Billy Jack

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Joshua M One of my favorite movies. There are parts that are archaic and really show it's age but personally I like how it's a bit rough around the edges. It was an indi film after all. The age old battle of good and evil, comedy, hippies, music, Kung Fu, horses. What's not to love. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/25 Full Review Michael S Billy Jack is one of those feel good movies with plenty of action. A creation of director Tom Laughlin, it's become a cult classic. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/06/23 Full Review karen c I absolutely love Billy Jack, he fought for the little guy. The ones who get kicked around and have no voice. I also feel this movie is why I grew up to be so compassionate to others. I also learned respect for the land and animals. It must have been a time in my life where it had such a deep impact. Thank you for that gift. I am a much kinder, and caring human thanks to this movie, and Tom Laughlin and his wife's vision. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/10/23 Full Review Audience Member I've watched some stinkers in my day (among them "Flesh-Eating Mothers" and "Chopper Chicks in ZombieTown") and enjoyed a good laugh. This putrefaction wasn't even laughable. I sort of wish I had watched it back in the late '70s when all my high-school friends were raving about it but alas...I thought maybe it would still be good even today. What was I smoking? It's a bit easier to understand this after reading so many reviews…and realizing that Tom Laughable, er.... Laughlin did everything himself. It would be a crying shame to think that there were an actual GROUP of people who thought this merited ever being produced. Save yourself a couple hours and don't bother with this smelly thing. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Disillusioned half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack comes back home to Arizona and what does he find? Several people illegally hunting on Indian land. And to make matters worse, one of them is the local sheriff, so the law no longer applies, and Billy decides that he must take it into his own hands. Not that the sheriff really matters-the real boss of the town is the local millionaire and his spoiled bully son. But there's more. There's a set of hippies near the town who have set up a Freedom School on the same Indian land (with permission), and occasionally they go into town to do street theater and other antics. The locals dislike them and the local rednecks harass them, and as pacifists they cannot fight back on principle. So Billy Jack comes as the great cowboy hero, punching out the local rednecks whenever they cause the hippies trouble. Things get worse when one redneck rapes one of the hippies. She tries to hide it from Billy Jack, knowing what he will do, but he finds out anyway, and despite the hippies' insistence, he shoots the rapist dead, and holes up in a church, ready to die fighting. But a lawman with better integrity comes up and Billy Jack surrenders to the law, the hippies raising their fists in a power salute as he is taken away. I was a tyke when this film was made, so I don't remember the era, but those who have do, and they laughed at the suspiciously clean hippies and the idea they were just harmless goofs who were unjustly bullied. Real-life hippies were neither clean nor harmless, and the dislike for them not so unjustified. "Billy Jack" is a period piece, but doesn't show the era as it really was. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Kenneth Tobey is The Number One! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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