Larry Bishop, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen

Bad-ass biker Pistolero (Larry Bishop) hits the road to avenge the killing of his lover Cherokee Kisum (Julia Jones) by a rival motorcycle gang the 666ers, along with his brother The Gent (Michael Mad...( read more  read more... )sen) and the mysterious Comanche (Eric Balfour).

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R, 1 hr. 23 min.

Directed by: Larry Bishop

Release Date: August 8, 2008

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DVD Release Date: October 28, 2008

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  • September 2, 2009
    A bit of a shambles in every respect. It was hard to figure out what the hell was going on, with the incoherent story, choppy narrative and poor acting. The acting is really bad, mostly from Bishop. He tries to become more and more intense, but just comes off as lecherous, seedy ...( read more)and in desperate need of a huge shit. As the film plods along it simply wreaks of Kill Bill camaraderie. Carradine shows up, Madsen and Bishop are there, Tarantino produces. This is a film they've made for themselves, from a lost genre,but haven't bothered to improve on the failings.
  • March 22, 2009
    First off, this isn't as wacked out on crack as Mad Dog Time. Here, Bishop does a kind of homage to the Biker Films of the early 70's by way of Tarantino. (Producer here.)

    The unfortunate things about this are that Bishop is no Tarantino and he really only has about 45-50 mins...( read more). of story. So, he emulates all of the bad thing about Biker Films: padding with crappy improvised scenes. He also pads with the grindhouse elements that helped make them popular: lots of sex and the obligatory drug trip.

    In the end, the atmosphere is dead on, some of the cast is wasted (and they probably were in a couple of cases) and the crazy acting is toned down a bit from previous efforts. The thing is, if you're going to this because of your memories or an actual fan of this genre, then your sights are not set too high and this should come in right about where it needs to. Think of this as the missing third part of a fictional triple bill in Grindhouse. After Death Proof you'd no doubt feel better about it than just seeing it solo.
  • December 29, 2008
    was hoping 4 sumtin better but it was ok, pretty trippy.
  • November 17, 2008
    If you think back to the original concept for Grindhouse, Rodriguez and Tarantino were going to make their films based on the premise, "What if the drive-in/grindhouse movies had been as good as the posters made them seem?" Rodriguez lived up to the premise. He made a movie with ...( read more)all the CGI frills, all the gore, and all the action that were never actually in those films back in the day. Essentially, he made a Robert Rodriguez movie from a 1969 movie poster. Tarantino, however, did not make a modern Tarantino movie. He basically just made a perfect clone of the period films. Just about everything that was wrong with drive-in films was also wrong with QT's clone.

    Which brings us to Hell Ride, another type of drive-in film: the biker flick. Writer/director Larry Bishop got Tarantino's "mark of approval" for this one and gave QT a producer credit ... and went about making the same mistake Tarantino made with Death Proof. He recreated a late 60s biker flick, bugs and all. Was there anything you disliked about biker flicks? Bad acting? Hell Ride has it. Incoherent plot line? Check. Long stretches of nothingness while bikers ride the open road while a rock song plays? Check. Ludicrous dialogue? Check. Gratuitous macho posturing? Check. Complete absence of character development? Check.
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  • November 13, 2008
    Clunky "homage" to biker movies and Tarantino-style filmmaking.

    It fails on both levels.
  • October 27, 2009
    Hell Ride was like taking vomit from a group of people,mixing it together and then sticking it in the oven.
  • October 25, 2009
    I just wasnt into watching movies this day and I will have to give it another try sometime.
  • October 22, 2009
    How can you shit all over tarantino's filmography having plenty of asses and tits and sexy girls? ask bishop...
  • October 16, 2009
    When Tarantino produces something, how can it be anything less that awesome??? It can't! It's awesome!
  • October 16, 2009
    This is supposed to be a movie? This was aweful! They take down the 666 gang in like 5 secs? What a stupid movie.

Critic Reviews


August 8, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

As the film's triple-threat writer/director/star, Bishop isn't noticeably talented. full review

August 8, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The movie was executive produced by Quentin Tarantino. Shame on him. He intends it no doubt as another homage to grindhouse pictures, but I've seen a lot of them, and they were nowhere near this bad. ... full review

August 7, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press

Too-aptly named, Hell Ride packages so many hipster clichés that it never picks up speed and is no fun. full review

August 3, 2008
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

The second wave of fawning Tarantino imitators commences with Hell Ride, a wannabe badass biker flick that plays like a Kill Bill-Death Proof hybrid minus the genre-deconstruction angle. full review

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