Biker Boyz

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

If you want old-school cool, you go to Laurence Fishburne.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A blatant re-spin of ''The Fast and the Furious'' that also happens to be a far better movie.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

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.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

All of this is intriguing material, but the movie doesn't do much with it.

Variety Robert Koehler

Never really busts out of second gear.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

It's too long and self-consciously progressive to be entertaining, but it's too well-intentioned to be dismissed altogether.

TV Guide Angel Cohn

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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

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.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

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.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

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.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

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.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

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.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Though it's only 90 minutes, the film drags, making these not-so-easy riders pretty tough to watch.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

However you pronounce Bythewood -- I assume it's by-the-wood -- his work here is strictly by the numbers.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

This startlingly lame tale about a young upstart challenging a veteran leader of the pack doesn't update the genre, it simply recasts it.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This motorcycle melodrama is so stupid that during the press screening my colleagues' laughter threatened to drown out the roar of the engines.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

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.

Salon.com Jeff Stark

There's not enough fast and even less furious.

Washington Post

Has the stink of man-musk all over it.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

More "the mild one" than "The Wild One."

San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius

The obvious idea is to stage a motorcycle version of "The Fast and the Furious." Instead we get the flat and the tedious.

Chicago Tribune Kevin M. Williams

Unintentional comedy that will bore even the 15-year-olds at which it is undoubtedly aimed.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Guy flicks can be just as galling as the chick variety. Here's Exhibit A in how to lose an audience in ten minutes.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

The movie is so sloppily written and directed that its bits of bluster never cohere.

Village Voice Nat Johnson

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.