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This movie has good performances and one liners from Quentin but the movie is all over the place. I watched it four times and still had to think why it was shot like a spliced hour and a half preview trailer.

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Posted sep 6, 2008 6:46 pm pt

• [+] Film Threat
  
  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.

  by Mark Bell | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  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.

  by Linda Stasi | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  50
  Lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.

  by Justin Lowe | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  50
  The film has energy but isn't well paced. Nothing about it quite gels.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  50
  It's a self-amused, self-conscious, seriously limp throwback to motorcycle westerns of the 1970s.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  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.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  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."

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  30
  All this sounds like a surefire recipe for knowing, trashy fun, but something got burnt in the oven.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  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.

  by Mark Olsen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  25
  A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  25
  A witless reprise of '60s and '70s biker movies.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  25
  A pile of junk.

  by Ruthe Stein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  20
  The narrative is murky and ludicrous, the action violent and nihilistic, the contemporary western ethos painfully pretentious.

  by Andrea Gronvall | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  20
  The story is a shambles, incoherent throughout, veined with tirelessly wearying flashbacks, hallucinations, and just plain old lousy storytelling.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »