Desperado (1995) - Robert Rodriguez

With every Rodriguez film I watch, I wonder why he's not seen as famous as Tarantino, or the other big league directors. This film is brilliant. Antonio Banderas is famous for more than just Puss in Boots, and Salma Hayek: wow, what a sizzler. Phew.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Hell Ride (2008) - Larry Bishop

Hell Ride seems like a way for Larry Bishop to live all his dreams: he's a biker, a star and director in a movie, and he also just has sex with lots of women. It gets points for cheesiness, but everything that it does, Machete (2010) - Robert Rodriguez does far more superiorly and in a much more interesting fashion.
This film was hard to understand, and its main redeeming factor was that I couldn't place where I'd seen the character of Comanche before. And then it hit me! Eric Balfour was Jesse in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's pilot episode, who died, sadly.
Other than that, the age range of the actors and characters was a little too unbelievable.

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Machete (2010) - Robert Rodriguez

This is the cheesiest movie I have ever watched, but it gets away with it, because it's so bloody brilliant.  Danny Trejo is made to play Machete, and Juni (Daryl Sabara) from all the Spy Kids series - Robert Rodriguez is in it as well. Robert Rodriguez is a brilliant filmmaker and this film proves it.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆