A messy homage that borrows (or steals) heavily in its visuals, music, camerawork, and timeline-hopping storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Bikers, babes, blood, booze ... and blah.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Hell Ride is a smoldering yet completely dull wreck of a movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2008

The dialog is clever, nutty and syncopated, with a soundtrack -- of the "C.C. Rider" vein -- which ain't half-bad, either.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2008

Instead of a sublimely ridiculous and sleazy bike-movie homage, Bishop delivers self-amused, emptily crude faux-grindhouse that only fanatics of the genre will excuse.

| Original Score: D | Sep 19, 2008

A revenge and biker warfare bonanza that will appeal to the folks who loved masterpieces like "The Warriors" and "Switchblade Sisters"...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 28, 2008

Having a properly slimy bit of modern exploitation filmmaking isn't something to scoff at, but I do wish that the experience had even a bit of fizz to it.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 15, 2008

The only thing that works in 'Hell Ride' is the throwback style and visual tone it lovingly mimics.

| Aug 11, 2008

It's a claustrophobic dud, full of ludicrously purple tough-guy dialogue and lip-smacking vamps in bikinis (how hot!), with so much monotonous hip violence there's scarcely room for anything else.

| Original Score: D | Aug 11, 2008

Maybe only once every six months am I in the mood for jokey sadism, but this struck me as the right picture for the right time.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2008

Not to be confused with the more famous grindhouse biker flicks of a bygone era, Hell Ride misses out on that critical sense of freedom on the open road.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 8, 2008

Bishop's film is an exercise in style and tone that certainly takes much from the genre that inspired it, but it certainly contributes nothing to legitimize its artistic integrity or extend its historical longevity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2008

"Hell Ride" is so bad that if I were forced to choose between seeing it again or seeing my worst nightmare version of what "Wild Hogs 2" might entail, I am fairly certain that I would select the latter without a moment's hesitation.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 8, 2008

The main problem is Bishop's adamancy on playing the lead tough guy when he's got the face of a shoe salesman.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 8, 2008

[Director Larry Bishop] burdens his film with clumsy art-house ambitions that clash with its embrace of bikes, beer and booty. If any of this sounds amusing, be warned: it's not.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Both dull and pretentious.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 8, 2008

A repellent revenge fantasy about two elderly motorcycle gangs, Hell Ride is, indeed, a hellish ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 8, 2008

Hell Ride is storytelling at its worst: the thinnest possible excuse for a wall-to-wall string of beheadings, throat-cuttings, mass murders and orgies, shot and edited in a murky, lackluster, faux-Spaghetti Western style.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 8, 2008