Pros: the scenery - their hangout spot is nice, bits of 70s Sydney, motorbikes (of all colours, I will count it as a good thing, many people do like skittles), all the gangsters wore helmets, mostly full faced, so it's educational and promotes road safety, most of the bikes had windscreens, again, the gangsters were being very smart and wanted to be comfortable and aerodynamic - science people! Even the plot is actually OK, for what it is.
Cons: the acting is atrocious. Mainly the main character. Actually, pretty much everybody else is more believable than "Stone" - as far as his dialogues go. He just doesn't look real, when talking to people. There's probably 4-5 people in this movie, who did kind of OK in that regard.
A bunch of attributes were randomly inserted into the dialogues, just to make Stone look more macho - his partner compliments him on being well.."yeah, why are you wasting your time with these bikers, Mr. BIG" - paraphrasing, but not really. This would have been cute if that was the only time she was made to develop the character just by saying random things. She also calls his superior (it's just her on the phone, you can't see or hear his boss in the scene, or in the movie) and tells him that Stone is a very good tennis player and asks whether he was assigned to this job, because he's got a university degree...instead of showing him play tennis for 5 seconds and making him look good, or having an intelligent discussion with someone at some point during the movie, to show he's "like smart and stuff", they will simply tell you "so this character went to Uni, he's like really big where it counts and probably should be a professional tennis player, but he chooses to be a cop, because he's a good guy".
Stone looks like he could be tough, but he rather behaves like your friendly real estate agent.
He's jovial, simple, caring..he is shown as tough a few times though - he's a good rider, he can fight and he doesn't mind pulling a gun, even at his comrades, because what's right is right. But his demeanor is otherwise very calm, cheery and very naive (to the very, very end...).
I guess this is a cult movie, because there weren't many other movies like that at that time - especially set and filmed in Australia. If you make the only biking action movie in a decade and it's filmed in Sydney, people will come and see it and if you're young, or there's just nothing else to see, it leaves an impression on you. Fair enough.
Watching this movie almost 5 decades later and for the very first time, it just doesn't hold well enough compared to many amazing films from the 70s.
Probably the biggest issue of this film is the low budget. It looks like they just couldn't pay a proper actor to play the part, or at least write the dialogues in a way, this guy could make them his own. They also couldn't film some scenes to help the plot. This could have made it into a good movie.
With that being said, if you like watching some guys sitting, drinking, doing drugs, fighting, riding and firing a few shots, plus some nudity - if that's all you want from a movie, you'll probably love this one and give it a 10/10, because that's pretty much it.
Cons: the acting is atrocious. Mainly the main character. Actually, pretty much everybody else is more believable than "Stone" - as far as his dialogues go. He just doesn't look real, when talking to people. There's probably 4-5 people in this movie, who did kind of OK in that regard.
A bunch of attributes were randomly inserted into the dialogues, just to make Stone look more macho - his partner compliments him on being well.."yeah, why are you wasting your time with these bikers, Mr. BIG" - paraphrasing, but not really. This would have been cute if that was the only time she was made to develop the character just by saying random things. She also calls his superior (it's just her on the phone, you can't see or hear his boss in the scene, or in the movie) and tells him that Stone is a very good tennis player and asks whether he was assigned to this job, because he's got a university degree...instead of showing him play tennis for 5 seconds and making him look good, or having an intelligent discussion with someone at some point during the movie, to show he's "like smart and stuff", they will simply tell you "so this character went to Uni, he's like really big where it counts and probably should be a professional tennis player, but he chooses to be a cop, because he's a good guy".
Stone looks like he could be tough, but he rather behaves like your friendly real estate agent.
He's jovial, simple, caring..he is shown as tough a few times though - he's a good rider, he can fight and he doesn't mind pulling a gun, even at his comrades, because what's right is right. But his demeanor is otherwise very calm, cheery and very naive (to the very, very end...).
I guess this is a cult movie, because there weren't many other movies like that at that time - especially set and filmed in Australia. If you make the only biking action movie in a decade and it's filmed in Sydney, people will come and see it and if you're young, or there's just nothing else to see, it leaves an impression on you. Fair enough.
Watching this movie almost 5 decades later and for the very first time, it just doesn't hold well enough compared to many amazing films from the 70s.
Probably the biggest issue of this film is the low budget. It looks like they just couldn't pay a proper actor to play the part, or at least write the dialogues in a way, this guy could make them his own. They also couldn't film some scenes to help the plot. This could have made it into a good movie.
With that being said, if you like watching some guys sitting, drinking, doing drugs, fighting, riding and firing a few shots, plus some nudity - if that's all you want from a movie, you'll probably love this one and give it a 10/10, because that's pretty much it.