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Directed by
Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun trailer, Grindhouse, Treevenge - Sundance Film Festival 2008)
Starring
Rutger Hauer (Batman Begins, Sin City, Blade Runner, The Hitcher)
Gregory Smith (The Patriot, Everwood) Nick Bateman
Molly Dunsworth
Production
Rhombus Media (Blindness, Snow Cake, Clean), Whizbang Films and Yer Dead Productions
2010 / Original language: English / Color / 2.35 / Dolby SR SRD / available in hd & 2k
A train pulls into its final station and a Hobo hops from a freight car. He has dreams of a fresh life in a new city, but finds himself trapped in an urban hell instead. A city where criminals rule the streets, landlords evict single mothers in the middle of the night, and where the city's crime boss, The Drake, reigns supreme with his sadistic, homeless-killing sons, Slick & Ivan. Through the chaos, the Hobo comes across a shop window displaying a second hand lawn mower and a shotgun, and decides it's time to cut the grass, make the city beautiful and start a new way of life. But after witnessing the brutality that encompasses this city, he realizes the only way to make a difference in this place is with a gun in his hand and two shells in its chamber.
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Sundance Film Festival 2011
In Official Selection
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"Best title of Sundance fest"
Rolling Stone Us
"... clever send-up of heroism soaked in blood"
Screen Daily
"... a breaking point in the limits of self-referential ultra-violence..."
"The film certainly delivers what it promises."
"Color schemes are garish and cartoonish (in very retro-looking Technicolor), production design is reverentially stuck in the early '80s, and the sound design is pummeling."
Variety
"... fun, comically violent"
"Amazing..."
"A urban western with a lot of blood and gore..."
Indiewire
"... a Hiroshima of creative insanity"
"... the most fun movies I’ve seen in years."
"It will have you rolling with laughter if you’re sick enough to enjoy the insanity."
Collider
"Quirky, vigilante satire."
"The movie is funny in its hyperbole and excess."
Daily Utah Chronicle
"Imaginatively perverse, with gore galore and plenty of quotable dialogue."
The Onion Av Club
"Completely Badass!"
"Rutger Hauer : fantastic"
Geek Tyrant
"... Double-barreled mayhem as if Sergio Leone designed a video-game."
"Hobo with a Shotgun unspools like a spaghetti western but amped with enough testosterone to fill a video-game warehouse."
"Tech contributions are bad-ass perfect."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Even Crazier Than You Imagined..."
"... so incredibly over the top with its excess"
"Phrases and jokes that are either hilarious in their simplicity or genius in their juxtaposition."
Slashfilm
"Forget GRINDHOUSE or MACHETE. For real Grindhouse flavour, Hobo with a Shotgun is where it's at."
"Brilliant."
"Hauer, he's never anything less than amazing."
"... damn close to being a masterpiece of the Grindhouse variety."
Joblo
"Enjoy the madness!"
"Nearly perfect"
Cinematical
"Enthralling and exhilarating"
"An incendiary concoction"
"A fuckin' masterpiece"
Sound on Sight
"The gore is plentiful and the nudity gratuitous (just as it should be)."
"It's all good fun..."
"Hobo with a Shotgun will rock your world."
Ain't It Too Cool
"Between joke and satire."
"Hauer's performance is pitch perfect"
We Got This Covered
"A perfect storm of bloodshed..."
"Hobo with a Shotgun is so successful!"
Gordon and the Whale
"Hobo with a Shotgun is better than Machete"
"Delightfully absurd"
"Hauer : right mix of hero and clown"
"Beautifully shot and cleverly-written"
Film Drunk
"It’s a fun, comically violent throwback reminiscent of early Troma films-(only much better looking) in which Hauer stars hysterically"
"Amazing"
"A urban western with a lot of blood and gore, children being burned alive in a school bus, limbs being whacked off by a lawnmower blade, people being stabbed with ice skates and other shocking, debauched - so-astounding-its-hilarious violence."
Indiewire
