
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes, and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo (Rutger Hauer) goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice wi... (Full plot summary below)
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A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes, and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo (Rutger Hauer) goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
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| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonI'd take the last 10 minutes over the latest Hollywood CGI megabore any day. |
| MovielineJen YamatoHit the B-movie sweet spot just right, as Jason Eisener mostly does in his gleefully gory Hobo with a Shotgun, and you could find yourself living the dream. |
| OregonianShawn LevyThere's plenty of blood and screaming and mayhem, and it's not particularly well-staged, shot or cut -- though I suppose actually caring about film craft denotes one as a spoilsport in this context. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Corey HallLimbs are severed, heads roll, a school bus is incinerated, and a dude gets burnt by sticking his hockey skate into a plugged in toaster. Some is clever, but much of it's wearying and a bit lame... |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeHobo with a Shotgun is what downhome we'd call a 'hoot.' Maybe two hoots. The title alone says it all. |
| Mania.comRob VauxHobo With a Shotgun pushes every button it can find, then pounds them into the panel, then smashes the panel with a wrecking ball. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumChris BumbrayAt times I found myself doubled over in hysteria at the complete insanity of the carnage I was watching on-screen. HOBO was a blast! |
| MSN.comSean Axmaker... a blood-spattered love letter to the grindhouse vengeance movie by first-time filmmakers who, as Spinal Tap might put it, crank everything up to 11. |
| HeyUGuysJamie NeishIt's clear Eisener has an eye for the schlock genre and, by letting his imagination run wild, Hobo with a Shotgun emerges as a sure-to-be perennial, shockingly violent and wonderfully clever yet purposely screwball modern-day vigilante thriller. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovHobo 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. |