Together, they recruit a team of confidential informants to infiltrate not just the Mongols, but some of the most notoriously violent biker gangs out there: the Outlaws, the Pagans and the Merciless Souls.īut as ever, Falco’s personal life makes for complications, this time in the form of the seductive, free-spirited artist Sarah-Jane. Introducing us to a raft of colorful new characters (and the surprise return of some old ones) this new season sees Falco’s wits tested to the limits as he joins ranks with Bullet: a grizzled, relentlessly driven undercover cop with a personal grudge against bike gangs. Before he knows it, he’s in over his head, and plunged into a world darker and more dangerous than anything he experienced with the Vagos. He’s desperately trying to fit in, but fueled by a restless unease and an inability to embrace his new world, he finds himself agreeing to sign up to a new undercover operation, this time against the Mongol bike gang. Almost two years on from the busts, he is living strange new life as a man with no identity in an unfamiliar Virginian town. So all in all a good undercover cop drama.Season 2 of Gangland Undercover picks up Charles Falco’s story as he seeks refuge from the aftermath of Operation 22 Green against the Vagos. No, this one is the superior film on almost level, it is a bit surprising to see Charlie Sheen pull off a biker dude, but he does so very well. "Stone Cold" was a fun movie to watch, but just not the same caliber as this movie. There is a bit of action in this one, but this film is primarily a drama and it is a good movie too. He has the aura of a biker dude, something Lance Henrickson did not have in "Stone Cold". Also in this one is Michael Madsen, who plays the biker leader very well. He does so very well as he makes his motorcycle from scratch which using one already assembled and retrieved from a police lock up has nearly deadly consequences for a man who did not go quite as undercover as Charlie's character. Charlie Sheen does a surprisingly good job in the lead role, a guy who goes deep undercover to try and infiltrate a biker gang. The main difference is that this one is based on a true story and is more serious fare than that film. This movie is a bit like the over the top Brian Bosworth film "Stone Cold". Reviewed by Aaron1375 8 / 10 Good undercover biker movie with Charlie Sheen. The film runs 108 minutes and was shot in the Phoenix, Arizona, area and El Mirage Dry Lake, California. It doesn't hold a candle to giants like 1966's "The Wild Angels" or 1969's "Easy Rider," but it's still worthwhile if you enjoy the genre and the last act is the best part. This is a decent biker film and is unsurprisingly better than a lot of the low-budget biker flicks from 1966-1973, but it seems too polished and bubble-gummy. A couple of other women have cameos at a saloon. Linda Fiorentino is sharp as the main babe, but she's blown out of the water by Blood's "old lady," the raven-haired bombshell played by Hollie Chamberlain. The rockin' soundtrack is great, featuring cuts by the likes of Saigon Kick, Asphalt Ballet and Dying Breed, as well as more mellow stuff. The other members of The Jackals are well cast, like Michael Madsen as the leader, Blood, and Leon Rippy as Virgil, the mechanic. Still, he's a good actor and, if you're a fan of the outlaw biker film genre that ran from 1966-1973, "Beyond the Law" is a must. His baby-face doesn't help, although they try to hide it with a beard. This isn't helped by the miscasting of Charlie Sheen who, although an excellent actor as witnessed by 1986' "Platoon," lacks the physical presence and grittiness to be believable in the role. The acting & dialogue come across as how a geeky screenwriter imagines bikers to act rather than how they really do. After watching the gritty, realistic "Gangland Undercover" I was a bit let down by the tone of "Beyond the Law." While the bikers are wild and do totally wicked things, the movie has too much sheen to stack-up, excuse the pun. Both the series and 1993's "Beyond the Law" are about individuals going undercover and joining an outlaw biker gang. My wife watches "Gangland Undercover" on the History Channel and I sometimes catch clips of it. Reviewed by Wuchakk 6 / 10 Sheen is miscast as a tough outlaw biker, but a decent biker flick
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