BMX Bandits

Locations
Call Number: Blu-ray Action BMX
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Action BMX	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Based on a screenplay by Russell Hagg.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Bria Trenchard-Smith; BMX buddies: featurette with cast & crew (40 min.); Nicole Kidan on young talent time; theatrical trailer.
David Argue, John Ley, Nicole Kidman, Angelo D'angelo, James Lugton.
Three BMX-riding friends spend a boring afternoon fishing and end up with more excitement than they can handle. Stolen merchandise is discovered and they decide they can make a profit. Will the rightful owners come looking for their stuff?
Blu-ray Disc; Dolby TrueHD, 1080p High Definition; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

family friendly adventure film submitted by irenzero on July 14, 2013, 3:04pm BMX bandit is notable for a very young Nicole Kidman, but beyond that it's also a picture of a place in time. As Kidman and her co stars ride their BMX bikes though suburban 80s Sydney Australia. The plot is pretty secondary and gives an excuse for the action, the bike riding and stunts... but that's a good thing all of those are first rate. If you are looking for something different, looking for a film to share with kids or just want to do a little time travel back to the 80s BMX Bandits is worth a look.

Hilariously Dated submitted by Meginator on July 25, 2022, 11:27am This film starts out surprisingly strong, given its predictable storyline about a group of kids who become embroiled in a criminal plot, but it gradually loses steam and resorts to strangely edited chase sequences to pad out its running time. The three main actors, including a young Nicole Kidman, have excellent chemistry and a lot of charm between them, which keeps the film entertaining even as it begins to drag around the halfway point. The action sequences themselves are exciting and humorous (to the point of being ridiculous, but that’s a big part of the fun here), but they lack some connective tissue between set pieces; together, they fill up most of the back half of the runtime, to the film’s detriment. Still, the suburban Sydney scenery is beautiful, the BMX stunts provide an interesting point of comparison for how far the sport has come, and the story is fairly low stakes. A younger audience could enjoy this, but I prefer just a little more substance, or at least some changes of pace, even in this genre.