Check this plot out and see if you can count all the cliches. Gary Busey is Buck, a family man let out of prison who finds his childhood town has been terrorized by a motorcycle gang in league with the bastard of a sheriff (Seymour Cassel, of all people). That means the gang can pillage, steal, and rape women whenever they want. Lovely. I already see a superior movie - the original "Mad Max." In fact, the virtually anonymous gang is led by a biker leader with a very poor man's Mohawk (William Smith - shades of Vernon Wells' Wez from "The Road Warrior"). To top it all off, they are living like scavengers in a desert plot of sorts just like the biker gang from "The Road Warrior." Even worse, the gang barrel through Buck's house and kill his wife and reduce the daughter to elongated catatonia.
Gary Busey is one of those actors that looks like he is made of steel and can't be hurt - he is the perfect hero for this. Yet there is nothing to latch onto in Buck's character, especially when he shares not one tear after his wife is dead. The gang even remove the dead wife's coffin and drag it to his demolished house! These guys are pure evil and they get their just desserts in one crafty explosion after another. I just yawned through the whole thing.
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