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Hell Ride

August 8, 2008

Rated: R Runtime: 83 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

In the 1960s, motorcycle gang movies were a whole genre. American International Pictures (Samuel Z. Arkoff, producer) made a slew of biker movies, starting with WILD ANGELS (1966) directed by Roger Corman. Larry Bishop (Son of Rat Packer Joey Bishop) was in three of these, THE SAVAGE SEVEN (1968), ANGELS UNCHAINED (1970), and CHROME AND HOT LEATHER (1971).

35+ years later, he’s written, directed, and stars in this homage to biker movies. Produced by Quentin Tarantino, this could be a third feature in GRINDHOUSE, after DEATHPROOF and PLANET TERROR.
HELL RIDE
Pistolero (Bishop) is the leader of The Victors biker gang. Back in 1976, his Old Lady (that is, like all the women in this movie, an improbably hot biker chick) was immolated by a rival gang, the 666ers.

Now, 30+ years later, a similar murder starts off a war between gangs, and a quest for revenge. He’s joined by The Gent (Michael Madsen), and Comanche (Eric Balfour), who was just a boy in 1976 and witnessed the events that set all this in motion.

The rival gang is led by Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). Biker movie honored veteran Dennis Hopper is along for the ride, and David Carradine makes an appearance.

These guys live in a biker universe, a high desert that could be something out of THE ROAD WARRIOR, only it seems to be set in our time, more or less. But it’s a very rarefied world; there’s no cities or even towns; there’s desert, and there’s occasional stand-alone buildings: Road houses, biker bars, strip clubs, bordellos.

There’s not even other cars on the roads. There are no cops (and apparently, no problems with leaving trails of bodies in your wake as you go on your revenge quest). There’s not even the scene where the bumbling idiots walk into the wrong bar and get the crap beat out of them, or bump into the biker’s bumper at an intersection and get the crap beat out of them, because there are no civilians in this movie, there’s only bikers, and biker chicks (played by a beautiful and exotic group, Cassandra Hepburn, Leonor Varela (Who guested in a STARGATE ATLANTIS), Laura Coyouette, Julia Jones, and others).

We get a lot of gunfights (and some more exotic weapons like crossbows) and some barroom fist fights. We get a lot of nudity in their visits to various strip clubs and bordellos.

It’s violent, with bikers riding around killing each other, for revenge or money or just because. It’s got the feel of a Sergio Leone-style western.

Some of the dialogue is pretty snappy and witty, particularly Michal Madsen’s.
HELL RIDE
One thing this movie isn’t about is a lot of stunts; there aren’t impossible gunfights at high speeds on motorcycles, there’s not MATRIX-style slowmotion with CGI additions. These bikers go places on their bikes, then they park, get off, and fight. They have too much respect for their motorcycles to fight on them, just as a gunslinger doesn’t want his horse hurt.

I’m giving this movie 4 stars, with a caveat: Either you like the idea of a recreation of 1960s biker movies, or you don’t. If you’re wrestling with whether to see this or SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2 this weekend, this probably isn’t the movie for you. But if you got the joke of GRINDHOUSE, this is a good time at the movies.

Popularity: 42% [?]

Posted by Mack Guffin | Filed Under 4 Stars, Action, David Carradine, Dennis Hopper, Eric Balfour, Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Theatrical 

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2 Responses to “Hell Ride”

  1. Mack Guffin on August 8th, 2008 5:39 am

    Here’s a Red-Band Trailer for HELLRIDE.

    Also, check out our retrospective of biker flicks.

    And our retrospective of Drive-In movie theaters.

  2. Mack Guffin on August 16th, 2008 9:06 am

    Well, HELL RIDE had a short ride indeed here in Atlanta theaters. I think it opened in three theaters last week, and this week it’s only at the Starlight Six Drive-In, in the 11:35 PM time slot after MIRRORS.

    Which is kind of a shame, I think if you watch it in a certain frame of mind, as a throwback to those biker and Grindhouse movies of the ’60s and early ’70s, it’s a fun movie.

    It comes out on DVD on October 28th.

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