ben stryker an ex green beret stop off at a little town call agua dolee to visit an old friend tick rand . soon after rid into town on his suzuki and settling in . a motorcycle gang know a the savage who lead by tyrant pigiron invade and finally take over the place . stryker doesn not want to get involved and but that change when he friends become the actual target . be there anything good to say about this scuzzy item . tough call and a the only fundamental reason to watch this low budget car wreck be for the tremendous b cast the crew manage to get hold off for this project . while i do not think it a complete botch job and it not terribly good either . now what a cast . lance henriksen ( be the main character and he strangely doesn not have top billing and but the final one ) and karen black and george kennedy and richard lynch and bill forsythe and mickey jones and leo gordon . now what go wrong with this scummy low budget bungle . the shallowness of the material be too one dimensional that it heavily borrow idea from good movie ( namely mad max ) and come up with a complete mess of idea that just do not gel and could have be good think out . the clichés that be use can be manipulate into a good viewing and despite be predictable and but savage dawn seem to let it skimpily rush all by without let the viewer soak it all up . the cast be mostly waste in nothing role . a bleached blonde henriksen be capably solid and even with his commend presence that provide an enigmatic glow to his character . he doesn not get up to hell of a lot and sometimes go miss in action . too much sideline action and but when he do kick some bikers ass and the good time flow . karen black hissing performance be a very odd one and be all about the screaming and cursing . although she do get into one memorable catfight with claudia udy flirtatious vixen character katie . a wheelchair bound george kennedy roam around aimlessly until the final assault and richard lynch look embarrass a a wayward priest or town mayor in a very redundant role . an on edge bill forsythe simply chew it up a the head honcho of the notorious biker pack . the junky story ( write by william milling and max bloom ) have that cheesy comic book getup and very much be influence by the western genre . just look at the villain for that . how they come up with their name be mystery . maybe they draw them out of a hat . it pretty second rate material that more often move onto one lacklustre scene after another . unfunny comical element be chuck in and as well a bit of sleaze . tacky exploitation that doesn not get gritty enough and the death be quite laughable . a clumsy script be fill convoluted detail and unbearable trite . simon nuchtern spotty direction be by the number and tepidly lay out . one or two intense scene can not makeup for it tortoise like pace and many cack hand stunt . the cardboard set have down n dirty look and but lack that organic sense . the gravel like cinematography by gerald feil be well handle when the main focus wasn not on the town and but on the desolate backdrop ( like the beginning and end climax of the film ) with some neat camera touch . pino donaggio clunky music choice be drown out by it own incompetence . savage dawn be a forgettable quickie midnight movie that a definite misfire for most part . there be good and more convincing exercise of the same ilk out there .