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Derek Malcolm's rating
Biking hogwash
By
Derek Malcolm
12 Apr 2007
This is truly awful. It has Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H Macy as four suburban weekend warriors taking off their boring city suits and becoming bikers.
When they meet the Del Fuegos, real badass examples of the ilk, they are suitably nonplussed. But they somehow manage to defeat the pros when they try to terrorise a small country township.
The usual problem soon exhibits itself. No proper screenplay and far too much only fair to moderate slapstick.
Travolta, looking more and more like a man who's stopped trying, is particularly tiresome and Tim Allen increases the suspicion that he's a star largely by default.
Only Macy and Lawrence give us glimmers of what might have been. But it isn't nearly enough. Walt Becker is the director, and it looks as if he's making for the exit as fast as possible.
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Reader views (1)
Pretty averge fare with some chuckle moments but never anything which will have you falling from your seat. Tim Allen is lightweight and tired like a comedien who has been telling the same joke all his life, Martin Lawrence seems too out of place to release his talent, Will Macey's ridiculous character dosen't fit to his acting abilities with John Travolta's intoxicating spirit probably the only thing that saves this film from disaster. The story line and gags are fairly weak although a gay cop cameo from Jc McGinley livens things up for a while. All and all it's pretty harmless film and if your easily offended in movie theatres, this may be the movie for you.
- Neil Fenton, Sydney, Austrailia, 19/04/2007 08:03
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