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Hell Ride
EMAILPRINTThird Rail Releasing (The Weinstein Company)

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
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Based on 9 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Drama | Romance | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Larry Bishop
Directed by: Larry Bishop
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 8, 2008
DVD: October 28, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong violence, sexual content including graphic nudity and dialogue, language and drug use
Starring Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine, Eric Balfour, Julia Jones, and Michael Beach
Hell Ride is raucous throwback to the days of the Sergio Leone spaghetti western, with a heaping helping of testosterone-fueled chopper action thrown into the mix. Writer/director Larry Bishop takes on a third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors. The Victors are a group of badass bikers who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent and the mysterious Comanche, Pistolero aims to take down the Deuce and Billy Wings, the menacing leaders of the 666ers. However, a mutiny looms on the horizon when Pistolero's commitment to profit is questioned by a few of his fellow Victors. An even larger story unravels when previously unknown information about Comanche resurrects ghosts from Pistolero's past. (The Weinstein Co)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Film Threat Mark 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 >New York Post Linda 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 >The Hollywood Reporter Justin Lowe
Lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The film has energy but isn't well paced. Nothing about it quite gels.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's a self-amused, self-conscious, seriously limp throwback to motorcycle westerns of the 1970s.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael 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 >TV Guide Maitland 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 >Variety Dennis Harvey
All this sounds like a surefire recipe for knowing, trashy fun, but something got burnt in the oven.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark 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 >Chicago Tribune Michael 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 >Chicago Sun-Times Roger 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 >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
A witless reprise of '60s and '70s biker movies.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The narrative is murky and ludicrous, the action violent and nihilistic, the contemporary western ethos painfully pretentious.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The story is a shambles, incoherent throughout, veined with tirelessly wearying flashbacks, hallucinations, and just plain old lousy storytelling.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Terrible in a terrible way: It's pretentious, incomprehensible and just numbingly dull.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Aaron 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 >The New York Times Rachel 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 >Washington Post John 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 >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay H. gave it a3:
More Tarantino produced rubbish, along the lines of the Grindhouse films. Cold, heartless, pointless.
Josh F gave it a1:
Absolutely abysmal. 1 rating only for some hot women, but even that is generous. QT should pay to have them remove his name from this waste of time, money and patience. WOW!
A B. gave it a10:
I saw this movie yesterday and loved it. It sets out to be a modern-day grindhouse flick, and succeeds. It promises fights, blood, boobs and booze, and delivers all of them - in abundance. This movie is a lot of fun, and most critics need to learn how to sit back and enjoy the ride.
