The Bikeriders Review – A Poetic Ecstasy For Bikeriders

Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders finally comes to the big screen almost a year after its Telluride premiere. It was known that the story was inspired by true events, but I never imagined it to be so real and mature. It’s brutally honest in depicting the characters and the events and does not shy away from spitting out facts, even though some of those characters have to look creepy for that. That’s the real fun, you know. You can’t really change things with an intense and offbeat drama like this. It would have been a different case with a biopic of a musician/singer/actor/politician/famous celebrity, but here, they were open and straightforward about whom we were bringing to the screen. Yes, not everyone knows about the outlaw gang (especially in India), so it would be difficult to catch up with them, but it’s not impossible.

The film is mainly for bikers, who love the two-wheeler thing more than anything in the world, but I must say, it has enough drama for regular moviegoers too.The BikeridersSet between 1965 and 1973, the film follows the rise of the Vandals MC, a Chicago outlaw motorcycle club. Kathy (Jodie Comer) begins telling her story in a bit of a chicky accent that we find a little childish in the beginning, but after a while, it starts feeling mature, adorable, and unique. Kathy sees a good-looking man in the club, and the next thing we know, she is married to him. That man is none other than Benny (Austin Butler). The club is owned and ruled by Johnny (Tom Hardy), who is also the leader of the Vandals gang. The club evolves over the course of a decade from a surrogate family for local outcasts into a violent organized crime syndicate, threatening the original founder’s unique vision and way of life. The newbies actually take over the club, and its original identity vanishes in the air. What happens to Johnny and Benny? Find out in the film.