Hobo With a Shotgun

" Hobo With a Shotgun"

"As Reported by Dollyforme"

The stunningly yummy Mollie Dunsworth stars in Hobo With a Shotgun, the second feature film to be spun off a mock trailer from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse movie. Hobo With a Shotgun promises much with a cool title, and the casting of the excellent Rutger Hauer alongside the super hot Mollie who plays Abby – a hooker with a heart. This is Molly’s first feature film, but I’m sure it won’t be her last!

The ‘story’ has a nameless Hobo (the perfectly cast Rutger Hauer) riding into Hope Town, only to find that it has become a crime ridden hole, ruled over by crime boss ‘The Drake’ (Brian Downey) and his sons Slick and Ivan (Gregory Smith and Nick Bateman) and renamed Fuck Town. The Hobo witnesses a robbery while he’s in a pawn shop, picks up a shotgun and start dispensing his own brand of bloody justice, aiming to leave Fuck Town (nope, that’s not getting funnier) to start a new life and a business with Abby (Molly Dunsworth), a prostitute he saved from Slick.

Hauer is a good actor, a great one even, but as has been the problem for many years in his less illustrious than he deserves career, he is howver given a lot to do here. His speechs are enough to get his teeth into - either something about bears (really, don’t ask) or a speech to the babies, but for most of the movie he’s stuck delivering one liners like “You and me are goin’ on a car-ride to hell… and you’re riding shotgun!” and looking slightly pissed off about it. T o his credit, Hauer does a great performance, however, the same can’t really be said of the villains, who end up being too over the top to really be scary, but they are good for a couple of laughs.

The movie looks great and it embraces the grindhouse look, creating an authentic late 70?s feel (complete with ropey effects).
I saw this movie at a midnight screening, packed with exploitation fans, this film worked its magic on the crowd. As an homage to grindhouse films it’s a masterpiece of cinema. Hobo With a Shotgun along with Machette are grindhouse films as good as the original two – Planet Terror and Death Proof, actually better in some ways. Is a Grindhouse 3D far away? We’ll see.