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He’s a warrior, a mystic, a martyr, capturing the heart and soul of a generation. Embodying all these and more, Billy Jack quickly became one of the most unorthodox and magnetic movie heroes of all time. Tom Laughlin charismatically plays the title character, a half-breed Native American and ex-Green Beret returning to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the progressive Freedom School â€" and the idealistic woman (Delores Taylor) who runs it. But when tensions flare between the students and narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school’s protector. Once again, violence finds him. First released with little fanfare and dismissed by most critics, the film’s gut honesty struck a chord with audiences, who later made it a box-office giant â€" and a landmark film of its era.
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Last updated: August 10, 2009, 3:49 am
Billy Jack Cusomter reviews:
Average Rating: 4.0 Total Reviews: 167
(Donald Newton, 2009-10-25) I loved the movie but gave the blu ray a rating of 1 because the studio was too cheap to include sub-titles. Some of us who were around when the movie was first released may not have all of our hearing intact. Is it too much to ask of a transfer-to-blu ray to have subtitles? I will not purchase it and cannot reccomend it to anyone.
(SORE EYES, 2009-10-24) Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin)is a half-breed American/Cherokee with a slightly shady background as a Green Beret and hapkido master. Billy Jack has returned to his native reservation to protect it from the local "good ol' boys" which threaten to exploit the reservation's resources and shut down the counterculture high school which operatres on reservation territory. The movie opens with a dramatic scene of wild horses being corralled into a make-shift pen while one of the locals shoots them in a "canned hunt" so he can sell the horse meat. The scene is an analogy for the themes of corruption and injustice that pervade the film. I was six when I first watched Billy Jack as a late night rerun on a ten inch TV screen. The remastered DVD with dolby sound and widescreen are a vast improvement on my original viewing experience. Billy Jack might seem a little laughable now, but it was a huge blockbuster in it's time. It can be emotionally manipulative, self-righteous, and too politically correct. But it is interesting to watch and consider the incredible influence in had on 70's popular culture. Billy Jack's black hat with a bead headband and black t-shirt were as popular in the 1970's as James Dean's white t-shirt with rolled sleeves was after Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition) in the 1950's. We've come a long way as an audience. After watching Billy Jack you'll think we've probably lost a little too much our innocence and naivete. Laughlin is charasmatic and nice to watch on screen. His wife, Delores Taylor, plays the leader of the school. Her pacifism in the face of a brutal rape on the grounds that "it's for the kids" will make modern feminists cringe.
(Anonymous, 2009-10-11) I love this movie! I actually saw this when it was first released in the U.K and haven't seen it since then. Every issue explored in the movie at the time is still relevant today, maybe the race and colour of skin is different but people are still being displaced and marginalised, nothing much has really changed, sad to say.A terrifically controversial movie in it's day and today.A classic.
(Spyderblonde, 2009-09-12) We had recently heard the song "One Tin Soldier" while riding in the car with our young adult children. That brought up the Billy Jack subject so we turned to Amazon to see if we could get the DVD. As usual, Amazon did not disappoint us. Our children did find the movie interesting and it prompted dialog about movies then and now. It was definitely worth a view for us and we will watch it again when we have 'our generation' friends over.
(Jason Pumphrey, 2009-08-21) I'm so glad that Image Entertainment is releasing "Billy Jack" on Blu-ray. This is an all-time classic. I will be picking this up come release day! Hopefully if this sells good they will release a multi disc Blu-ray set with all 4 BJ films, until then will have this great Blu-ray to enjoy!