Biker Boyz 2003

Critics score:
23 / 100

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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's too long and self-consciously progressive to be entertaining, but it's too well-intentioned to be dismissed altogether. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: There's a good story in here somewhere, but it's been dumbed down for Biker Boyz. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Biker Boyz is just a silly film. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: As films go, it's as bad as an Elvis movie some of the time and better than an Elvis movie, but not by much, the rest of the time. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: With its choppy pacing and tentative acting, the movie often feels like a montage of film clips hastily pasted together to tell a story. Read more

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Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though the bikes are fast, the drama idles, with corny characters taking themselves more seriously than heads of state negotiating arms treaties. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A blatant re-spin of The Fast and the Furious that also happens to be a far better movie. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Even if you don't know much about motorcycles going in, by the end of Biker Boyz, the words 'manifold exhaust' may suddenly seem clear to you. Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: Like most of the Westerns it was patterned after, Boyz is disposable entertainment. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: After Dancing in September, his droll examination of race and representation in Hollywood, Bythewood now hawks contrived escapism in lieu of provoking thought. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Biker Boyz is the kind of movie Howard Hawks would have made if he'd lived long enough to feel the heat of hip-hop's impact on the culture at large. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Biker Boyz has an idea, but not an approach. Read more

Jeff Stark, Salon.com: Biker Boyz is about fast motorcycles and the tough dudes -- and even tougher chicks -- who soup them up in illegal street races. Unfortunately, it's about more than that. Read more

C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle: It takes some work to make 100-mph motorcycle races boring, but they've managed to pull it off here. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The training-wheels version of The Fast And The Furious. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Biker Boyz is like a mega-powered motorcycle with nowhere to go. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Timid about pushing the action pic envelope and an uncertain of tone, Biker Boyz never really busts out of second gear. Read more

Nat Johnson, Village Voice: When the filmmakers aren't busy accommodating cameo models and comedians, they seem to be dozing off at the handlebars. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The perfect testosterone-fueled, flash-edited, music-driven joy ride. Read more