Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (2012– )

Stars:

Callan Mulvey, Matt Nable, Susie Porter

1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Callan Mulvey	...	Anthony 'Snoddy' Spencer (6 episodes, 2012)
Matt Nable	...	Jock Ross (6 episodes, 2012)
Susie Porter	...	Vanessa Ross (6 episodes, 2012)
Maeve Dermody	...	Lee (6 episodes, 2012)
Anthony Hayes	...	Caesar Cambell (6 episodes, 2012)
Richard Cawthorne	...	Foggy (6 episodes, 2012)
Luke Ford	...	Snow (6 episodes, 2012)
Richard Sutherland	...	Davo (6 episodes, 2012)
Damian Walshe-Howling	...	Chopper (6 episodes, 2012)
Luke Hemsworth	...	Shadow (6 episodes, 2012)
Fletcher Humphrys	...	Bull (5 episodes, 2012)
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor	...	Leroy (5 episodes, 2012)
Aaron Fa'aoso	...	Roo (5 episodes, 2012)
Nathaniel Dean	...	Kraut (5 episodes, 2012)
Zach Zanetich	...	Joel (5 episodes, 2012)
Sam Parsonson	...	Junior (4 episodes, 2012)
Todd Lasance	...	Kiddo (4 episodes, 2012)
Manu Bennett	...	Sunshine (4 episodes, 2012)
Pier Carthew	...	Dog (3 episodes, 2012)
Trent Baines	...	Sparra (3 episodes, 2012)
Louise Crawford	...	Joanne Campbell (3 episodes, 2012)
Brooke Ryan	...	Christine Campbell (3 episodes, 2012)
Lauren Hardacre	...	Bull's Daughter (3 episodes, 2012)
Emily Hardacre	...	Bull's Daughter (3 episodes, 2012)
Peter Flaherty	...	Lard (3 episodes, 2012)

Storyline

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 May 2012 (Australia)

Filming Locations:

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Screentime Pty. Ltd.

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

User Reviews

Mostly terrible

I watched two whole episodes just to make sure. This really is mostly terrible, best illustrated by one unfortunate piece of casting.

Colin 'Caesar' Campbell was a big man, tall, broad shoulders, an imposing, perhaps threatening presence. He is portrayed here by Anthony Hayes, who is about as imposing as a teddy bear. He has narrow shoulders, a pot belly, he really isn't up to the job. He's not alone in that but, more than any other cast member, illustrates how this show falls so far short of anything remotely resembling a true portrayal of an outlaw motorcycle club.

It's quite clueless. These rough, tough bikies, who mostly look like a bunch of nice middle-class youngsters after a biggish weekend, ride around on shiny new Harleys, straight off the shop floor in 2011. So there you go, how many telephone calls would it have taken to line up some authentic old motorcycles? One, if you rang the right place, it wouldn't be that hard.

There are whole sequences where nothing happens, nothing is learned about the characters, the narrative grinds to a halt. There is the occasional brief flicker of a scene that isn't all that bad, usually featuring Callan Mulvey and Matt Nable , the two leads.

Okay, so we've got some pedestrian direction and photography, a lousy script, woeful casting, fair-to-middling acting, some reasonable art direction and set direction, poor attention to relevant detail and an overall look and feel of the whole project being rushed along too quickly. So it's pretty much your standard Australian teev series.

It's quite extraordinary in its own way. A show about bikies that is boring and mundane.