This crime drama's look at a fictional bike club is too soft-edged for its own good.
It is the 1960s in the American Midwest. Kathy is at a rough bar at the invitation of a friend. Despite her apprehension, she meets and falls for the charismatic Benny , a member of the Vandals motorcycle club and close friend of club founder and leader Johnny . The story tracks Kathy, Benny and the club as it grows and changes with the times.
The Bikeriders has the makings of a project the acclaimed Hollywood director of crime sagas Killers Of The Flower Moon , The Irishman and Goodfellas would love – a period setting, morally compromised main characters and a uniquely American historical context. American writer-director Jeff Nichols has a filmography that follows a path similar to Scorsese’s. In critically acclaimed works, such as the psychological thriller Take Shelter and coming-of-age drama Mud , misfits with outsized dreams come under scrutiny.
Austin’s impulsive, suicidally wilful Benny possesses the most authentic manifestation of the rebel ethos, a trait that attracts less fulfilled persons like Johnny and Kathy. He is the real thing that makes pretenders out of everyone else.
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