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1/10
This movie is just plain bad
17 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I won't warn you of spoilers, but I will warn you of this awful, awful mess of a film. I read many reviews praising this disgrace to the skies, which made me eager to watch it. The high hopes I had for this film were crushed completely within the first quarter of an hour. I really don't know where to begin pointing out the countless shortcomings of this film, nevertheless I will try my best.

First, the allegedly refreshing and convincing story turned out to be among the most illogical, inconsequent crap ever written. The dialogs, oh my God, the dialogs. They were so freaking awkward. The actors were even to explain how they feel due to the lack of both storytelling and acting skills of these "genius" twins and their cast.

And the specious argument of gore is neither valid nor justifiable for this film. The effects are cheap in the cheapest sense of the word, far from convincing and some were even ridiculous. If the movie were labeled a comedy that would be okay, but according to its official IMDb page it's not.

The wild mix of genres, by some reviewers considered innovative, proved to be half-baked and shallow, and therefore unsatisfactory. One review I read compared the movie to a roller-coaster, and I can sort-of agree to that. Only I think it's a BROKEN roller-coaster!

Don't ride a broken roller-coaster, even if it's only figuratively spoken, it can cost you an awful lot of brain cells.

P.S.: I recommend re-watching "The Horribly Slow Murderer With The Extremely Inefficient Weapon" instead of wasting time for this abomination.
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9/10
Delighting!
4 August 2011
This movie is freaking awesome. I loved every minute of it. It's completely over the top, packed with gore and hilarious bad jokes but yet it's deeply ethical. The city depicted in this film is a (slightly) distorting mirror to our modern society. If you look close enough, you will see that "the plague" is already here, and that it is only a matter of time before we all go down the toilet like the protagonists of "Hobo with a Shotgun". The movie is part of the grindhouse revival kicked off by Rodriguez and Tarantino, but it reminded me more of "Tokyo Gore Police" than of classic exploitation flicks from the 60s and 70s. The only thing about this movie which was really 60s/70s style was the loud colors and the beautiful vintage music. All in all, this movie deserves the attribute "EPIC" and I would recommend it to anyone who can appreciate a good exploitation flick with a moral subtext - only if their stomach can take a bit of (I mean LOTS OF) gore, of course.
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