The Wild One (1953)
4/10
Cartoonish
6 December 2023
Brando is awful in this. Personally, I think Brando has always been vastly overrated as an actor. But in this movie he's not only miscast he gives a very shallow and cartoonish performance not even remotely based in reality. Brando has the voice of a 10 year old boy! How can anybody be scared of that guy? And how anybody could think this guy was a great actor is hard to fathom. He had the impressive looks, but that was all he had.

As for the movie it's just dumb and silly. The makers of this movie didn't have a clue about bikes or anything else. It almost comes across as a comedy. It's downright goofy at times. Real bikers probably watched this movie and cracked up laughing and walked out of the theater. And I wouldn't blame them.

Another "classic" bites the dust. Oh well.
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