HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (2011) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Jason Eisener
Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth, Brian Downey,
Gregory Smith, Nick Bateman, David Brunt
Transgression sidles up to Grand Guignol in a dystopian action piece that crosses a few lines you probably haven't seen crossed in a mainstream movie before. Rutger Hauer plays the title character, who gives up his dream of buying a pawnshop lawnmower and invests in a pawnshop shotgun instead. It's a vicious and cartoonish vision of urban hell and a grim speculation on what the future of human civilization might look like. Personally, I liked it, but it's a movie not everybody will want to watch. Filmed in Nova Scotia and derived from one of the fake trailers in "Grindhouse" (2007). If all of Nova Scotia looks like this, we're in more trouble than we thought.
