Murdercycle

Murdercycle (1999) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a meteor that crashes to planet Earth and infects a motorcycle rider and his bike. The man and his motorcycle are taken control of by the alien presence and sent on a mission to begin a killing spree until it can invade a military base and recover an alien artifact

This movie is directed by Thomas L. Callaway (Dead Man Rising) and stars Charles Wesley (Run the Race), Robert Donavan (Attack of the Unknown), William Vogt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), David A. R. White (God's Not Dead) and Stephen O'Mahoney (NYPD Blues).

The comet opening and transformation scene reminded me of the beginning of the Wraith...but that was the only part of this that was as good as that movie. The writing, acting and dialogue was as bad as you'd expect. The action scenes were just okay. The kills could have been better. The gun shots sounded like paintball guns and the ending was cheesy.

Overall, this is as bad as the title. I would score this a 2/10 and recommend skipping it...unless you're in the mood for a bad movie, then this is for you.

Mind numbing nonsense about a possessed motorbike from outer space. 70 minutes of inane chatter and 20 minutes of low budget action. You've seen it all before; not even a good candidate for a $1 rental.

I forced myself to watch this movie because I recognized an actor's name, who was a personal friend, in the opening credits. Otherwise I would have turned it off after about 40 seconds. Words can not describe the strength it took to watch it all the way through. I actually hoped at one point that his character would die, so I could stop watching...seriously! The best thing I could say about this movie was that I got a chance to read the critiques which are here on this site. Some of which are hilarious. They are correct about how bad it is. We could form a club, around who hates this movie more.

Murdercycle should come with a warning.. "Don't watch this movie with a loaded weapon in the room...you may just want to kill yourself." Same goes for swords ...you may want to fall on one! It's that bad. And I don't mean...."it's so bad,it's good"...I mean it's...."what the hell was that?!".. bad.

True this movie was nothing spectacular. The special effects weren't really all that special. The acting wasn't Oscar worthy. The script was a little..well it was just a little... Yes we could all tell the "murdercycle" was covered with rubber and such...but come on...This movie wasn't too, too bad. I don't normally like sci-fi movies. I am more into HORROR. I love (for whatever reason) movies by Full Moon. This one was from one of their own spin off productions company's: ActionExtreme. This movie had an original idea (not the alien part), that really tried to develop into something. Though there was a very slow part, it did pick up towards the end, and finished with an "there could be a sequel" ending. Watch with an open mind. It is a B-movie, it was filmed on an old studio lot and that is very obvious. The whole thing probably didn't cost over a couple hundred thousand to make..Take that into consideration, and just enjoy the movie.

Everything in this movie is bad. The title is hilariously bad. The plot is a 1950s cheap sci-fi reject. The acting is uniformly horrendous. I mean, you get the feeling that these actors were told to just be themselves, and they couldn't get THAT right. Not one word is pronounced in a genuine-sounding form. The dialogue is mind-numbing. The humor is beyond idiotic. At best some of the conspiracy references were mildly amusing, although highly unoriginal in a post-"X Files" era. The best humor is unintentional, and even that is not enough. The cinematography was lame, with people crowded into one small space for some shots, shaky camerawork in other shots, lone people captured in the side rather than the center in what were supposed to be key shots, and an overall cheap-looking quality of film that reminds one more of a Cinemax soft-core porno. The special effects were outdated by 20 years, with the best effect being a blatant rip off of both "Terminator" and "Predator". I usually don't mind imitations of good things from other movies, but this was too much. There was slow-motion overkill, particularly whenever the 'murdercycle' showed up. The editing was bad. The score was severely unexciting and unatmospheric. The characters were heavily boring. And you have to wonder why it takes something as powerful as the 'murdercycle' to break into where it needed to break in to retrieve what it was looking for, particular given that it can materialize anywhere it wants to (talk about extraterrestrial intelligence). The costumes were boring. The set design was lifeless. And there's all sorts of things that don't make sense, like one guy getting shot in the back by a cheap laser beam from the 'murdercycle', which causes the GROUND beneath him to explode, making him merely flip around without a scratch, in typical action movie fashion. And the worst part of all is that everyone involved in the film is taking it seriously.

One could say that this would be the movie that most of the cast and crew would remove from their resume later on in their career. Unfortunately, none of the people involved in this flick look like they have a career ahead of them.