JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

sonya90028 Marianne Faithful plays a bored housewife, who decides to leave her husband, and ride a motorcycle throughout the European countryside. She'd been having a steamy affair with a handsome, virile man, who she considers way more exciting than her milquetoast spouse. So, she takes off with her paramour to find herself, and lead what she hopes is a more fulfilling life.It was unusual for a young woman to take to the road by herself, back in the 60s. So in this way, this film was unique in it's day. It does have an overabundance of psychedelic special effects, throughout the course of the movie. This was customary for many 60s films, but it was overdone here, and had a distracting effect that was irritating.Marianne Faithful looks ravishing in her full-body leather biker gear. She has a good-looking, but rather wan face. I thought a more robust-looking actress, who could project a more fiery temperament than Marianne, would've been more appropriate in the lead role. Marianne just seemed too ethereal, to be a rebellious biker gal.The movie has a snazzy concept. But, it also has a lackluster quality, that ruins the overall premise of the plot. The pace of the film, is far too slow and boring, for a film about a devil-may-care girl biker. If you're a Marianne Faithful fan, you may enjoy this movie, in spite of its lugubrious quality.

tmoe_awppw Motorcyclist Perspective From a Motorcyclist Perspective I enjoyed this film. The European landscape and a hot, leather clad, horny babe on a FL Harley-Davidson American motorcycle really turned my crank. This is a classic with a lot of riding scenes this is the type of material I crave to digest when I am not on my motorcycle, a kind of substitute ride if you will. Sexy women wrapped in tight leather are you kidding why not give this film a ten it is the greatest.I would compare it to Easy Rider only a female version I bet Peter Fonda saw this film and was then inspired to make Easy Rider. I put this in my top ten list of motorcycle saturated films. I saved it on my DVR and will watch it again and again and encourage every other motorcyclist to do the same. It even had the psychedelic visuals like Easy Rider. I wish someone would remake a modern version of Girl on a Motorcycle.

quentin124 for a Rocky Horror-style spiel or an MST3K setup. Just hum the Batman theme every time it goes to a cheesy headon driving shot, go heavy on the blind guy jokes when Raymond's driving in shades, slather on the sadomasochism references, keep your kraut/frog jokes handy, and dump as many putdowns of the style on it as you can, focusing on the 2001-ripoff psychedelic bits, the pitch black midnight chalet sex scene, and whatever really annoys you in particular about this flick. Give a loud cheer at the ending. Be thankful that it's only 90 minutes. Hopefully, you'll be able to catch this on a movie channel or some midnight screening, and won't have to pay more than 5 bucks up front for the chance to go from anticipation to "WTF is this dreck?" to gleeful outright mockery. And since you've read this, you can skip the first two and go straight to the right way to approach it.

arotolante I feel I must comment on what aimless-46 said in his (or her) review:"The ending is a bit of a puzzle; after the accident they pull up from the scene to a wide aerial shot and you expect the movie to go out on this shot (copied for "Easy Rider's" ending), which would have been very effective. Instead they cut to a travelogue-like scene of a European village and go to credits after about 60 seconds of this stuff. It serves no purpose other than to deflate any lasting impact."Actually the ending is quite clear and extremely effective!Earlier in the film, Rebecca daydreams about seeing her lover at 8am. As the clock chimes 8 in Heidelberg, we see Rebecca on her motorcycle traveling the road, parking her bike, running up the garden path to the gazebo and falling into Daniel's arms. She is then pulled out of her daydream (I believe by the tank full of soldiers driving past her on the road) and continues with her "real" travel to her lover.At the end of the film, this scene is played out again. Once the camera pulls away from Rebecca's crash, we hear the clock begin to chime 8 in Heidelberg. The camera focuses in on the clock, then revisits the same locations that Rebecca had imagined in her daydream, only she is not there. There is a sadness as we see the deserted road where she imagined she would travel, the place where she would have parked her bike, the empty garden path and the gazebo. We see the void she has left behind due to the carelessness leading to her horrible (yet spectacular) crash. And the viewer can't help but be reminded of how she told Daniel the last time they met that she would never come to him again. One wonders how he will take the news of her death, or if he will find out about it at all. Basically it's a meditation on loss and it's really quite moving.By the way, it's impossible to see this film and not get the metaphor of a teenage girl's dark sexual awakenings as embodied in the wedding gift of a motorcycle from her lover.A groovy soundtrack, leather, whips, motorcycle races, Alpine skiing, free love, fondue, Marianne Faithful getting lashed by a dozen thorny red roses - what a film! Thank you, Mr. Cardiff!