"Biker Boyz" is a pretty wicked movie as far as movies that celebrate men go, and this is a movie that any man will love because it has the three best attributes: women, bad ass motorcycles, and women, not mention some great action as well that's very involving. Based on real life people, the story centers around a large group of bikers who spend their days at work and weekends cycling gangsters who drink beer, challenge one another, and race non-stop.

The big gangs of the club are the Black Knights, led by the all time champion and respected member Smoke played by the wicked Laurence Fishburne. During a race, Smoke accidentally veers off the track and crashes killing his best friend and assistant Slick. Years later while guilt still lingers fresh, his son "Kid" comes back to settle a score with Smoke and de-throne him once and for all. Now, I love these types of movies with gangs and fast motorcyles and hot women so I was optimistic about "Biker Boyz" and I was pleasantly entertained at what I saw.

There are some good actors here that portray the best characters including the very talented Derek Luke as "Kid" the cocky but cool young biker who's desperate to de-throne
Smoke and put him to shame. There are colorful characters in the gangs as well including the always enjoyable Orlando Jones as Soul Train, the quick talking witty boaster who riles up the crowds, and psyches out the rival gangs before every race, and he's a lot of fun to watch here, including his interaction with Laurence Fishburne whom manages to exude a
lot of chemistry between them.

Then there's Fishburne who was the best thing in "The Matrix" films and is the best thing here with a character who is a lot fun to watch and should have taken the spotlight. The chemistry between he and Luke is great to watch and they're believable as rivals here. Amidst the drama which is considerably thin but still very engrossing, there are a lot of very entertaining and dazzling bike tricks with the incredible cycles, most of which were constructed by actual members of the real life club.

"Biker Boyz" is based around an article about men who race motorcycles on the weekends and form their own gangs and whatnot and race illegally for money, the whole film is about a young man trying to avenge his father, but don't be fooled by the ads, this is not as hardcore as you'd think, even with Laurence Fishburne, king bad-ass himself (Second being Samuel L. Jackson), this is really just a pretty safe film you can watch with your kids. "Biker Boyz" has nothing really to add to the table despite trying to be a modern "The Warriors" with a twist of "The Fast and the Furious", but while entertaining, this can also tend to be pretty ridiculous in its approach.

For a movie whose sole catch-phrase is "Burn Rubber, not your soul", a phrase that I'm still trying to figure out its meaning, it's no wonder "Biker Boyz" doesn't approach this concept with a little more edge. With very appealing characters, we don't see them do much, now it's assumed these men have jobs, because as the article is said to have featured, these races are consisted of working men who race, so these would have to be men in high paying professions, but we hardly ever see them working, so we have to wonder what's fueling their bikes and costumes.

Not to mention, for a movie whose concept revolves around motorcycle racing, director Reggie Rock Bythewood does not make for exciting sequences involving motorcycle racing, While the two "Fast and the Furious" movies were hardly masterpieces, at least the car racing scenes were pretty exciting and managed to amp up the audience with the right amount of excitement, yet here there's not a lot to take from the racing sequences, especially the ones that are the most important to the story, there are the choreographed scenes involving the cycles that are just cheesy at times, and then there are the main races which lack in excitement.

The story is, all the while, pretty simple with gangster riding motorcycles, kid wants to avenge his father and starts a new gang to challenge the man he blames, it's not exactly a Lynch film, but while the film's simplicity is entertaining, the plot takes a pretty ridiculous twist towards the second half that really does tend to push it over board as if the writers are stretching for dramatic effect, meanwhile there are some pretty cheesy sequences including some of the bike tricks that was meant to dazzle but are sometimes a bit over the top and the acting that never really registered, especially by musician Kid Rock, and the underused Larenz Tate who never gets his due here. In the end we feel as if we've watched a good guilty pleasure, but we're hardly satisfied.

While this film basically has it all for a cycle fan with dazzling stunts and costumes, there's also great performances by Derek Luke, Orlando Jones as the bad ass speech-meister, and of course king bad ass himself Laurence Fishburne who is the highlight here. It's a guys film, and guys will love it.