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Not bad, but a few issues (spoilers)


Even though they try to make this gang look really hardcore by the beating they gave the two guys in the beginning, the main characters throughout the rest of the film are portrayed as fairly good people:
They have a cake ceremony for the mother character (complete with numbered candles), they give pep talks to each other about life (the girl in the beginning to the main character with the bloodied hand), they are accepting of outsiders at private parties (the main character's ex's new boyfriend), they leave the farmhouse immaculately clean after a biker party (as shown in later scenes), they mention that they are "30 miles" from the nearest town (gas station?) and yet after a night of partying, all of the members with bikes take off (to go where?).

It just didn't fit. I've never been in a motorcycle club, but I've been around members of clubs before, and anyone else who has--knows that the characters in this film were not depicting MC behavior. The main character might as well have been a college kid; if he would have been portrayed as someone who wanted out of the club I could have bought it, but they actually portray him as someone who is complaining about preforming menial club tasks.

I liked the film, but they should have made the characters more hardcore or not made them a motorcycle club.


EDIT: After a couple of weeks now, I have to say that one scene has stuck with me and I have to give credit where it's due. The guy with the headphones was perfectly cast. He is sort of ambiguous compared to all of the other characters because he doesn't speak and when the girl is begging him for help, I actually didn't know if he would help or not. But when he takes his headphones off and puts them on the girl, oh man, you realize that this guy is in no way good, and there was never a chance of him helping. That dreadful sound in the headphones...very creepy. Like I said, it's been a couple weeks but that scene has stuck with me.

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