Official Trailer
Our Review
- Tom HardyBoyd Holbrook, Jodie Comer
- June 21st 2024
- Jeff Nichols
Austin Butler and Tom Hardy play members of the Vandals motorcycle club in the new crime drama.
Jeff Nichols has assembled a veritable who’s who for his new motorcycle club drama The Bikeriders.
The film, based on a photojournalism book by Danny Lyon, tells the story of the Vandals motorcycle club in Chicago across several years in the ’60s and ’70s. What begins as a group for bike lovers led by Johnny (Tom Hardy) eventually devolves into a violent crime syndicate.
The audience’s window into the world is Kathy (Jodie Comer), who is married to prominent Vandals member Benny (Austin Butler). She gives interviews with photographer/journalist Danny (Mike Faist) over the years and catches him up on the Vandals’ gossip, thereby becoming our de facto narrator.
Because of this narrative device, Kathy and Comer are the heart of the film, even though they’re not actually in the motorcycle club! We get to know her the best and understand her position on all the goings-on, while Benny and Johnny have a mysterious quality about...
