Motorcycle clubs get some attention this week on Movies Merica with the new Jeff Nichols movie “The Bikeriders.” You may know Jeff Nichols from his previous movies “Mud” and “Midnight Special.” This movie stars Tom Hardy as Johnny, the founder of the Vandals bike riding club and Austin Butler as Benny, another member.
Butler is like a younger “rebel without a cause” member to Hardy’s older, settled but still rough founder.
Enter Jodie Comer as Austin Butler’s wife Kathy, who is scared of the club, yet intrigued and awed by it.
As you might expect, this bike riding club doesn’t just stay a bunch of guys and their old ladies riding around, having a great time.
These are roughnecks who just don’t care, so that gets them in trouble with people who hate bike riders, the law and other clubs.
The heat gets turned up on the club and life gets bloody real fast and this causes tension between Johnny, Kathy and Benny.
The club also has to deal with increasing danger as the club expands to other cities and they find they now have some scarier members that don’t take orders from anybody, not even Johnny.
The fuse has been lit, when will it explode?
“The Bikeriders” also stars Michael Shannon, Damon Herriman, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus, Beau Knapp, Emory Cohen, Karl Glusman, Toby Wallace, Happy Anderson, Paul Sparks and Will Oldham.
