Who payed the critics

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

So being the authority on bikers everywhere...here we go...I watched this a while back and felt a little let down and full of cynical prejudice like most of us super bikers feel when we see an adaptation of something we all want to portray but just don't quite get it.So there's a camera crew available 24/7 so no need for screaming profanities at Jesus when you actually break down!And the bikes are cool but nobody rides those anymore...well because??? They break down a lot! A lot man...they break down a lot.OK ...I want an old piece of iron too but I won't risk my life and those around me on it to prove a point.What is the real point here? That I can endure physical and emotional pain to the point of sheer exhaustion? Cool...if your a thirties something hipster...I guess? ...so I waited till I calmed down and watched it again.Like a car crash I slowed myself down and watched it again. The real effort to build a bike like this takes what most people will never learn or appreciate.To build the bike alone is understandably the hardest part but to risk it all and ride it that far will scare 99% of the masses back to the couch? Chase truck or not.We live in a place now where acting out like this is forbidden and looked down upon...thus all of the ghosts of the missing bikers from that era are now in the history books and the life of drug and alcohol consumption to the max are gone.The police and liberal governments took care of it so we can all sleep safely at night.Rehab is the way... So the good lies hidden for me in last few moments where I finally get it...maybe you will or won't but it's definitely worth a second look.I think Peter Fonda said it best...we blew it Billy

I'm a biker, been a biker for most of my 50 years. the bikes in the movie are cool, but the movie is terrible. I'm glad it was free on my flight. the narrator is WAY over the top describing, well, a ride...riding approx. 110 miles a day does not make you a bad a$$ biker. my advice, turn the sound off and enjoy the bikes , it will be a better experience. the review for this website requires a minimum of ten lines, actually a chore for this movie. I don't think the characters in the movie said ten lines worth. the narrator rambled on as if trying to write the next bon jovi song though. the best part of the movie was when they stopped to visit an old biker that started his own bike club back in the day.

This is a film for bikers about biking. It achieves something seemingly impossible: it captures a true taste of the true spirit of the two- wheeling 1% - the fraternity, the cowboy poet, the machine. As the four ride across America on hogs built on parts that no factory had a thought for; go with them.Best of all is the gravel and gravitas mixed with beautiful sonorous use of beat poetry, language that paints the ride better than any commentary from them or us ever could.Filled with vignettes and simplicity at only 68 minutes long it carries the weight with ease - a tribute and a fitting way to celebrate those who live on, and for, two-wheel dharma.