Despite lashings of sex and violence, this film about warring motorcycle gangs is remarkably devoid of subversiveness
Ah yes: the biker drama about tattooed chest-beating meatheads who ride and root and drink and fight. Haven’t we seen this movie before? The debut feature film director Stephen McCallum reheats a stodgy petrol-scented sandwich in 1%, for a story about – as the press notes put it – “brotherhood, loyalty, ambition and betrayal” in the Copperheads motorcycle gang, where Paddo (Ryan Corr) is “heir to the throne.”
What throne? Perhaps I’m letting that particular word bother me too much. But the idea that the seedy lead-footed goons populating this ugly underworld drama belong to anything remotely resembling a kingdom suggests what the story should be trying to avoid: glamorising the lives of miscreants and meatheads. These beefcakes are not part of any kingdom; that word, like “dynasty”, romanticises the squalor of their lives.
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