Ever wanted to see Grand Theft Auto the movie?
This weekend we visited the Film 4 Frightfest at the Empire cinema in Leicester Square to see a preview screening of the Chilean exploitation movie: Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman. We weren’t disappointed!
Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman is a Latin 70s exploitation style story. Santiago, a video games obsessed loser whose job it is to DJ in a local bar run by Argentinian Mob boss Che Sausage, overhears a conversation between Sausage and his most trusted gang members. He is found and forced to either bring in or kill the country’s number one hit man; the Machine Gun Woman, whilst being followed by Boss Sausage’s henchmen.
A whole heap of assassins are also after the Machine Gun Woman, from street performers to hustlers and gangsters. Each assassin is introduced to us via a splash screen of their names and the value of the bounty on their heads in a very cool GTA style. Gun fights, brutal deaths and super stylized violence a plenty, plus a few laughs. I get the feeling that Boss Sausage was only named that so that it could be used in a single one liner, but it’s a good one, so I’m not even mad about it!
The Machine Gun Woman herself is super sexy, super violent and hard as nails. A very cool opening scene in a convenience store hammers these facts home with venom.
Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman is an absolute blast of an exploitation flick. It’s fun, violent and sexy with some great nods to the Grand Theft Auto series. The GTA style missions gave me a big smile each time they flashed up and the first-person-shooter style kill-cam shits all over the movie DOOM, with the scores racking up as we go along.
If you are a fan of exploitation movies, a fan of video game movies or a fan of world cinema, I would recommend Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman whole heartedly. The only draw back to it is that it’s subtitled. Now don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t usually matter to me if a movie is subtitled, but I just feel that some of the jokes in Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman have been lost in translation. I may be completely wrong, but it did feel like it.
There is a particular scene in the movie that could signal a sequel, and I would absolutely love to see it happen!
Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman is available in the UK on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download from the beginning of October. Get it while its hot!
