Vladimir_Grozescu

I've come up with this when it comes to movies released in the month of January: they are all pretty much overstock from the previous year that the studio was too embarassed to release. Movies released just after christmas and during January are the equivalent of bottom-of-the-bin leftover holiday items in a store that nobody thought was good enough to be sold before Christmas, so they've been re-packaged as something cool and new, when in reality they're just more misleading re-hashes. That's what exactly what movies like Biker Boys, Kangaroo Jack, and Just Married are. But since I'm only reviewing Biker Boys, I'll start my review. Here it is: Do not see it. That's the kindest I can be with this one. Larry Fishbourne commented that Biker Boys was a modern day "western", only with bikes instead of horses, helmets instead of cowboy hats, and asphalt instead of whatever was the equivalent of what cowboys and their horses rode on. I'm here commenting that this is NOT an urban western. I don't even know what to call it, but I know it's not good. Bad acting, NO realism (we need at least SOME ground in reality here), and cheap effects.

0 out of 10

Sorry, but if you jut tell me a character's bad because just he's foreign, I'm not buying it.

XXX is the definitive example of fodder for the MTV crowd. It's loud, brainless, and brainwashingly stereotypical (I thought the "Russians are all bad" plot died out in the 80's). Why must some filmmakers peg certain ethnic groups or people from certain countries as "evil"? It's not right, but I guess they got away with it... for the millionth time. In U.S. TV shows and movies like this, you'd never see an American portrayed as the bad guy trying to bring the world to anarchy; but you will see Middle Easterners, Russians and Germans (just to name a few) portrayed as "bad" because that's only what U.S. audiences will accept as antagonists. They never want to suspect one of their own as movie villains. Note to filmmakers: Stop the stereotyping! If you stereotype so much it just makes it painfully clear that you have no villain with TRUE motives for his actions, so you just end up labeling him as being from a certain country because you think you can feed audiences anything. Anyway, the acting in XXX is just as bad as the stupid racial stereotypes. Vin Diesel is a dullard. And an UGLY one at that. What ANYONE finds attractive in him, I don't know, because he definitely is balding (look at his hairline. ha!), and sounds as if he's going hoarse. Balding, hoarse men do not make action heroes. I guess Stallone and all the TRUE action heroes are too old now, so desperate audiences'll accept anyone as a hero, including Mr. Diesel.

1 outta 10