If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This movie was every bit as cheesy as I had expected it to be.80s movie? - Check. A young Nicole Kidman? - Check. BMX bikes? - Check. 80s synth electronica? - Check.The story in "BMX Bandits" is very simplistic and thus requires very little from the audience in order to keep up to speed. The storyline is also quite stereotypical for a movie such as this. A group of youngsters find something hidden by criminals, and as the bad guys try to get their stuff back they are bested by the underdog youngsters. And this time they do it on BMX bikes!The acting was as to be expected for a movie and script such as this. But it was funny to watch a very young Nicole Kidman in a movie such as this, of course.Everything here just reeked to high heaven of the 1980s, and with good reason.This movie would indeed have been enjoyable back in the 1980s when BMX bikes were hot and in, but not so much today.

This is the movie Mad Max: Fury Road could've been. Well, I mean, you know, it's pretty good, anyway. Better than its IMDb average score would suggest, I'd say. Who cares if it's not actually gritty and convincing? It's a kids movie! It's a fun ol' adventure! Plus, the sixteen year-old Nicole Kidman (in her Big Screen Debut, no less) is terrific. Why not watch it? Huh? Why not? Yeah, see? You can't answer me, can you? I thought as much.

Goose (James Lugton) and P.J. (Angelo D'Angelo) are two bike riding buddies who wreck their prized vehicles, after which they encounter young supermarket employee Judy (Nicole Kidman). To repair the bikes, they need quick money, so they go on a fishing expedition. They find a cache of walkie talkies anchored underwater & tied to a boat that they think is abandoned. But these communication devices are actually critical to a gang planning a major robbery and were merely kept there for safekeeping. Soon two of the baddies, a bumbling duo named Whitey (David Argue) and Moustache (John Ley) are hot on the kids' trail."BMX Bandits", as directed by the ever reliable Brian Trenchard-Smith, never pretends to be anything other than what it is: carefree escapism for the younger crowd. As such, it's completely engaging. One can just turn off their brains and enjoy it. The bicycle stunts and camera-work are absolutely first rate and there's a non-stop amount of action. Much of the running time is devoted to chases, and as these chases play out there's a fair bit of destruction that goes on. Argue ("Razorback") and Ley ("Turkey Shoot") are as good a dim bulb comedy duo as you'll ever see and suffer their fair share of indignities. The kids are extremely likable. Kidman, in what was only her second feature film appearance, is cute, spunky, and adorable; she does nothing to be ashamed of here. The movie may not be anything of substance, but that's the whole point. It's lively, harmless stuff that kills an hour and a half quite amiably. The reasonably funny script by Patrick Edgeworth (based on a screenplay by Russell Hagg) has a decent payoff when the kids go on about horror films they've seen and the head villain (Bryan Marshall) expresses disdain for the kind of thing that youngsters watch for entertainment!The pop score is irresistible, and Trenchard-Smith did a fine job of putting a smile on this viewers' face and keeping it there, right through the end credits.Eight out of 10.

I'm sure that there have probably been a lot more adventure films centered around BMXing than just BMX Bandits or Rad, but those are all that I have seen as of this writing. And while I thought 'Rad' was far too embarrassingly cheesy and was initially skeptical when I picked up BMX Bandits, BMX Bandits blew 'Rad' right out the water as far as acting, story, humor, and even action sequences.BMX Bandits is something like an Australian version of the Hardy Boys (plus one girl) mystery on wheels. Three teens desperate for money to not only get new bikes, but also finally fulfill their ambitions for a neighborhood dirt course decide to try and make the cash on their own. Only, their brief, unsuccessful time as fishing entrepreneurs leads them instead to a boat with a mysterious box tied to it. So, they did what any honest citizen would: they cut the rope and claimed the abandoned treasure for themselves. A case full of sophisticated walkie talkies which yield not only a pretty penny as they sell them to the neighborhood kids, but also a lot of trouble as they are chased by their skilled, gangster owners who wish to retrieve their finds and punish the kids for taking them, as well as the cops who think something much more is going on when their radio frequencies are interrupted with the conversations of the three teens on their walkie talkies.Despite the family film theme, the movie lacks much of the corniness common to the genre, the decade, or the BMX theme. The filmmakers were willing to be a little more daring with the dialog and the story, probably trying to appeal to audiences older than just the pre-teen market and do so in an often humorous manner, thanks mostly to the witty retort of Goose (James Lugton), one of the three main teens. Although, at least for me, one of the drawbacks was a longer-than-necessary conclusion in which the teens and the gangsters duke it out more or less.Nonetheless, it is an old adventurous cult classic that is well worth checking out.