Bullet review

Trejo fires a few blanks

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“When people wake up in the morning, they see sunshine. When I wake up I see shit… and I gotta clean it up... and I like my job.”

And that’s the snappiest one-line from another Mexican’t grindhouse vehicle for Danny Trejo that misfires from start to finish.

Jonathan Banks (aka Mike from Breaking Bad ) is the cartoon cartel boss who kidnaps the governor’s daughter and incurs the wrath of Trejo’s geriatric detective/part-time cage-fighter.

Completed amid an ugly legal battle with producer Robert Rodriguez, director Nick Lyon patches together a dull, dumb, accidentally funny lump of cop-schlock that desperately needs a Machete.