Sundance 2011—The Return (3)

Sundance Film Festival 2011*

Park City, Utah

Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

Rated R

The title says it all. Hobo with A Shotgun. If that puts a smile on your face and you like nonstop, cartoonish violence and whatever-the-moment-needs plotting, come on in, the water’s warm … and bloody.

Rugter Hauer attends a late-night screening of Hobo with a Shotgun at the Library Theater in Park City. (Credit: John Brown)

Director Jason Eisener (V/H/S/2) aims his post-apocalyptic film for the distant horizon then puts the petal to the floor.

Rutger Hauer’s title vagrant mills about the worst town in America, watching men, women and children alike slain by a sadistic meanie and his equally abhorrent sons.

All’s good until things get personal for our bummy hero. He picks up a shotgun and … you know the rest. Only the Midnight Movie Madness crowd and/or gorehounds need apply.

*Note: Since marvincbrown.com had not been created at the time of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, I decided to go back and repost these reviews and festival  items, which were catalogued elsewhere—mainly because I needed to get these reviews into my archives, but also because it was an enjoyable experience I’d like to share.

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