Hobo With A Shotgun is No Planet Terror

Based on a fake trailer during the GrindHouse films, Hobo With A Shotgun looked to be a fun addition to the grindhouse genre. And it would have been, if it didn't suffer from poor pacing and a lack of laugh inducing over the top gore. You get a lot of Hobo action but not nearly enough shotgun. The apocalyptic city that the movie is set in "Fuck Town" is populated by horrible Canadian actors who are best known for their walk on roles on small Canadian television series. The main villain in the film used to be on the terrible LEX series and is just as bad in Hobo With A Shotgun as he was on LEX. If you were a fan of Quentin Tarantino's GrindHouse movies you will not find what you are looking for in Hobo With A Shotgun. Instead rent Piranha 3D, it is more of what you are hoping to see.

Battle: Los Angeles Review | If You Liked Black Hawk Down and Independence Day You Will Love This Movie

After watching Battle: Los Angeles you may realize that you've already seen this movie. This films borrows heavily from similar movies like Independence Day and Black Hawk Down, but it does so in an insulting way. No one is saying that Independence Day was some sort of master piece, but most people can agree they enjoyed it. And if you were expecting a sense of destruction on an immense scale then the trail fooled you just like so many others out there. While watching the movie you get the impression that nothing is going on outside of the small battles the main characters are involved in. Despite the fact that within Battle:Los Angeles all of SoCal is being torn apart by aliens who look like a suspicious mix of Gears of War and Independence Day alien bad guys.

Do not be fooled by this movie, it's not Black Hawk Down with aliens although, its creators probably wish it were.