
Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the Democratic bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figu... (Full plot summary below)
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Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the Democratic bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and prejudices.
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| The New YorkerPauline KaelThere are a lot of things in Billy Jack that are seriously conceived and very well-handled. Some of the scenes at the school, for example, with real kids experimenting with psychodrama, are interesting. Some of the action scenes are first-rate. But the movie has as many causes in it as a year's run of the New Republic. |
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniAs a movie Billy Jack is kind of exasperating since there is so much good and bad all mixed together. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie has as many causes in it as a year's run of the New Republic. There's not a single contemporary issue, from ecology to gun control, that's not covered. |
| The DissolveNathan RabinBilly Jack is a film of violent contradictions. It is a fortysomething über-square’s tribute to the promise and potential of the hippies, as well as an intensely violent homage to non-violence. |
| The New York TimesHoward ThompsonThe whole picture nicely conveys a Southwestern atmosphere. But much too often, at the cost of plain credibility, it stacks its cards, characters and even credo like any rootin', tootin' Western. |
| Village VoiceStuart ByronBilly Jack is the nicest surprise of the year, and my own feeling is that it ranks among the top half-dozen American films so far in 1971. |
| User ReviewOliver WGreat film with good martial art scenes, long live Billy Jack the Indian. |
| User ReviewEcho RHas a really good story everybody should watch it |
| User ReviewSundown TLoved this movie then and things haven't changed all these 30 years later. Sad fact, but true. |
| User ReviewMark AMy favorite on many levels. This movie made me think about standing up for my beliefs. It also made me think about Native Americans a lot. |