SparkMore
n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
Matrixiole
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Jemima
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Michael Ledo
Rod "crash and burn" Tillman (Steve Alaimo) races super modified stock cars. While at a nightclub down on his luck he is approached by a biker gang of four, "Satan's Angels." They want him to drive a station wagon get-away car for a bank robbery. Guess how that goes? Check out the tires squealing on dirt.This is MST-3000 bad and is part of their series, the preferred way to watch this film. In one scene, Rod has a guitar. He is asked to play, consents, and then sings instead, setting the guitar down. It didn't really matter because none of the white folk were dancing to the music...they were dancing, but they didn't let the music affect them.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.
Uriah43
After spending most of his money and two years of effort working on his stock car, "Rod Tillman" (Steve Alaimo) wipes out at the race track and pretty much loses everything. Terribly disappointed he sells his trailer and essentially becomes a down-and-out drifter. One night he ventures into a bar and meets a small biker gang called "Satan's Angels" who offer him a chance to earn some money by being the getaway driver for a job they have planned. Although he is rather reluctant at first a police detective by the name of "Lt. Dorn" (Walter Philbin) asks him to take the job in order to help the police finally nab these guys. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie I will just say that it had a decent plot but the execution left much to be desired. I say this because the actions of the bikers were just too reckless and bizarre to be believed and the longer the film played the more unrealistic it got. Even so it wasn't all bad and there is some entertainment value to be had if a person can somehow disregard some of the more ludicrous scenes. Accordingly, I rate it as just slightly below average.
mgconlan-1
I just caught "Wild Rebels" on one of the "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" archive compilations, and this movie was so bad even the MST3K crew couldn't make it entertaining. There are some MST3K "targets" that were films whose concepts were so dippy they couldn't possibly have been good movies (like "The Green Slime"), and others whose basic premises could have been made into genuinely entertaining films if their filmmakers hadn't bobbled them in the execution. "Wild Rebels" is a film whose basic premise DID make a good movie three years earlier, when Don Siegel directed his remake of "The Killers" at Universal. Both films are about a failed racing driver who's seduced by a femme fatale into driving the getaway car in a robbery masterminded by the woman's boyfriend -- only in "The Killers" the driver was John Cassavetes, the woman was Angie Dickinson and the criminal mastermind (cast wildly but successfully against type in what turned out to be his final film) was Ronald Reagan. Steve Alaimo, Bobbie Byers and Willie Pastrano are quite a comedown! But what REALLY makes "Wild Rebels" an awful movie is the direction by William Grefé (note the accent over the final "e," present in his on-screen credit), which has absolutely no sense of pace whatsoever and seems to let every shot run at least half again as long as it needs to to make its dramatic point. It's only a pity that someone didn't do a mocking commentary on this movie now (in 2009); the comparison between Steve Alaimo's hairdo and Rod Blagojevich's would have been irresistible!
DJAkin
This movie was lacking in a lot of areas. It's about this Elvis type guy who races cars and is approached by these BIKERS from SATANS ANGELS. One of them is named Banjo and they beat up college kids for fun. THey want the Elvis guy to be their "driver". At times, I wanted the folks from MSTK3000 to be quiet because the movie was actually kind of good. Sure, there was violence and a lot of cheesy lines, such as "What kind of beer do you want? A COLD ONE". That was cheesy. The dude who plays Banjo is a great boxer and I was glad to see him do a few fight scenes. Also, the biker named FATS had a NAZI SWASTIKA on his jacket!!! That was pretty bold if I must say so myself.