If you didn't like this movie, then you took it far too seriously. If you have yet to see this, don't be critical, because its not out to win awards, its out to entertain, so give it and yourself a break. Just enjoy it for what it is.

"The film treats its dystopian vigilante saga with just enough of a straight face to get at the underlying insanity of its righteous-avenger protagonist." - Nick Schager

This movie is freaking trippy. The fake trailer was funny, but stretched out, it is a very bizarre and gory film. There aren't many films like this one.

a perfect exploitation grindhouse themed movie

Rutger Hauer still has it. In the middle of an intentional cheesefest, he puts in a rock-solid performance as a bum who has had enough. As for the movie itself - very satisfying and pretty much just what I expected. There are tons of inside jokes sprinkled in (tiny incapacitating net FTW!).

It's Rutger Hauer. Playing a hobo. With a shotgun. ...That's really all you need to know. Sure I could say it's an over-the-top Taxi Driver with Rutger Hauer instead of Robert DeNiro, a hobo instead of a taxi driver, and a shotgun instead of a revolver. I could tell you it's based on one of the fake trailers for Grindhouse. I could talk about the most garish use of technocolour since the 60s. But ultimately, it's Rutger Hauer in Hobo With A Shotgun. This movie is this movie.

while the genre doesn't do much for me, it's refreshing to see a legitimate exploitation film with no artsy pretense or ironic self-awareness to it being made in this century.

REAL FUN!!! The best of all Grindhouse adaptions i think :)

Perhaps one of the most unambiguous titles ever conceived - with Hauer playing the eponymous character, it's probably already everything you need to know. Graphic violence makes this not for the squeamish, but under the circumstances, well acted and crafted; Hauer's touching performance, along with the two Tom Cruise impersonators, stands out. Unlike many modern "Grindhouse" films, there is no sign of artificial wear and tear on the "negative" - thankfully. Fun if you're of the mind to enjoy it.

Hobo with a Shotgun is the crown jewel in the continuing series of 'Grindhouse' pictures. The colors are over-saturated, the villains and hero bring gore galore, you fall in love with a simple tramp and things escalate to ridiculous levels, but it works! This is what 'Machete' almost was. This is what 'Rubber' wasn't even close to being. I love everything about this movie, but would have loved to see how David Brunt would have handled the titular role. Hauer is fantastic, but c'mon! DAVID BRUNT.

"When life gives you razor blades, you make a baseball bat covered in razor blades.%u201D

Of all the films in the recent Grindhouse revival, "Hobo" is the only film that seems like it was plucked straight from the sleezier side of the 70s. Possibly one of the most entertaining films of the year so far, the film features everything an exploitation fan could ask for and more.

Gets the grindhouse job done, much in the same way Machete did (although I wouldn't rank it as high as the awesome Planet Terror). I laughed when I realized the villain's son/henchman was the kid from Everwood.

This should have been a blast but I was doped up on painkillers and a little on the tired side so I'll have to give it another go when healthy again.

Over the top shit, but that was the point. Great gore effects.

Great soundtrack, great look and style but fails to capture the charm of the films it's trying to evoke, and becomes this gorier Hot Shots for the genre. Overall, great fun.

Definitely better than Machete!

I know it's a self-aware throwback to supposed trash/exploitation of yore, but I don't see why that makes it any less stupid and vile.

Some stuff is really cool.

By playing it so straight, it has the feel of a bad straight-to-dvd Troma film. I prefer the more tongue-in-cheek approach offered by Grindhouse and Machete.

Tries too hard to be a cult movie, but still GOOD SHIT !!!

If you want an evening of pure exploitative sadism, you're in for a helluva ride! 'Over the top' doesn't quite fit the bill; this film rips the top off with a meathook and curbstomps the rest into the ground, where it explodes in a shower of blood and guts. It can't be taken seriously and that's exactly why it works. Great neon color scheme, great use of shitty music, and Hauer is delightfully twisted. I give it four burnt out school-buses out of five!

Watch this with a bunch of friends and laugh your asses off. It's so over the top and so awesome you can not hate this. Rutger Hauer is seriously badass

you get to the point where it's OVER disgusting and it's all fun and games from there.

5hit yeah this movie has style, all kinds of crazy characters and a quick pace to keep your eyes glued to the set the whole time. Great movie i loved it.

Kinda veers back-and-forth between "delightfully tasteless" and "annoyingly excessive," but in the end it's a pretty fun way to spend 86 minutes.

Set in some post apocalyptic rebuild society where anarchy reigns a little too freely and the atrophying human dialogue changes trajectory mid sentence, Hobo With a Shotgun is super grunge, mixed with 80's arcade and neon overkill coloring. Spot the continuity errors would be a fun drinking game coupled with this film.

Hobo with a Shotgun isn't a good film, but it isn't trying to be. It aimed to be terrible, look awful, feel dated, and so on. But that's part of the fun with these kinds of films, and if you enjoy trashy, exploitation movies, you'll probably like this one. Those of you who don't, avoid it at all costs, as you won't have a good time. You might want to head to Canada with a shotgun and shoot the people who made it. Take justice into your own hands.

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Seriously? You got $3,000,000 to make this? $3,000,000 and you couldn't get a decent script?

Loads of gory, tasteless fun! It's no nonsense simplicity, compared to "Planet Terror" for example, completely works in its favour. The casting is perfect too, and it looks great. Displaying an admirable lack of decourm and a spectacuar amount of vino, this is grindhouse done just right.

I guess maybe the people giving this a low score expected something different; Hobo with a Shotgun is ridiculous and over-the-top, but it doesn't try or mean to be something other than that. It's a fun time and if you just go into it with the proper expectations, there's no reason to not enjoy it.

Without a doubt this is a far better effort than Machete which quickly became a repetitive and relatively generic movie. Rutger Hauer manages to really give the most charisma despite how utterly absurd it is. He plays his role completely straight which results it far better comedy then if it had been played for laughs. Yes, Hobo with a Shotgun is full of gore but it's so over the top that it's impossible to take seriously. Highly recommended as a comedic take on the grindhouse genre.

Just a fuckin waste of time...

No doubt the single-most bat-shit insane movie I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. What better way to counter-attack a world of absolute insanity, than to act absolutely insane yourself? But it's kind of a lovely thing to see Hobo act so insane but really have an admirable personality, world view, and response to the world around him. He answers chaos with chaos. But the most important thing is, he rolls deep with a boomstick and unlimited ammo. An indulgent delight, does everything right.

Hauer is way too good for this.

People didn't like this movie? Holy shit. Maybe it's because I watched it with a group, but this is the most fun I've had with a movie in a long time.

I'd say this is just about a perfect evocation of a mid-80's garbage action movie, up to and including the fact that it's unwatchably ghastly, just like most of the movies it's lampooning/paying homage to. The years have made us forget how thoroughly incompetent flicks like "Exterminator 2" and "The Annihilators" were; luckily, we've now got this thing to remind us. Grotesquely wretched in just about every respect, and it wastes a fairly poignant Hauer performance.

the first half of the movie is awesome gore-trash at its finest. unfortunately the second half fails miserably at the atempt of beeing cool and crazy - should have been cut out entirely in favour of a good 1hour version.

All that one could want from a grindhouse flick: boobs, gore, vulgarity, shotguns. The most surprising aspect of the film was its emotional depth.

I really wanted to like this, I am big fan of Hauer, but this is just barely watchable. It's packed with cheesy one-liners and bad acting, except for Hauer. If you're really into Grindhouse like Machete, give this a go. Otherwise skip it.

Hobo with a Shotgun blows away any of the other recent grindhouse or exploitation films and then keeps on going down path after path that you didn't think they'd actually go down and get away with. Filled with boatloads of black humour and one-liners, this movie is absolutely hilarious if you can get past or accept the ridiculous blood and gore. Everything is so ridiculously over the top that it's easier to accept than if it had been played straight. A true classic of Canadian cinema.

Gory, with ridiculous kills, and even some crazy badasses (The Plague). It's kind of sad that I felt something during this movie because it's so silly. I think it's just because I naturally feel for homeless people. So it's nice to see the cheesy one liners, the intentional overacting, and the redemption. I also like the speech that Abby gives, that has the line (not exact): "They have the biggest home, the streets. We're in it, so you can show some god damn respect."

This bit of exploitation just didn't connect with me. Is it homage? Parody? The "real" grindhouse movies didn't *try* to be bad. Neither do recent homages like "Death Proof". This movie exists in a weird limbo where it's gleefully trying to be bad, thinking we'll be exhilarated when it succeeds. It's tonally perfect, and the practical effects are fun and inventive, but the movie that holds it all together just isn't good.