Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 36
It certainly isn't subtle -- or even terribly smart -- but as a gleefully gory homage to low-budget exploitation thrillers, Hobo with a Shotgun packs plenty of firepower.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 8
It certainly isn't subtle -- or even terribly smart -- but as a gleefully gory homage to low-budget exploitation thrillers, Hobo with a Shotgun packs plenty of firepower.
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A train rolls into its final stop. From one of the freight cars jumps a weary-eyed transient with dreams of a fresh start in a new town. Instead, he lands smack-dab in the middle of an urban hellhole, a place where the cops are crooked and the underprivileged masses are treated like insignificant animals. This is a city where crime reigns supreme, and the man pulling the strings is known only as "The Drake." Along with his two cold-blooded and sadistic sons, Ivan and Slick, he rules with an iron
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Cast
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Rutger Hauer
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Molly Dunsworth
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Gregory Smith
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Brian Downey
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Nick Bateman (II)
Ivan
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Sick but fun.
Top CriticGore hounds will appreciate Hobo with a Shotgun, but it is so wan that even squeamish viewers will shrug it off with a yawn.
The movie just blows chunks.
It's all in good fun and sometimes a little clever; "Hobo" shoots low and scores an explosive spray of guts, if not glory.
A merrily blood-soaked homage to the vigilante action movies of the 1970s and early 1980s, "Hobo'' is a good idea in theory that's brought down by the banality of its practice.
"Hobo" breathes new life into the demented realm of grindhouse cinema - a world that had grown pretty stale to this point.
An artless film of amateurishly scripted and staged over-the-top violence
Such a desperate attempt at being one of Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino's '70s exploitation throwbacks that it's a little bit sad.
A cult picture that's completely comfortable in its own skin.
Great title, but this silly vigilante action movie is so exaggerated, so over-the-top that it is over the hill. It has gone to seed and needs to be weeded.
This one is a sicko exercise in meaningless entertainment, geared for those who get off on moronic bloodbath pics.
Gloriously over-the-top blood pudding about a homeless man (Hauer) who goes Dirty Harry on a dead-end town run by sadistic crims.
It's a grindhouse mess but it stars Rutger Hauer!
This film isn't for the weak of stomach or the tenderhearted. But if you think you can enjoy its silly, explosive and splatter nature, it's a nice dose of fun.
Rutger Hauer is the show, the whole show, and nothing but the show in Hobo with a Shotgun, a throwback that, for all its bloodletting and supposed shock value, feels comparatively conventional and tame.
Fun to a point, but by about the hour mark I was more than ready to check out.
The relentless and pointless sadism of the film left me cold and bored, which not even the presence of Rutger Hauer could cure.
A film that can't resist picking its own scabs.
Hobo With a Shotgun reminded me of Hatchet, another inexplicable genre favorite that, from where I sat, seemed to do little but rearrange genre tropes to get a Pavlovian rise from its niche audience.
Rutger Hauer at least seems to be in on the joke, even if the joke wears pretty thin.
Belongs at the bottom of a disused coal mine in one of those desperately impoverished West Virginia townships that advertise for people to send them their nuclear waste.
It stomps over any notions of good taste and credibility after roughly five minutes.
Crude fun.
Fans of the genre will relish the ironies (or, as it's known in the trade, the chance to have your cake and eat it).
This is a gloriously OTT, gore-filled riot.
Audience Reviews for Hobo With a Shotgun
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An incredibly brave and intense film, Hobo with a Shotgun is one of my favourite films of the year. It's a great movie that's self aware of how disgusting and un-cinematic it is and is without any doubts perfect for the audience it's going for. Hobo is a gleeful exploitation film reviving the grindhouse characteristics with a name that's not in the slightest glamourous or sophisticated. Although a fantastic gorefest perfect for fans of sleazy horror, it's got both morals and a heart. Rutger Hauer's performance as a homeless person running riot killing people is brilliant and a remarkably believable character. There's a very peculiar pleasure out of seeing him at his most unrestrained since The Hitcher. But overall, it packs plenty of firepower horribly and disturbingly, in the best possible way. It's easily one of the most strangely smart modern exploitation films i've seen in a long time. Despite being born out of Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse project. That pretty much turned out to be a border line disaster.
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- The Drake: When life gives you razor blades, you make a baseball bat covered in razor blades. [rips open a thug's stomach with razor-covered bat]
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- Slick: You know how I can tell I make you wet?
- Abby: No.
- Slick: Because you're making my dick thirsty.
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- Abby: You can't solve the whole world's problems with a shotgun.
- Hobo: That's all I know.
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- Abby: My legs are closed for tonight.
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- Hobo: SHE'S A TEACHER! [blasts cop's head off with shotgun]
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- Hobo: You smart and intelligent, you should be a teacher.
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