*** out of ***** I'm usually repulsed by movies that are amongst some of the most violent I've seen. But that's because most of them are misogynistic, racist, or whatever-else, in their violence. "Hobo With a Shotgun" is one of those movies (that ranks amongst one of the most violent I've seen), but at the same time, it is different than most of the other films that would make the cut. Unlike the rest of them, it's not violent to induce fear or helplessness; it is violent … more
Star Rating: There’s a scene early in Hobo with a Shotgun where a man is hanging by his head, which is sticking out of a manhole in the middle of the street. His brother, a crime lord, kills him by putting a rope around his neck, tying the other end of the rope to a car bumper, and driving off, pulling his head clean off his body. One of the crime lord’s scantily clad trophy girls stands over the gaping wound and dances lewdly as she lets copious … more