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Hell Ride
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25 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
  3. Negative: 13 out of 19
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  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Mark Bell
    80
    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.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    63
    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.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Justin Lowe
    50
    Lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    It's a self-amused, self-conscious, seriously limp throwback to motorcycle westerns of the 1970s.
  5. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    The film has energy but isn't well paced. Nothing about it quite gels.
  6. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    42
    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.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    38
    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."
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    30
    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.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    30
    All this sounds like a surefire recipe for knowing, trashy fun, but something got burnt in the oven.
  10. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    25
    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.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    25
    A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in.
  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    25
    A pile of junk.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    25
    A witless reprise of '60s and '70s biker movies.
  14. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    The story is a shambles, incoherent throughout, veined with tirelessly wearying flashbacks, hallucinations, and just plain old lousy storytelling.
  15. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    20
    The narrative is murky and ludicrous, the action violent and nihilistic, the contemporary western ethos painfully pretentious.
  16. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    16
    Terrible in a terrible way: It's pretentious, incomprehensible and just numbingly dull.
  17. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    10
    Bishop's jumbled, wholly unexciting throwback has very little on its mind beyond mythologizing its maker as a bad-ass biker named Pistolero.
  18. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Rachel Saltz
    10
    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.
  19. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    0
    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.
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4.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. JoshF
    1
    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!… Full Review »
  2. AB.
    10
    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.… Full Review »
  3. KamachoMcSagget
    1
    I got this by mistake, intending to buy Deathproof. I couldn't exactly remember the names of the two Grindhouse movies but I thought this was one of them, and it is not. What I got was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I can only give you the jist of it because there's barely any plot to speak of. Everyone's after this box....... and that's about all I can make out of it. On the cover it says "Quentin Tarantino presents" but he was the executive producer. For those who do not know what a producer is, it is someone who is involved with the movie, but not directly. With that being said, I imagine the movie's intended effect is to create an anti-Tarantino movie by doing the opposite of what he advized, and that's how I imagine how his name was put on it. Why would the writer/director/producer/star do such a thing? I have no clue, but gee-wiz, did he succeed. It has the violence and profanity, but it lacks suprises and memorable dialoge. In fact, the dialoge is so grathing in this film that it's like someone rubs your brain with sand paper every time someone talks. Also, there is wayyyy too much softcore porn in this movie; probably a third of it is only breasts. If I wanted to look at porn, then I'd look at porn, and I wouldn't spend an hour and a half doing it. Also, most of the actresses in this movie are so bad that they can make Megan Fox look like Uma Thurman by comparison. Now there are a few redeaming factors in this movie. A few of the lines are pretty good and there is a cameo by David Caribbean. Is that enough to save this movie? Yes, it saves it an entire point, which isn't much. I wish I can say more but the film was so unmemorable that I really can't, and I just finished watching it. The moral of the story is to do your research, because if you don't then YOU END UP WATCHING CRAP LIKE THIS!!… Full Review »
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