The Bicycle Thief

They steal a bike from a guy and then he tries to steal one

Review by Kevin M., from North Hollywood, CA, on 16-Jun-2009

The Bicycle Thief is an alright of a movie. It was boring throughout the entire movie. But I say that it was alright because of the little kid that played as the role of the son of the main actor. I really liked how he played the role or how the role made him act. The movie was about a man who has a wife and a little boy. He doesn’t have a job. When he finds a job, they tell him that he has to have a bicycle. He tells the person that gave him a job that his bicycle is ruined and that he could walk until he got a bike. They tell him that he has to have a bicycle or he can’t have the job. He tells him that he would get a bike. So he goes to the store and buys a bike. He takes the bike home and his son is all excited. He cleans the bike very good and that same day the dad goes to leave him at school riding the bike. The guy goes to work and his job is putting up posters. He carries around a ladder so he could reach higher places. He stops to put a poster up and he is on the ladder. A guy comes and steals his bike and the he is yelling to let people know that the guy was a robber. He doesn’t catch up with the thief so the thief gets away with the bike. He goes to a friend and asks for help. His friend helps him look for it. The whole next day they go to different stores looking for the bike in pieces because they thought that the guy would have taken it apart by now. That whole day, they didn’t find it. So the next day he and his son go looking for the bike. They found a guy that looked like the thief. They run after him but he gets away. They go to the person that the thief was talking to. The guy goes to a church and they followed him there. They ask him questions and at the end they get the answer to where the guy lives. They told him that he would take them there but the guy gets away. The dad tells his son to wait for him by the lake. The dad goes to look for the guy and he hears people screaming saying that a boy was drowning. He runs to see who it was and while he was running, he was yelling his son’s name. But it wasn’t his son, it was someone else. He sees his son take off his jacket, put it on his arm and sit on a stair. I really like that part because the looks very innocent and it looks nice when a little kid knows how to act. They don’t find either of the guys and the dad is getting very frustrated. He tells his son to go home and the dad steals a bike but he gets caught. The son didn’t catch the bus to go home and he sees his dad get caught. He starts crying and they let him go because of his son. The little kid acted very well in this movie.