"Delivering justice, one shell at a time..." This is the tagline that accompanies the quite fun new revenge-action flick, Hobo With A Shotgun (can we call this neo-grindhouse? -- of course we can! -- and I do in my review as a matter-of-fact). This tagline, along with its outrageously pinpoint title, pretty much sums the film up rather nicely. Sure the film is purposely over the top (can you believe this is a major critical concern for some!?) and the gore flies with a giddy and quite gruesome bravura (as it damn well should in such a genre) which scares many of the weaker set off, but in the end (and what a Grand Guignol ending it happens to be) Hobo With A Shotgun is a (pun very much intended) blast to watch. My review of said blast of a film is up and running over at The Cinematheque. Read it at your own risk.
2 comments:
Nice review. I liked the film as well, though I think I found it a bit more operatic and disturbing than you did. It really kind of takes you to a deeply nihilistic place, when you think about it -- far less "fun" than MACHETE.
Thanx.
Yeah, perhaps I just don't have much of a conscious. But yes, certainly operatic.
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