Get out there, go and see it. It's on now (Bristol Showcase).
I went to see it tonight. This is just one _lovely_ film. It's pretty light on engineering, but Anthony Hopkins has the Duffer off perfectly.
Here is a guy who lives in his Shed. Lives in it. Bed, teapot and ML7. Oh, and sometimes his new girlfriend. There's hope for us all, and it seems that motorbikes do indeed keep you young (angina and prostates permiting).
So, the engineering is hokey. Especially the aluminium casting. And you don't see much of the bike itself (which was apparently a Ducati under that film-prop streamliner shell). But as a film about a Really Nice Bloke, who goes off to the weird foreign country and meets lots of nice people, who he's nice to, then it's smashing. He's a guy who's just _nice_. He hasn't a bad word for anyone and it doesn't matter who he meets, from cops and customs guys to motel drag queens and live indians, he wins them over just by being an honest bloke from down under who's come over to race his motorbike. Well, it works on Diane Ladd anyway - who keeps a welder handy, in case of passing Duffers with broken trailers.
And you have to love a film with the closing lines, "Good to be home. Back to my Shed"