An action comedy with a Peckinpah inspired title, Chilean writer & director Ernesto Diaz Espionoza's "Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman" qualified as half-baked hokum from fade-in to fade out. You know a movie is in trouble when the eponymous heroine spends more time off screen rather than on it. Our DJ protagonist, Santiago (Matías Oviedo), is a weenie who lives with his mom. He is seated on a toilet in a stall one day when he eavesdrops accidentally on a private conversation among some intimidating Argentine thugs. They are hatching a plot to kill the eponymous character. The hoodlums discover that Santiago has been listening to them, and the chief thug Che Longana gives him an ultimatum. He has 24 hours to learn the whereabouts of the Machine Gun woman and report back to him or die. Bumbling, stumbling, and fumbling everything miserably, our clueless hero doesn't stand a chance against these homicidal mobsters. When he approaches a gun store dealer about buying a gun, he doesn't have any preference about models and betrays his ignorance about firearms in general. Hilariously, the gun store dealer refuses to sell our lame-brained hero a genuine gun. Instead, he trusts Santiago just enough to sell him an obvious BB-pistol! Who would tote any gun if it didn't work adequately?
Meantime, the titular babe aka The Machine Gun Woman (Fernanda Urrejola) looks absolutely stunning. She is decked out in a provocative S & M black leather outfit that emphasizes her cleavage. She wears calf-length boots with spiked heels. Basically, she doesn't have a qualm about blasting away with her weaponry. Red blooded males will drool like babies prior to breast feeding over this wet dream pin-up in stiletto heels. It is a shame she doesn't mow down more bad guys in sight! She is an accurate shooter who never wastes bullets. Initially, she has little use for Santiago until later after she catches lead in a rodeo yard shootout. A thug catches her by surprise and shoots her in the leg. Our pusillanimous protagonist tries to fake Longana off with his BB pistol, but the villain sees right through this pathetic ruse. During the rodeo scene, Santiago slips up behind Longana (Jorge Alis), the ruffian who plugged the Machine Gun Woman, and fears for his life if Longana catches him sneaking up. Alas,afree our heroine has brandished one of her pistols, lead flies in a swarm. By a strange set of circumstances, she shoos the ill-fated Longana in the calf of his leg and he stumbles momentarily and blows his face off accidentally with his own weapon! The wounded Machine Gun Lady insists Santiago remove the bullet before she bleeds to death.
As action comedies go, "Bring Me The Head of the Machine Gun Woman" has all the characteristics of a bottom of the barrel B-movie. It's too bad Epinoza didn't give the eponymous heroine a bigger role in this otherwise lackluster saga, low body count saga. Slow-moving at times, this low-budget nonsense had a lot of potential but the comic angle undermines what might have been a better actioneer. Don't let the title fool you!
Meantime, the titular babe aka The Machine Gun Woman (Fernanda Urrejola) looks absolutely stunning. She is decked out in a provocative S & M black leather outfit that emphasizes her cleavage. She wears calf-length boots with spiked heels. Basically, she doesn't have a qualm about blasting away with her weaponry. Red blooded males will drool like babies prior to breast feeding over this wet dream pin-up in stiletto heels. It is a shame she doesn't mow down more bad guys in sight! She is an accurate shooter who never wastes bullets. Initially, she has little use for Santiago until later after she catches lead in a rodeo yard shootout. A thug catches her by surprise and shoots her in the leg. Our pusillanimous protagonist tries to fake Longana off with his BB pistol, but the villain sees right through this pathetic ruse. During the rodeo scene, Santiago slips up behind Longana (Jorge Alis), the ruffian who plugged the Machine Gun Woman, and fears for his life if Longana catches him sneaking up. Alas,afree our heroine has brandished one of her pistols, lead flies in a swarm. By a strange set of circumstances, she shoos the ill-fated Longana in the calf of his leg and he stumbles momentarily and blows his face off accidentally with his own weapon! The wounded Machine Gun Lady insists Santiago remove the bullet before she bleeds to death.
As action comedies go, "Bring Me The Head of the Machine Gun Woman" has all the characteristics of a bottom of the barrel B-movie. It's too bad Epinoza didn't give the eponymous heroine a bigger role in this otherwise lackluster saga, low body count saga. Slow-moving at times, this low-budget nonsense had a lot of potential but the comic angle undermines what might have been a better actioneer. Don't let the title fool you!