way over the top (like the "german" bad guy of the week), which you'll either love or loathe. But even Trejo struggles at times with some lines. Especially trying to repeat one of the better jokes in movie history -> "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight" ... maybe even mocking his Machete character? Who knows? Only thing that's for certain: It doesn't work, because the delivery is off by miles! Add to that the inability of the bad guys and one slide/move by Trejo that would put Neo to shame (or Lucky Luke and his shadow combined)

We all like Danny Trejo. He's one of a kind. With his rugged mug he can be menacing, frightening, lovable and funny. In this outing, he gets off to a good start, even having some pretty good lines to spout. True, it's formula action, with, as usual in these films, lots of plot holes and contrived situations. As usual we have the good guy with serious problems, the bad guy who just can't get any badder, the child you know will end up being the bad guy's hostage. In this case they went overboard and threw in two hostages. And speaking of bad guys, who can better represent bad than Jonathan Banks? When he looks at you, you tremble. They even managed to work in a bridge in downtown LA. That's, as Tevye would say, "Tradition". Every action flick in LA has to have some scenes on, around and under one of the bridges. As soon as I saw the city hall in the background, I told my wife to watch for the bridge scene and we weren't disappointed. Maybe it's something in the city charter that any action film made in LA County has to have some scenes including one of the bridges over the LA River, or in the actual riverbed, or both. So far so good. They missed the abandoned factory shootout, but on a budget of $3,000,000 you can't have everything. Where this film falls apart — make that, where this film completely breaks down, is when a fully armored SWAT team with assault weapons hits an apartment and two men, one being Mr. Banks hitting on seventy, armed with two pistols, kill each and every one of the SWAT team plus a couple of other detectives with only Danny Trejo. escaping, we simply broke down in laughter. From there it was downhill the rest of the way, with the usual standoff and bittersweet ending. This started off as one of Mr. Trejo's better outings, but something got lost in the translation.

Review: Typical Trejo movie, but in this one he actually lives. This is your average cops against the baddies type of movie with some kidnapping added for flavour. Although Trejo is looking pretty old, he proves that he can still kick ass against the bad drug lord who is trying to save his son from a lethal injection in prison. The storyline isn't that complicated but it could have done with a bit of work. It isn't as bad as a lot of Trejo movies that I have seen lately, but it still felt like a B movie that deserved to go straight to DVD. Average!Round-Up: I'm enjoying watching these mindless Trejo movies, because you know what to expect. He usually dies within minutes of his movies, but in this one he lasted all the way through, which was quite surprising. He actually said more than a couple of lines and I could tell that the director wanted to make a franchise out his character. All of the other actors need to go back to acting school, but it can't really blame them because the script was pretty terrible. At the end of the day, it isn't amazing but it's a easy way to pass the day.Budget: $3million Worldwide Gross: N/AI recommend this movie to people who are into there thrillers about a cop trying to take down a drug lord, 2/10

So the movie is not a blockbuster, but its not a crappy B-movie either. It fit's somewhere in between. It's a flick for guys with a few laughs thrown in amid gritty action scenes, we even get a few 'bullet' time shootouts that are pretty nicely done.Danny Trejo is Danny Trejo. What else can you say? That stoic face delivers good lines and those hammer-fists deliver country-boy style beat-downs. Jonathan Banks works nicely opposite Trejo delivering a performance just as edgy as he gave in Breaking Bad. These two together on screen just doesn't get any better in my humble opinion. You can just tell these two guys, along with the rest of the cast, had a boatload of fun making this action packed film and prove once again that producers don't necessarily have to use high-end special effects and martial arts to make a great action flick. Give me a good story and some solid acting like this film delivers.Like a fine wine, Trejo and Banks only get better with age. I look forward to seeing these two in a film together soon.