Easy Rider
User Score
7.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 27
  3. Negative: 4 out of 27

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  1. DBZ0wnz
    Jan 16, 2011
    1
    This has gotta be the worst movie ever made, nothing appealing except Jack Nicholson, Two guys riding throughout the movie which is very tedious to enjoy.
  2. ryancarroll88
    Aug 27, 2010
    7
    Just as the film explores what the limits of freedom are in an unjust and prejudiced world, the actual movie pushes the limits of the quality of a picture produced by two drugged-out stars on the road, defying the logic of big, Hollywood, money-bloated moguls. But just as the taste of total freedom turns sour in the movie, the question of whether this movie should be considered a classic is a shaky "I don't know..."… Expand
  3. ShannonP.
    Jul 28, 2008
    3
    Portrays the hippie/drug culture wanderers with great depth and sympathy, but paints middle America with a broad nasty brush. Slow. Boring. Very little actually happens and when it does, it takes the easy way out. If this had been released 10 years later, it would have been relegated to the dustbin. And I wanted to like it.
  4. Kyle
    Jun 15, 2008
    9
    Most important film of the 60s.
  5. TonyB.
    Jun 7, 2008
    1
    Overrated claptrap in 1969 and virtually unwatchable now.
  6. BuzzC.
    May 6, 2008
    10
    Strange. But very cool!

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Metascore
86 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    100
    Fonda and Hopper’s now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. [Review of re-release]
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  2. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    70
    The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir - particularly in its narcissism and fatalism - of how the hippie movement thought of itself. [Review of re-release]
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  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    Someday it was inevitable that a great film would come along, utilizing the motorcycle genre, the same way the great Westerns suddenly made everyone realize they were a legitimate American art form, Easy Rider is the picture.
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