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Biker Boyz
Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 27
  3. Negative: 13 out of 27
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    If you want old-school cool, you go to Laurence Fishburne.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    A blatant re-spin of ''The Fast and the Furious'' that also happens to be a far better movie.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    70
    It will all look pretty ridiculous to grown-ups, but to 13-year-old boys (and adults with well-tended inner versions thereof), Biker Boyz will be the perfect testosterone-fueled, flash-edited, music-driven joy ride.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    67
    For all the testosterone-driven soap opera, this entertainingly confused coming-of-age story is a seductive fantasy, a rare portrait of urban underworld machismo without the violence and the viciousness.
  5. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    63
    Proves two things irrefutably. First, Fishburne doesn't get enough work that tests his acting abilities… Second, Luke's breakout performance in "Fisher" was no fluke.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    All of this is intriguing material, but the movie doesn't do much with it.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    It's too long and self-consciously progressive to be entertaining, but it's too well-intentioned to be dismissed altogether.
  8. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    50
    The fun of Biker Boyz should be in the racing, and though director Reggie Rock Bythewood throws around a lot of techniques, nothing really ignites.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    50
    The bad news is that the racing scenes are repetitive and it takes some serious concentration to figure out which character belongs to what club.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    50
    Never really busts out of second gear.
  11. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    40
    Neither the riveting boy band documentary nor the riveted gay porn its title seems to suggest, Biker Boyz is instead a late-model knockoff of 2001’s outlaw auto racing epic The Fast and the Furious, reconfigured with a predominantly black cast and a whole lotta two-wheeled saké.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    Orlando Jones, buff and commanding, steals the film as Soul Train, a lawyer-biker, while Lisa Bonet, a sexy, enigmatic earth mother, is stranded in a movie that has no idea what to do with her.
  13. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    40
    There's no kick to its bag of tricks...It's a mild one among biker pics, a tricycle only pretending to be a Hog.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    40
    There's more than a little Oedipal melodrama tossed into the mix. But the movie rarely gets as sappy or as contrived as one keeps expecting.
  15. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    38
    This startlingly lame tale about a young upstart challenging a veteran leader of the pack doesn't update the genre, it simply recasts it.
  16. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Though it's only 90 minutes, the film drags, making these not-so-easy riders pretty tough to watch.
  17. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    38
    However you pronounce Bythewood -- I assume it's by-the-wood -- his work here is strictly by the numbers.
  18. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Jeff Stark
    30
    There's not enough fast and even less furious.
  19. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    30
    Could and should have been a giddy, tongue-in-cheek action-comedy romp. Instead, it's a meandering action-drama, in which nearly all of the abundant laughs are unintentional.
  20. Washington Post
    30
    Has the stink of man-musk all over it.
  21. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    30
    This motorcycle melodrama is so stupid that during the press screening my colleagues' laughter threatened to drown out the roar of the engines.
  22. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    25
    Guy flicks can be just as galling as the chick variety. Here's Exhibit A in how to lose an audience in ten minutes.
  23. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Kevin M. Williams
    25
    Unintentional comedy that will bore even the 15-year-olds at which it is undoubtedly aimed.
  24. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    More "the mild one" than "The Wild One."
  25. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: C.W. Nevius
    25
    The obvious idea is to stage a motorcycle version of "The Fast and the Furious." Instead we get the flat and the tedious.
  26. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nat Johnson
    20
    Too bad that when the filmmakers aren't busy accommodating cameo models and comedians, they seem to be dozing off at the handlebars. Luckily, we're watching from a different side of the highway.
  27. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    20
    The movie is so sloppily written and directed that its bits of bluster never cohere.
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