From the acting to the production design, the heightened presentation will test viewers (and not in a good way), even those versed in exploitation films of this sort.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 7, 2023

There are two kinds of people in the world, people who will watch a movie called Hobo With A Shotgun, and people who will avoid it at all costs. I fall in the former category, and if you do too, I have to believe that you will fall in love.

| Apr 2, 2020

I'm happy to see Hauer is still blowing folks away but I really do hope that the rest of the actors in this film never, ever work in front of the camera again.

| Original Score: 1.9/5 | Nov 6, 2019

Some may argue that Hobo with a Shotgun encapsulates a joke worn thin, but the B-movie energy that pulses through the veins of this beast is not to be denied.

| Dec 14, 2018

Hobo With A Shotgun is as likely to please Quentin Tarantino fans as it is to offend everyone else, with scenes of elaborate decapitations and scantily clad women writhing in the ensuing blood spatter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2018

It'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.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 13, 2018

... 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.

| Jun 15, 2017

It's nice to find a wacky movie that knows how to employ "shock value" violence with some degree of timing and cleverness.

| Aug 26, 2015

You get what you pay for with a movie like this. The question is whether it was worth paying for at all.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

This is the type of movie you want to punch in the face.

| Original Score: D | Jun 22, 2013

Hobo With A Shotgun is a film in the tradition of 70s exploitation films. But unlike most grindhouse films, this one is actually awesome.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 2, 2013

Such a desperate attempt at being one of Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino's '70s exploitation throwbacks that it's a little bit sad.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 5, 2012

A cult picture that's completely comfortable in its own skin.

| Original Score: 67/100 | Nov 30, 2011

Great title, but this silly vigilante action movie is so exaggerated, so over-the-top that it is over the hill. It has gone to seed and needs to be weeded.

| Original Score: C | Nov 23, 2011

This one is a sicko exercise in meaningless entertainment, geared for those who get off on moronic bloodbath pics.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 15, 2011

Hobo with a Shotgun celebrates its genre roots but in no way expounds on them; it's all pastiche with no substance.

| Oct 25, 2011

Gloriously over-the-top blood pudding about a homeless man (Hauer) who goes Dirty Harry on a dead-end town run by sadistic crims.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2011

It's a grindhouse mess but it stars Rutger Hauer!

| Sep 23, 2011

This film isn't for the weak of stomach or the tenderhearted. But if you think you can enjoy its silly, explosive and splatter nature, it's a nice dose of fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2011

Rutger Hauer is the show, the whole show, and nothing but the show in Hobo with a Shotgun, a throwback that, for all its bloodletting and supposed shock value, feels comparatively conventional and tame.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2011