Biker BoyzDirected by Reggie Rock BythewoodUnited International Pictures: General release, 27 JuneJeremy Fleming

The Gazette was attracted to this film principally by someone cunning in public relations who angled it cleverly to the legal market: 'Lawyers and city workers by day, they take to streets in their leathers to race by night.' So went the spiel.

If the PR who wrote that had written and directed the film, it might have been something more than a colossal disappointment.

According to its makers, 'Biker Boyz' is 'an action-packed contemporary western on wheels with desperadoes who live every day on the edge'.

Apart from the word 'desperadoes', nothing else lives up to the hype.

What happens is this: there are underground bike gangs in California.

One gang - called the Black Knights - is led by the fastest biker in town, the 'King of Cali', played by Laurence Fishburne (of 'Matrix' Fame).

A young upstart gang led by a biker called Kid (played by Derek Luke, who appears in the title role in 'Antwone Fisher') is vying to take the crown from the King of Cali.

Kid's gang is called Biker Boyz.

Biker Boyz is a multi-ethnic, cool gang.

But things are complicated.

There are issues between the King of Cali and Kid.

Kid's father, an old friend of the King's, was killed in a bike accident.

Kid's mother does not want Kid to ride.

But she is also shielding a terrible truth from Kid.

He is in fact the kid not of the man he thought was his (late) father but of the King of Cali.

He's the King's Kid.

It is all very Shakespearian, including the little rom-com sideshow featuring Kid's relationship with Tina, a tattoo artist who looks very nice in a miniskirt.

There is a lawyer in there, by the way.

He is called Soul Train - but he is not a 1970s funk band.

Soul Train helps Kid get out of trouble.

He is also a biker and cheerleader for the Black Knights.

But most of all he is one of the most ridiculous characters you will ever see in a film.

This film would be more bearable if you drink a large whisky and swallowed some sleeping pills before entering the cinema.