Hell Ride
Dimension Films | Release Date: August 8, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
13
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80
Film ThreatMark Bell
The motorcycle film genre is one that has all but been forgotten, but if any film could start the resurrection of this cinema genre's corpse, it's Larry Bishop's Hell Ride. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda Stasi
If you enjoy foulmouth dialogue mixed with sex, violence, bikes, badass bikers, boobs, babes, booze, brawling, broken noses and broken promises - then the Quentin Tarantino-produced Hell Ride should make you one happy guy. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin Lowe
Lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The film has energy but isn't well paced. Nothing about it quite gels. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
It's a self-amused, self-conscious, seriously limp throwback to motorcycle westerns of the 1970s. Read full review
42
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
I managed to get through the biker extravaganza Hell Ride, a narcissistic piece of soft-core porn and macho camp, by mashing it together in my mind with the equally woeful, family-friendly biker comedy "Wild Hogs." After all, both are full of hellions gone to seed. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Larry Bishop's painfully self-conscious homage to biker films of yesteryear is a carefully crafted pastiche that doesn't miss a wild-deadly-angels-devils-sadists-revenge cliché and can't hold a candle to the down-and-dirty likes of "The Glory Stompers." Read full review
30
VarietyDennis Harvey
All this sounds like a surefire recipe for knowing, trashy fun, but something got burnt in the oven. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
The film gets the scummy patina right, all phony-Leone dusty trails, but while everybody on screen looks to be enjoying themselves, it is no fun to watch. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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. "Hell's Angels on Wheels," for example: pretty good. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
A witless reprise of '60s and '70s biker movies. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
A pile of junk. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The narrative is murky and ludicrous, the action violent and nihilistic, the contemporary western ethos painfully pretentious. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The story is a shambles, incoherent throughout, veined with tirelessly wearying flashbacks, hallucinations, and just plain old lousy storytelling. Read full review
16
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Terrible in a terrible way: It's pretentious, incomprehensible and just numbingly dull. Read full review
10
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
Bishop's jumbled, wholly unexciting throwback has very little on its mind beyond mythologizing its maker as a bad-ass biker named Pistolero. Read full review
10
The New York TimesRachel Saltz
It's depressingly self-conscious and turgid, and a cast that includes Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour can't drag Hell Ride out of the mire. Read full review
0
Washington PostJohn Anderson
After all the bloated lines are delivered, and dozens of women are debased, and Bishop has attitudinized the story line into incomprehensibility, audience members will be asking themselves how they got on this Hell Ride and what they did to deserve it. Read full review
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