Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

gavin6942 Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.Why this movie matters: Before "Billy Jack", movies contained at most brief references to martial arts, with fights portrayed by actors who had little training. With "Billy Jack", Han Bong Soo introduced authentic hapkido techniques to Western audiences. So there's that.But the film is bogged down by a weird hippie school and politics that nobody seems to understand (what is "violent pacifism"?). Interestingly, Delores Taylor received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcoming Actress. And yet, aside from the "Billy Jack" films, that promise was not followed through on.

spaz47 Okay, here we go. In this film Billy gets bitten by a rattlesnake a half dozen times and lives. He kicks the bad rich dude upside his head, makes the rich dude's kid drive a fancy Corvette into a lake, later killing him and two LEOs and goes to jail for it. He is driven off in a squad car with people standing along both sides of the road holding their arms up in the "power" salute while we hear the band "Coven" sing "One Tin Soldier," which is really catchy. We are still informed that Billy is an ex-Green Beret. I also liked this movie as Billy was a very charismatic character. However many things are left unexplained. Why is Billy now in Arizona, not California? Whatever happened to Vickie from "The Born Losers?" How does Billy figure out that Jean was raped by Benard? Why did Delores Taylor strip naked in the film? Was that really needed? Stay tuned, the best is yet to come. (Continued on "The Trial of Billy Jack.")

bkoganbing One of the great iconic movies of the 70s Billy Jack came out right at the beginning of the decade and resonated powerfully with audiences, especially the young. Tom Laughlin who originated the Billy Jack character in The Born Losers was so powerful in the part that audiences wouldn't see him as anything else afterward. An interesting victim of his own success.It all starts with young Julie Webb coming home after running away from her brutal father Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Tobey. She's now pregnant as a result of too much free love in the hippie culture of the times. When Tobey proves to be as brutal as before, Webb takes refuge at a school on the Indian reservation run by Delores Taylor.The reservation and its protector Billy Jack is where we are introduced to the title character. Bert Freed who is the local kingpin in the area has organized a hunt of mustangs on the reservation for some quick money from dog food companies. Never mind that A: he's trespassing and B: that the mustangs are protected by law, he's above the law. Freed's played some truly rotten specimens in his career, but in Billy Jack he's at his worst.And the third villain of the film is David Roya who is Freed's son and a real branch off the rotten tree. As Freed constantly puts his son down, Roya goes in for some depravity that even Freed might squirm with.Billy Jack in protecting his people and there way of life and others unable to protect themselves emerges as an old fashioned straight up hero in an increasingly complex world where the bad guys sometimes aren't recognized for what they are. Not in this film though, evil is plainly labeled.Taylor's school is some kind of progressive education dream. Today she'd be a charter school and probably find willing backers. At that time though she's worried that if Laughlin goes overboard the resulting backlash will hurt her school. She sacrifices a lot for that ideal.Billy Jack the movie is firmly rooted in the times it was made, but it still has an enormous appeal for today's audiences.

Claudio Carvalho The half-breed Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) lives in an Indian reservation protecting the Indians, the stallions and the students of the Freedom School, a peaceful art school run by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor) and where the students can choose their own destiny. When the teenage daughter of the corrupt Deputy Mike (Ken Tobey), Barbara (Julie Webb), is retrieved by Sheriff Cole (Clark Howat), she tells that she is pregnant and her father beats her up. Sheriff Cole and the local doctor (Victor Izay) ask Jean if she can lodge Barbara, she welcomes the traumatized teenager. But her father, together with the corrupt and powerful Mr. Stuart Posner (Bert Freed) and his coward son Bernard Posner (David Roya), initiate a campaign to damage the school reputation and humiliate the students while Billy Jack fight to control his temper against the bigotry and violence of the locals. But when he discovers what Bernard did to Jean, he has to use violence to defeat evil."Billy Jack" is one of those unforgettable cult-movies that belongs to my adolescence. I do not recall when I saw this movie for the first or last times, but I still love it. "Billy Jack" may be dated in 2013 but the Utopian non-violence, non-bigotry and non-racial segregation messages of the Freedom School are still beautiful. Unfortunately in the end peace is vanquished by violence. My vote is ten.Title (Brazil): "Billy Jack"