I bet you are wondering what this movie is about.
The film was made in part because of the Grindhouse films that Quentin Tarintino and Robert Rodeguiez made. They had a contest for the best fake trailer and this films entry won. It was then made into a feature film.
The Hobo in the title is played wonderfully by Ruter Howard. He seems to be the only one playing it straight. Or at least he is playing it like he is the only person that doesn't realize he is in a B movie. The rest of the cast os totally over the top, and they are written that way. It sort of funny at first, then it grew a little tiresome. The prostitue was a bad actress, but she was cute.
The film had a definite visual style to it. It was overloaded with color and over contrast. The result was a film that doesn't look like anything else I have seen in a while, but there is probably a reason for that.
The town in the city where the hobo visits is ran by a gang of hedonistic gang members. They don't seem to have any motivation. They just wreak havoc where ever they go. In my eyes this made them seem uninteresting and one dimensional. I know, I am not supposed to be looking for character motivation in a movie where a bikini clad woman dances in the neck blood spewing from a decapitated head after a truck has ripped it off with a chain. But violence for the sake of violence does nothing for me. Also, I don't think I would have minded so much if the hobo was acting the same way. But because he seems based in reality, it made the over the top aspects seem all the more fake.
All in all I enjoyed the film, but I am glad I waited to see it for free. I give Hobo with a Shotgun a ★★★.
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