I've seen the first two BILLY JACK films(THE BORN LOSERS and BILLY JACK) numerous times over the years and love them dearly so I figured it was time to check out the last two sequels in the series even though I've never really heard much good about them. This 3rd film is super preachy right from the start and tries to be a commentary on the Kent State shooting and killing off student protestors there as well as other violent killings of the 60s and early 70s. The message of non-violent pacifism is also really strong which seems really incongruent with what has been a pretty violent series of exploitation films so far. In fact this one may be one of the most violent of the whole series with hippies and even children being gunned down by the military. Of course this is all to teach us the deep philosophical lesson that violence is bad! I can see why being stuck in the idealistic 60s while the more dour 70s creeped on may have been the reason this film was not much of a success at the time and it seems even more out of place watching it on modern times. Also the close to 2 hour runtime doesn't help at all!
The next film(BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON) makes the terrible decision to amp up the politics and greatly reduce the violent aspects making this movie look better by comparison.
Long-ass trailer but it's also a long-ass movie!:
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