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Hobo Shotgun

It may well be that this was the most entertaining film I have seen in quite a while. Not good, no, God forbid, but fun all the same. Rutger Hauer (dude, where have you been?!) as a homeless guy comes into a town where things are wrong, violence everywhere, police and crime indistinguishable, killing a sport, or at least a casual pastime  He happens to team up with a pretty hooker, and together they take it on themselves to clean up both Sodom and Gomorrah. Equipped they are, as you would expect, with a gun, and – less expected – a lawnmower.

Everything is way over the top: the violence, the villains, the ice skating, the “demons” (well crafted from scrap metal), the “glory hole”, the John-Carpenter-like music, the script.  The latter so much so that this has been the first film in years where I checked IMDB’s “memorable quotes” section to revisit some of these gems:

I’m gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses tonight!  

When life gives you razor blades, you make a baseball bat… with razor blades.

• Hobo: Put the knife away, kid… or I’ll use it to cut welfare checks from your rotten skin!  
• Slick: Well you better cut one to Mother Theresa, so you can give it to her while she’s finger-banging you in Hell!  

And it  must be the coolest heroine ever who, in times of greatest danger, running out of time to save her friend, that girl starts a casual welding session to manufacture some advanced weaponry…

Four out of five hilarious lawnmowers! Instant classic!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hobo_with_a_shotgun/