Hobo With A Shotgun

This film started life as a fake trailer in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double bill. If fact most of those fake trailers were so loved that nearly all have now become full films. This film has been made to look like an old eighties exploitation film, with a synth score, old font styles, over saturated colours and over the top blood effects. It pulls it off perfectly. You could be excused for thinking this was a 20 year old film, not one made in 2011. Rutger Hauer is great as The Hobo as he becomes a vigilante with a shotgun in a town of crime lords and corrupt police. He's one of those actors who you know has been in a lot of things but other than Blade Runner I can't actually think of any. He becomes a character so well you don't associate the face with other roles. Brian Downey did a great job as the crime lord but his face I do recognise, he'll always be Stanley Tweedle from Lexx to me. Lots of over the top blood and action here but still with a heart and a message. I really enjoyed this.