a5c7b9f00b A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun. 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&#39;s crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo 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. Rutger Hauer is back. And let me say that he IS back. Man, did I enjoyed this exploitation. Be honest, the score is back to the grindhouse era, the sun into the lens of the camera giving all those flair faults like in the heydays, the yellow credits and the way they were shown. And then of course the way they exploit the gore and red stuff. I thought Machete was a way to go but Hobo goes much further. Jason Eisener, the director made contact to put his fake trailer in between the grindhouse flicks of Rodriguez and Tarantino. They did and immediately it became a fav of the geeks together with Machete and Werewolf Women Of The SS. Jason had a wet dream about putting Rutgera main lead, and by stupid circumstances he was able to contact him and Rutger agreed. I know that some people will have difficulties with the last 20 minutes when the squid appearsdid The Plague but that&#39;s what exploitation and grindhouse is all about. But the gore is extreme here, when someone is shot the red stuff do flies in gallons and the decapitation in the beginning is so well done. Knowing that Robert Rodriguez helped Ethan Maniquis to direct Machete and that this is Jason&#39;s first attempt I go for Hobo, much gorier and without the big names. So now it&#39;s up to Werewolf Women Of The SS. Way to go, back memory lane to exploitation field. This is the movie that Planet Terror and Death Proof should have been. It is a dark, fun, over the top violent, sleazy film that provides a roller coaster ride for the viewer. Unlike the aforementioned two films, this one really feels like you are watching this in a trashy Grindhouse cinema.<br/><br/>Rutger Hauer was simply awesomethe nameless hobo who has had enough of the scum destroying his town. There are plenty of over the top gore moments including heads blown off at close range, amputations, stabbings, electrocutions and much more. It is all shot in good fun (think Dead Alive or the Evil Dead).<br/><br/>Everything about this movie was a throwback to the 1970&#39;s/1980&#39;s schlock films that were all about uncensored shoestring budget thrills, bare-bones plot, real life inaccuracies, grandiose speeches about life from two-bit characters, etc. Even the ending, which I will not give away, felt exactly like a typical Grindhouse film.<br/><br/>Excellent B-Movie homage with great characters and special effects. Just when you think it can&#39;t top itself, it does again in the next scene. There's something appealing about the movie's unpretentious carnival of carnage, although I could have done without the flamethrower assault on a school bus to raise the stakes.
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