“Hobo With A Shotgun” is a movie with no morals as it shows us blood and guts just for the sake of showing blood and guts without anything clever neither to say nor show. This miserable flick was surprisingly spawned from one of the fake trailers in “Grindhouse” (then again this arguably was the weakest trailer).

Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner”, “Batman Begins”) sadly finds himself in this movie as an unnamed hobo (credited as ‘Hobo’), who winds up in a horrible town filled with violent criminals and the film rams it down our throats how horrible they are with several unnecessarily disgusting scenes. He’s been pushed too far now and wages a one-man war against crime with a shotgun.

Rutger Hauer is a good actor and here he is given nothing interesting to say and nothing creative to do. I expected to see him shoot people but here there is nothing fun about it in the slightest and there is certainly nothing smart about it. The villains are really dull and their horribleness is oversold to us by the dozen. It doesn’t get to a point where it is ridiculous, it merely gets to a point where it becomes boring, tedious and just generally vile.

“Hobo With A Shotgun” is meant to be a comedy and although there are one or two things to snigger at such as the signs Hobo writes, it is just a dreadful picture; it lacks any comedic or artistic value. I’m still waiting for the trailer of “Werewolf Women of the SS” to be made into a film but sadly we’re stuck with this one. I’m glad I know the difference between smart violence in films such as “A Clockwork Orange”, fun violence such as “Army of Darkness” and the boring violence as in every dull slasher flick ever made; this film belongs in the category with the latter.