The new movie "The Bikeriders" will surprise many fans who will expect a standard movie drama about men in the late 1960's and 70s who chose a life of crime, riding bikes, drinking, and drugs, during the era of the Vietnam War. Instead, this movie tries to tell the story like it's an interview/documentary with the main interviewee, Kathy, played by Jodie Comer, talking to a reporter about her life as the wife of a motorcycle gang member, Benny, played by Austin Butler. This entire story is told from Benny's perspective and his life of meeting and then marrying his wife.
The problem with this unusual method of screenwriting telling is that the story becomes less chronological and more a series of vignettes, that can get old rather quickly. The idea of this kind of life is always the same, "when you live a life of violence, your time is always coming". What goes around comes around with people like this, who spend their entire lives looking over their shoulder, or getting arrested by the police.
This movie stars a number of well-known famous actors, including Norman Reedus, Michael Shannon,
Tom Hardy and Damon Herriman. The acting is overall very good, with a story that meanders to different times with some flashbacks and at times moves too slowly. Unfortunately, other than telling the story like an interview/documentary there is nothing new here, nothing that all moviegoers have seen before.
The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this movie are an average 82% with my rating 70% and a very marginal recommendation, only for some of the acting.
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