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Larry Bishop, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Cassandra Hepburn, David Grieco
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
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Id: 10940352
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)
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)
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)
Clunky "homage" to biker movies and Tarantino-style filmmaking.
It fails on both levels.
Very bad.
Very disappointing.
Just becuase it says produced by Quentin Tarantino doesn't mean it will be as good as his movies.
Could've been a kickass biker flick, but drowns under bizarre acting, pointless dialogue & vain desire for quirky Tarantino cool.
Not one of Tarantino's best but enjoyable enough. I didn't think Larry Bishop suited the title role of Pistolero, he came across more past-his-time-wanna-be-bad-ass.... poor casting there IMO. And (the usually bad-ass) Vinnie Jones' accent = WTF? Storyline was kinda hard to fol...( read more)
A vigorously polished turd but a turd is a turd, no matter how vigorously you polish it.
Hell Ride was like taking vomit from a group of people,mixing it together and then sticking it in the oven.
