A little corny but what's wrong with that?

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2006)

I saw this at Cinema Sundays at the Charles in Baltimore.
The host, Jonathan Palevsky, actually arranged to have three Indian motorcycles in the theater for us to check out! And their owners were there to talk about them. Really cool! I enjoyed it a lot. Good acting, not overdone. Beautiful cinematography, just exquisite. Neat characters. Exciting story.
Parts of the film feel artificial -- the disclaimer says that although the film is based on real events, some characters are made up, some are composites, and some events are - I believe the word used is: "fictionalized." There are definitely times when you think, 'yeah, uh, huh, riiight." Still, really exciting, good story. I suspect kids would like it, maybe eight and up, maybe 10. Or it might not grab kids until early teens, I'm not sure. But it's suitable for them - at least I'd have taken my kid to it when she was eight.
I hope word of mouth is good to this picture. I think motorheads are going to dig the heck out of this picture, if they see it (the ones at Cinema Sundays seemed to), and I think effete intellectual snobs will like it too (*I* did!!). I said about "The Greatest Game Ever Played," "It's a chick flick - but it's about GOLF!" :O) Same with WFI. As it says in the trailer: based on one hell of a true story.