Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Lack of good storyline.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

In Venice, California, the leader of Hell's Angels Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) tells his friend Joe 'Loser' Kearns (Bruce Dern) that he had located his stolen motorcycle in Mecca. While trying to retrieve the bike, Loser is shot on the back by a police patrol end goes to the hospital. After the surgery, Blues and the Hell's Angels take Loser from the hospital and he dies. The troublemakers prepare his funeral at Sequoia Groves with a wild party."The Wild Angels" is among the worst movies I have ever seen. This trash directed by Roger Corman is a dated mess with terrible performances, unlikable characters completely lost and a pointless screenplay. The bikers request the service of the preacher to destroy the church? Blues interrupts the preacher's speech to say shallow words but when the Hell's Angels are ready to bury Loser, he says no words to his best friend. The story has the only objective of shocking the audience with rapes, sacrilege and stupid and senseless violence. My vote is one (awful).Title (Brazil): "Os Anjos Selvagens" ("The Wild Angels")

That's what it seemed like ''way back in 1966. Producer Roger Corman set out to make a film based on the notorious California-Based ''Hell's Angels'' motorcycle gang, having seen a cover story about them in Life Magazine.Legendary ''B'' movie studio, American International Pictures was just as anxious to jump on the ''Biker Bandwagon'' (they eventually produced or distributed eleven more films on this subject) and gave the OK to Corman. Though George Chakiris (''West Side Story'' Oscar Winner) was originally cast in the lead role, it was Peter Fonda who ended up playing the part. Playing his ''Old Lady'' was Nancy Sinatra, who was then riding high with her hit single ''These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.Bruce Dern played ''The Loser'' the part originally intended for Fonda, and Dern's then wife Diane Ladd portrayed his on-screen spouse. There were a few familiar faces among the supporting actors as well, including Gayle Hunnicutt, in an early appearance, and Assistant Director Peter Bogdonavich, who is glimpsed in the climactic brawl,as is Corman himself. The story itself is really just a loosely connected series of incidents which allow the viewer to follow the ''Angel's'' exploits as if they were viewing a Documentary about the gang. Since ''The Wild One''aside, this was the film that started the whole ''Cycle'' cycle, it's not surprising that it has a very experimental feel to it.The location photography is excellent, and belies the brief three week shooting schedule, while the musical score written by future AIP Biker music stalwart (and future Lieutenant Governor) Mike Curb, is dynamic and fits the visuals like a glove. The same goes for the group (''Davie Allan And The Arrows'') who perform it. In fact ''Blues Theme'' was a hit single for the group, and the Soundtrack Album proved so popular that a second volume was released. Both records, in fact, started the ''Motorcycle Soundtrack'' craze, most of which were released on Curb's ''Tower/Sidewalk'' labels, a Capitol Records affiliate during the 60's. The actors themselves are not given much opportunity to spread their wings and fly, so to speak, but, under the circumstances, they do all right. Dern is especially convincing as ''The Loser'' and Ladd evokes the sympathy her character calls for. Fonda is a bit weak as ''Heavenly Blues'' the leader, but Sinatra makes a pretty tough ''Momma'' and though her natural beauty is downplayed, she is still very easy on the eyes.Upon it's release, the low-budget film proved enormously popular (AIP'S biggest hit so far) and convinced them to launch a whole series of ''Protest'' films. (A wise decision on their part, because they kept the studio in the profit margin for years to come). The Biker genre would have it's share of hits and misses, and, thanks to a few Poverty-Row, independent productions like ''The Hellcats'' ''The Rebel Rousers'' and ''The Cycle Savages'' (starring Dern) all of which made this one seem fairly lavish by comparison, it had petered out by the early seventies. Nevertheless, ''The Wild Angels'' and a few successors like ''Devil's Angels'' and ''Born Losers'' (both released in 1967) remain among the most popular''B'' films of their era.

What a waste. Utterly moronic. Depressing as hell. Actually makes you want to root for the cops. The only thing this pile of crap has going for it is some desert scenery and cool vintage panhead H-D choppers. And here's a surprise: Nancy Sinatra was NOT an attractive woman. She looks more like the daughter of the "Chairman of the Abhorred." Gayle Hunnicutt, however, was HOT, HOT, HOT! Too bad SHE wasn't Sinatra's daughter, or we'd probably have seen more of her in the film. She's featured more prominently in 1969's "Marlowe," with James Garner. Michael J. Pollard is way out of place as a biker, as is Buck Taylor (Newly from TV's Gunsmoke). However, the most miscast, out of place "actor" has to be Norman Alden, as Medic. Norman Alden is the epitome of "square." He's probably best known as Lou, the repairman on those Delco TV commercials, playing (most likely) himself -- an utter bore. Lordy. A "better" biker film is "Hell's Angels on Wheels," with Jack Nicholson, but still not really a good film.

Indie Corman flick about how the lives of a group of Hell's Angels, particularly leader Blues(Peter Fonda), change when one of their own(Bruce Dern) is harmed after stealing a police officer's bike.More of a curio regarding neo-nazi riders living by their own rules and partying non-stop, but I kind of felt there's not a lot here except that. This is obviously made for a certain crowd who probably worship it, but I felt it was just dated and silly. It does kind of get disturbing how reckless they live and that mantra of doing things their own way while thumbing nose at "The Man" was probably certainly embraced at that time when the world was changing because of Vietnam. Their behavior is questionable, but I found their chosen symbol of the Third Reich more artistic dressing than representing Hitler and his evil path. Has an interesting cast such as Nancy Sinatra as Mike, Blues' love interest and Diane Ladd as Gaysh,the lover of Loser, the one badly wounded.More for those who love seeing a group of rowdy roughies getting wasted, dancing gleefully to silly beach pop tunes, and living it up in depravity.