"Gabriel.... Gabriel, can't you see we're menacing someone?"A Green Beret returns home to find out that his fiancee has been murdered by a biker gang. He gathers his friends and fellow members of his platoon set out undercover to find the gang and bring them to justice.
As a revenge movie, this is very clinical. It's like watching Col Sam Flagg from MASH get a bunch of his buddies together, get bikes and clothes they think biker gangs wear and try to infiltrate them. If I were a real biker, I'd play along and lead them the wrong way. There are real Wingtip Hippie moments.
Speaking of biker gangs, if you want your biker gang to look mean, you don't have the lead biker (played by William Smith) say "Maybe we should wait for the cops!" after one of your bikers run a car off the road. William Smith really tried to make his character at least look mean, but you end up liking the guy. I mean it. You're rooting for William to really rough up Tony Young's character. The guy is as square as he gets! Hit him Will!!
This all leads up to the climax of Biker vs. Green Beret in a series of canyons. Well...really it's more like bikers go to the canyons to have fun and get ambushed by Green Berets with tear gas followed by edged hands and really ridiculous punches. Seriously, if you wanted a slam bang climax, wouldn't it be wise to at least give the bikers a chance to at least throw one punch? If the message this movie was conveying was biker gangs are bad, it failed miserably. It more likely told the audience that Green Berets are dicks.
The only good parts in this movie besides William Smith is the subplot with Gabriel, the pinball wizard and Marvin Gaye playing a Green Beret (I'm a poet and don't know it!). This movie is pretty much something to watch on a Sunday when nothing on and you don't want to go back to bed.
I give this two stars.
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