The latest, trashy Knock-off of Tarantino's brilliant Pulp Fiction, is this sorry excuse for a film that has many stories, each lacking depth, coherence and quality. The first story is about three junkies, one is played by Paul Walker who gives the worst performance of his career, with an unintentionally hilarious character who talks a loud of nonsense and possesses and indecipherable accent, these druggies do nothing but yell at each other and come up with a half assed plan to rob their own drug dealer who has the goods, one of the druggies wears a clown mask because he forgot his ski mask and it's never thought through as the scene play's out like an amateur's first night out, and it's pathetic.The second story follows Matt Dillion as a recently married douche, who has just been duped by a stranger on the drive to his honeymoon, he stumbles into the pawn shop nearby owned by Alton (Vincent D'Onorfrio) who agrees to a quick deal involving a "look after this ring" till I pay you back type of deal; however Dillion spot's his first wife's ring there, she went missing 6 years ago, so he decides to ask him questions, the answers lead him to leave his new wife stranded and pursue his first wife who could be dead, or in the Caribbean for all he knows, his character is an assh**e, which is proved by the way he leaves his wife by the pawn shop.His story leads him to Elijah Wood's house where he is found jerking off watching his own porno's, now there's a terrible secret and it's cruel and very sexist, where women are locked in cages as sought of sex slaves, this is unacceptable and what's worse is what happens to Dillion at the end of this sequence, sure he was a jerk but he was just trying to help his wife who was found in one of the cages, a major plot hole is also noticeable where you hear screams from Elijah Wood's character who allegedly gets brutally killed by Dillon, and yet he is seen later on in the picture feeling fine. The writers have made this thing void of sense.The final story is about Brendan Fraser who play's an Elvis Impersonator and he look nothing like Elvis, the hair is completely wrong and his mannerisms are all of with the exception of one song he does towards the end of the picture, but all in all his story is pointless much like the other two and is just as ridiculous and awful as the other two. The film end's with nothing worth remembering with a terribly conceived plot twist involving a midget, I mean come on, are they out of inventive ideas or what. Hustler's is terribly written, laughably acted and horrible within its storytelling, it's just an awful piece of unoriginal garbage.

What a strange bird of a a film. It's a mix of John Waters, Quentin Tarantino and all the other cult icon film makers you should love, though too many hates. This is another take on intersecting stories, and it's cartoonish as well as filled with sick twisted tales around a pawn shop.This is one of those films which probably is impossible to understand, and if you want a plot in you're movies, there's no point in getting disappointed by this. Maybe this is about America in it's strangest ways, it'll sure be impossible to find everyone meaning the same about it.If you, on the other hand is like me, watching everything you can come over of different kind of movies; and enjoys films which not necessarily is like all the others you've seen, then this is for you.A film about Southern hobo white trash, all with troubles of their own, having to pawn stuff. Everything rotates around a Louisiana pawn shop, with a ring as a McGuffin. The story is too strange to explain, but I thoroughly enjoyed the ride more and more. Full of great actors acting out great scenes, which are all great by themselves.I found no sense in the film, but great enjoyment with techniques, photography, style... It simply is a film with scenes difficult to forget, still so strange that you probably have to watch it again just to remember them.i bet this will be a cult movie. Director Wayne Kramer has proved himself as a great director for many films now, and this is rated his worst so far. It isn't. It's just very different. Amazing... Grace... God Bless America - Long live the King!

I never heard of this movie before. I don't remember ever seeing it advertised. I don't even know if it ran in U.S. Theaters. I was looking through movies on Demand and happened upon it. The title intrigued me. The plot sounded interesting and then I saw that Vincent D'Onofrio and Paul Walker were in it...I was hooked. I'm so glad I found this movie. I've watched it twice so far.It's an anthology movie, which is one of my favorite types of movies. Each of the three stories originate from General Lee's Pawn Shop. It's here where we're treated to the characters of Alton and his friend, Johnson. The conversations these two have are pretty damned funny. The pawn shop is a central spot in the movie as the movie begins and ends here and each story begins in the shop. The first story, 'Shotgun' is my favorite story. It centers around three men... Raw Dog (Paul Walker), Randy (Kevin Rankin) and Vernon (Lukas Haas) and there half baked plot to rob meth from meth maker and dealer Stanley (an unrecognizable Norman Reedus). This story had me laughing out lout a whole lot. The conversations between Raw Dog and Randy are funny. Of course, things start going wrong from the very beginning and have an explosive ending. I don't want to give too much story away, but trust me, the whole "clown mask" thing had me falling off my chair. The scene with The Man was a bit odd, but what the heck, the whole thing is odd. The second story, 'The Ring' is a much darker tale. A man, Richard (Matt Dillon), stops at the pawn shop to pawn his new bride's ring because something was wrong with his account. While there, he sees the ring he had made for his first wife, who had mysteriously disappeared six years earlier. He sends his new bride away, buys Alton's car for sale and goes on a quest to find out what happened to his wife. Oh, yeah, he sorta loses his mind. What he discovers involves a man named Johnny Shaw (Elijah Wood) and some disturbing goings on. I liked how this story ended. The final story, 'The Medallion' involves a man who performs a tribute to "The King"...Elvis Presley. Ricky (a nearly unrecognizable Brenden Fraser) is a sad sack of a guy. He wants to be Elvis, but he's doing free shows, which aren't very good. His girlfriend leaves him and he ends up at the pawn shop. He coasted in on fumes and pawns his gold medallion that actually belonged to Elvis. The town is weird and there's a strange scene involving the two barber shops. Ricky gets a chance to make a deal for success. All it will cost is his soul. This final story strangely brings all the stories together and explains a few things. Everything comes around full circle at the end, which takes place, of course, in the pawn shop. The stories, characters and acting are all really good. It's like taking a crazy roller coaster ride. I have already recommended this movie to many of my friends. I liked it that much. I also think it has excellent potential to become a cult favorite/classic. The dialog is so good and very quote worthy. If you ever get a chance to watch this little gem, I recommend you do so. It's worth it.

There are many people who are disgusted with this film and for good reason, but that can be said of the Tarantino films that it rips off as well. That said, if you are a film buff who can find humor in strange things, you (or I at least) can enjoy a film like this.At least one star of this review is earned for the scene of Elijah Wood masturbating to a video of himself. Combined with his classic association with the LOTR films makes the whole situation hilarious. There's also Matt Dilllon's role as the determined hero trying to rescue his kidnapped wife who callously and cruelly abandons his newlywed wife as if she deserves contempt for the situation. When he goes to beat up the kid in the diner it begs the question: Wouldn't police have been called and an APB put out? In a small town such as that, they'd have rounded him up in a moment. Tons of plot holes abound to marvel at.While others are disgusted by the Hollywood leftist politics of the film, I find it funny in a way how they are not aware of their own bigotries. While they bash southerners as racist, note that there is only one significant token African American role in the film who plays a wisecracking guy in the background. This is a perfect example of limousine liberalism. They ruthlessly portray southerners as rednecks but when have they EVER taken on the typical Democrat welfare mother? I laughed my head off that while the characters of the film reflect the producer's own feelings of why they can't understand why racist southerners hate Jews and Blacks, they themselves can't seem to figure out why they hate working class whites yet leftists prefer to live amongst, and make movies about, working class whites. At least in the 70's, there were sitcoms such as "Good Times" that they even acknowledged the issues that they sweep under the rug today.The closest film I've seen to Hollywood taking a hard look at themselves was S.O.B. and they couldn't handle even THAT much criticism.Despite, or because, of the plot holes, ripoffs, and cheesy roles it was possible to enjoy the comedic timing and performances of the actors. Imagine Anthony Hopkins working at your local dinner theater. Something other reviewers missed: The film ripped off the style of Creepshow.