New Zealand Biker Gang Movie

Sep 26 2018 genre.

New zealand biker gang movie.

New zealand is less the beautiful location where the lord of the rings was filmed and more a place of gangs violence and unrelenting bleakness in sam kelly s first feature film. A group of suburban biker wannabes looking for adventure hit the open road but get more than they bargained for when they encounter a new mexico gang called the del fuegos. But when tori is murdered by an opposing gang in town logan must choose forgiveness or revenge. Directed by tarry mortlock.

United states language. Lee tamahori s revolutionary once were warriors opened the eyes of cinema goers to an unexamined aspect of modern new zealand life. With joshua calles ruby grubb wayne hapi jol sparks. Crime drama length.

Joshua calles ruby grubb wayne hapi jol s. The history of gangs in australia goes back to the colonial era. Walt becker stars. Criminal gangs flourished in the rocks district of sydney in its early history in the 19th c.

There are numerous gangs in new zealand of varying criminality organisation and ethnicity including outlaw motorcycle gangs street gangs and ethnically based gangs a chapter of the hells angels motorcycle club was formed in auckland in 1961 the first hells angels chapter outside the us. Tamahori infiltrated the domestic dwelling of an urban māori whanau family to depict the harsh domestic and gang violence experienced by modern day māori. Logan an ex gang leader has left the gang life to raise his daughter tori. The film provided career defining roles for temuera morrison and rena owen as jake the muss and beth heke.

Soon after the mongrel mob formed in hastings and wellington developing into a predominantly māori. As a challenge to the gang s divisive leader moses john tui brews savage traces damage s past from his rural childhood as danny.