Hellride movie poster
Ugh. Roger Ebert thought this movie was shit and I am inclined to agree … it’s too bad, since in some way, the biker western genre is fascinating to me, if only because I have had so little exposure to this piece of Americana. The movie is written and directed by Larry Bishop, who was making biker movies since the 1960s. The reason that I bought the movie (other than the fact that it was, at 7 RMB, quite affordable) is that it had some big names attached to it: Quentin Tarantino executive produced it, and it has Dennis Hopper and David Carradine in it. The guy who plays Comanche — Eric Balfour – is perhaps more well-known to people as Milo from 24 (who got shot in the head trying to protect Nadia). Oh yeah, and there’s the great Vinnie Jones, who is extremely under-utilized in this movie.
The dialogue is meant to be hokey and everything is completely sexualized, but there was one good line from the movie. When David Carradine is being questioned about his role in a murder from 1976 as well as one that just happened, he says “I don’t remember that well, but then again I ain’t Marcel Proust.” Awesome. I don’t mind if Larry Bishop, no doubt in his 60s, wants to search for lost time … I just don’t know if he ought to do it at the expense of those, who like me, still have time to spare and want to make better use of it.
a shameful waste of madhouse time 