Language - English
Genre - Grindhouse
Hobo with A Shotgun started out as one of the spoof trailers
on the Taranto/Rodrigues ‘Grindhouse’ double bill and was later made into a
full length movie.
Hobo starts with a homeless man arriving in a new town with
the dream of getting the money together for a lawn mower so he can start his
own gardening business but he soon finds that the town he has arrived in is run
by the corrupt Drake who will happily make a show of ripping off the head of
his relatives. To begin with the Hobo is
happy to keep a low profile but he is taking note of the corruption around
him. The Hobo starts to stop the
criminal activity when he finds one of Drakes son’s trying to abduct a young
prostitute named Abby, the Hobo knocks out Drakes son and takes him to the
local police station only to find that the police are in Drakes pocket.
After witnessing a robber threaten to kill a baby the Hobo
uses the money he had for the lawn mower to get a shot gun and with the help of
Abby he sets out to clean up the town and get rid of Drake and the corrupt
police force.
People were a bit surprised that an actor with the
credentials of Rutger Hauer would take
on a part like the Hobo but he plays it well and it was also nice to see the
darker, creeper side of Brian Downey who
plays Drake, it makes a change from watching him as Stanly Tweedle in Lexx.
Hobo is a good film about a man trying to do what’s best
even if the methods he employs are wrong and we see a character who goes from
trying to mind his own business to trying to fix a corrupt town but who knows
that, in the end there is only one way to save himself from the corruption that
is overtaking him. Or I could just be
over thinking things; ether way Hobo with a Shotgun is an entertaining film
with a good amount of gore and action and some good characters and as I have
stated it does have a good story but, if all you want is people getting sliced,
shot and decapitated then sit back and enjoy
