Murdercycle (1999) User Reviews

Did I miss something?

[edgewelle · 2/10 · 7 October 2002]

For my money, there's nothing more terrifying than a plastic-covered motorcycle driving laps around people in slow motion. My chest was pounding as laser blasts from this unholy machine ricocheted off wooden wagon wheels and rusty metal. There was too much heart-stopping action in this movie to withstand!

"Murdercycle" is a weak (albeit fairly harmless) horror/action film from Full Moon pictures. The acting is very, very poor. Community theater level poor. People can't hold guns properly in this movie, and acting is replaced with disconcerting twitches and squints. Those faults are humorous ones, however; we can enjoy ourselves with the low quality of the acting and sets (two buildings, a lot of trees, and a janitor's break room comprise the shooting locations).

My real problem with "Murdercycle" is the character of Dr. Lee. She's a woman with psychic powers employed by the government. How does she have these powers? She explains, "Everybody has the ability to use this gift - but few do." I would venture to guess that the reason that people don't use this gift is that it turns you into a somber, completely uninteresting bore who contributes nothing to life. This character is pointless, uninteresting, unattractive, and annoying.

The murdercycle itself is a funny thing. A dirt bike covered with black plastic mounted with lasers of varying power. One minute, the laser blows up a truck. The next minute, it's rendered impotent by rotten wood. More often than not, the murdercycle kills it's victims by simply running over them. That's some space-age alien technology for you.

I can't bring myself to completely pan this movie. I enjoyed myself when not subjected to the monotone speeches of Dr. Lee. Avoid this if you're hoping for even somewhat decent action. Check it out if you're looking for a laugh.

What B movies should be.

[sleeping_gorilla · 3/10 · 16 April 2012]

This is a Grindhouse style movie. Of course this isn't a masterpiece, it's named "Murdercycle." They probably got the rights to the movie poster and wrote the script around it.

This movie is a one trick pony, it's not about the actors, which are terrible across the board. It's about how many cheesy stunts they can pull off with their costumed beast.

You expect a monster riding a motorcycle killing people? That's what you get. How rare is it to find a movie that delivers exactly what it advertises? Me and a friend dared each other to rent the dumbest looking movie we could find, and really we were laughing through the whole thing.

Get some advil, your gonna need it

[marko210 · 3/10 · 15 October 2009]

I forced myself to watch this movie because I recognized an actor's name, who was a personal friend, in the opening credits. Otherwise I would have turned it off after about 40 seconds. Words can not describe the strength it took to watch it all the way through. I actually hoped at one point that his character would die, so I could stop watching...seriously! The best thing I could say about this movie was that I got a chance to read the critiques which are here on this site. Some of which are hilarious. They are correct about how bad it is. We could form a club, around who hates this movie more.

Murdercycle should come with a warning.. "Don't watch this movie with a loaded weapon in the room...you may just want to kill yourself." Same goes for swords ...you may want to fall on one! It's that bad. And I don't mean...."it's so bad,it's good"...I mean it's...."what the hell was that?!".. bad.

Awful in every aspect

[Parca · 1/10 · 15 November 2001]

Everything in this movie is bad. The title is hilariously bad. The plot is a 1950s cheap sci-fi reject. The acting is uniformly horrendous. I mean, you get the feeling that these actors were told to just be themselves, and they couldn't get THAT right. Not one word is pronounced in a genuine-sounding form. The dialogue is mind-numbing. The humor is beyond idiotic. At best some of the conspiracy references were mildly amusing, although highly unoriginal in a post-"X Files" era. The best humor is unintentional, and even that is not enough. The cinematography was lame, with people crowded into one small space for some shots, shaky camerawork in other shots, lone people captured in the side rather than the center in what were supposed to be key shots, and an overall cheap-looking quality of film that reminds one more of a Cinemax soft-core porno. The special effects were outdated by 20 years, with the best effect being a blatant rip off of both "Terminator" and "Predator". I usually don't mind imitations of good things from other movies, but this was too much. There was slow-motion overkill, particularly whenever the 'murdercycle' showed up. The editing was bad. The score was severely unexciting and unatmospheric. The characters were heavily boring. And you have to wonder why it takes something as powerful as the 'murdercycle' to break into where it needed to break in to retrieve what it was looking for, particular given that it can materialize anywhere it wants to (talk about extraterrestrial intelligence). The costumes were boring. The set design was lifeless. And there's all sorts of things that don't make sense, like one guy getting shot in the back by a cheap laser beam from the 'murdercycle', which causes the GROUND beneath him to explode, making him merely flip around without a scratch, in typical action movie fashion. And the worst part of all is that everyone involved in the film is taking it seriously.

One could say that this would be the movie that most of the cast and crew would remove from their resume later on in their career. Unfortunately, none of the people involved in this flick look like they have a career ahead of them.

Another wretched Kushner Locke production

[JohnSeal · 1/10 · 20 March 2000]

Mind numbing nonsense about a possessed motorbike from outer space. 70 minutes of inane chatter and 20 minutes of low budget action. You've seen it all before; not even a good candidate for a $1 rental.

Somebody is a comic book buff

[davidemartin · 13 August 2003]

Nine of the character names are taken from big name comic book creators--

Neal ADAMS

John BUSCEMA

Vince COLLETTA

Steve DITKO

Frank FRAZETTA

Jack KIRBY

Stan LEE

Arnie SINNOTT

and

Wally WOOD

Very bad entertainment

[Sarina · 1/10 · 29 November 2000]

I usually like Full Moon stuff, just because they're so ridiculously funny, but this one wasn't funny-bad, just bad-bad. These three or four marines with a couple of civilians go try to kill an alien motorcycle--excuse me, MURDERcycle. They actually start calling it that in the movie, too. One of the civilians is a psychic, but she seems to be relatively useless until the very, very end. Some plot twists, but nothing to really hold one's interest, and nothing you can't see coming a mile away though a fog bank. Even the funny alien-watcher can't save this bad one from the trash heap, but he was a nice diversion.

The fusion of motorcycle, alien, and biker

[bkoganbing · 1/10 · 17 July 2020]

An alien has fused himslf with a traveling dirtbiker and his vehcle to make one formidable super weapon. What he's doing on earth is to retrieve an alien communication device lef here from previous visitors which our CIA has stored in a hidden facility.

Besides the struggle with this hybrid creature the squad of marines sent in to guard this thing feuds wth their CIA leaders.

Murdercycle is one truly lame science fiction film. It rates at the bottom of all categories, acting, writing, directing and laughable special effecs.

Don't waste your time.

Deepest hurting

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 15 December 2020]

Murdercycle, you have a great poster going for you and the absolutely insipid idea that aliens would come to Earth in the form of black leather wearing motorcycle riders, just like Galactica '80, a show that only I am cursed to remember.

That's when the military - along with a female doctor who can read minds - decides to head off to the desert to protect valuable alien intel that the Murdercycle wants back for its home planet.

So yeah. There are some conspiracy theories, some military cosplay and some Area 51 type shenanigans. It's a very made for video rental kind of movie, so if you miss that era, this is here to reward you. It's a small reward though, so be warned.

Director Thomas L. Callaway was the cinematographer for Action U.S.A., Slumber Party Massacre II, both Rage of Honor movies and something called Megachurch Murder that I feel like I have to seek out.

Credit for that awesome poster art goes to Charles Band, who was planning on using it from a movie called Battle Bikers. That artwork was never used, so it went to this movie.

Your ears aren't playing tricks on you when it comes to the character names. They're all Marvel Comics people, including Ditko, Wood, Adams, Coletta and Sinnott amongst others.

I would recommend skipping this...unless you're in the mood for a bad movie, then this is for you

[kevin_robbins · 2/10 · 6 May 2023]

Murdercycle (1999) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a meteor that crashes to planet Earth and infects a motorcycle rider and his bike. The man and his motorcycle are taken control of by the alien presence and sent on a mission to begin a killing spree until it can invade a military base and recover an alien artifact

This movie is directed by Thomas L. Callaway (Dead Man Rising) and stars Charles Wesley (Run the Race), Robert Donavan (Attack of the Unknown), William Vogt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), David A. R. White (God's Not Dead) and Stephen O'Mahoney (NYPD Blues).

The comet opening and transformation scene reminded me of the beginning of the Wraith...but that was the only part of this that was as good as that movie. The writing, acting and dialogue was as bad as you'd expect. The action scenes were just okay. The kills could have been better. The gun shots sounded like paintball guns and the ending was cheesy.

Overall, this is as bad as the title. I would score this a 2/10 and recommend skipping it...unless you're in the mood for a bad movie, then this is for you.

A sure fire classic for the ages!!!

[andballa489 · 10/10 · 10 December 2007]

This movie should not be taking lightly. Yes you could look at the crappy special effects and poor story, but if you look at it as a work of art you will surely see what I do. This movie is one I have being waiting to come out on DVD for ages. But they are just nailing down the special features to make it the best DVD release of all time. This movie as a near boob scene which make you want to rewind time and time again. Me and my best friend are huge fans since we were younger. This movie ranks right up there with the other greats such as Gator Bait, Good Guys Wear Black and Its Pat. ALL MUST BUYS. If you can wait there should be a high def version coming out soon and lets all hope for that sequel that this movie deserves.

Somewhat Imaginative for a B-movie!!

[BHorrorWriter · 7/10 · 23 June 2000]

True this movie was nothing spectacular. The special effects weren't really all that special. The acting wasn't Oscar worthy. The script was a little..well it was just a little... Yes we could all tell the "murdercycle" was covered with rubber and such...but come on...This movie wasn't too, too bad. I don't normally like sci-fi movies. I am more into HORROR. I love (for whatever reason) movies by Full Moon. This one was from one of their own spin off productions company's: ActionExtreme. This movie had an original idea (not the alien part), that really tried to develop into something. Though there was a very slow part, it did pick up towards the end, and finished with an "there could be a sequel" ending. Watch with an open mind. It is a B-movie, it was filmed on an old studio lot and that is very obvious. The whole thing probably didn't cost over a couple hundred thousand to make..Take that into consideration, and just enjoy the movie.

It wants its owner

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 21 August 2020]

An alien device attaches itself to a motor cycle with a human and turns into a killing machine. Unfortunately, the action is limited. The bulk of the film is about the internal drama within the investigation group and the internal struggle of Kirby (Charles Wesley ). About as lame as a made-for-TV.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Good but not great

[lordzedd-3 · 7/10 · 2 September 2006]

I liked it, it wasn't perfect by any means. The design for the Murdercyle was very cool, the outfit for the driver was cool. The whole concept of a government secret base and we stole something that an alien would kill to retrieve does make sense. Now the bad parts, the mild things that doesn't make it perfect. There are character issues, the Sargent barking orders at everyone, including the Doctor who really isn't under his command. The know it all Doctor who talks down the soldiers thinking they are just grunts that don't understand. Lastly, I don't recall the name MURDERCYCLE ever coming up in the course of the dialog. I really don't. The scientist should have said, "The alien orb turned the motorcycle into some kind of murdercycle." But those small issues didn't get in the way of me enjoying the film. I give it...7 STARS

Not bad, but could've been better

[SmakethDown638 · 7/10 · 5 March 2011]

I was always curious about Murdercycle as it had that interesting name to it and the potential for some good action. On top of that, it was a Full Moon movie. Murdercycle was not too shabby. It has a solid little story that developments as the movie goes on and things tend to get interesting. The concept was pretty cool and made for a decent little sci-fi movie. This movie could've been a lot better, however. The PG-13 rating is what really holds this movie down. This was just asking for some crazy gore, especially with people getting ran over by the Murdercycle. Add in some crazy gore, you make the action of this movie all the more memorable. Instead, it was action that just average. Even with an "Action Extreme" studio name attached to it, you'd better bring on the insane action. Unfortunately, that is not the case. My other gripe has to do with the Murdercycle itself. With that sort of name, there should have been some heavy duty weapons and crazy stuff. Instead, just little blue lasers that can't even destroy trees! That made the Murdercycle seem weak. Overall, not a bad little movie, but definitely could've been so much more. I guess it can be called a missed opportunity to an extent. Think of how cool merchandise could've been for Murdercycle...