The Trial of Billy Jack

1974

Action / Drama / Music / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 47% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 1660 1.7K

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Plot summary

After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The utopian existence of the school is characterized by everything ranging from "yoga sports" to muckracking journalism. The diverse student population airs scathing political exposes on their privately owned television station. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism. Billy Jack is released and things heat up for the school. Students are threatened and abused and the Native Americans in the neighboring village are taunted and mistreated. After Billy Jack undergoes a vision quest, the governor and the police plot to permanently put an end to their liberal shenanigans, leaving it up to Billy Jack to save the day.

Director

Tom Laughlin Photo
Tom Laughlin

Top cast

Chuck Hicks Photo
Chuck Hicks as Prison Guard
Tom Laughlin Photo
Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack
Jim Storm Photo
Jim Storm as Lieutenant
Nick Ferrari Photo
Nick Ferrari as Captain
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2 hr 50 min
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English 2.0
PG
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2 hr 50 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

Pretentious sequel picks up with Billy Jack being

Pretentious sequel picks up with Billy Jack being put on trial for the events of the first film. The original film was a surprisingly fun hybrid of 1960s counter culture and grindhouse exploitation cinema. Kind of âEasy Riderâ? meets âWalking Tall.â? A lot of the fun of that film was the unintentional irony that Billy Jack was promoting peace & love while giving a beatdown to every intolerant bigot he encounters, but this sequel forgot to include the satisfying Hapkido beatdowns and instead seemed filled with joyless self-important speeches. While I support most all of the political leanings expressed by the filmmakers, a series of hippie kids making speeches and playing terrible folk music does not make for good entertainment (not to mention having to endure Billyâ(TM)s spirit journey which includes him slapping Jesus at one point). Top it all off with a Kent State inspired finale and itâ(TM)s pretty obvious that the filmmakers (who are really just writer/producer/director/star Tom Laughlin) forgot what made the first film work. Overall, Billy Jackâ(TM)s literal and spiritual trials are boring, pretentious, and minus any good beatdowns. Just take a pass on this one. FUN FACT! âThe Trial of Billy Jackâ? was included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

I may have only been a tyke during

I may have only been a tyke during the time the "Billy Jack" movies came out, but I knew adults who had recent memories of that era as I grew up-and were unimpressed by the movies. As for me, the original "Billy Jack" had some merit, but this one simply repeats itself over and over and over and over ad infinitum. The actual trial of Billy Jack only lasts a few minutes, and he spends four years in jail, but when he comes back, well...that's when the tedium kicks in full swing. The Freedom School has prospered to the point where it even has its own TV station, and the local Indians host them. The local rednecks cause them trouble, and Billy Jack arrives, and *KICK* *PUNCH* *CHOP*. Not once, but many times over. Since the school exposes national and local corruption, the townspeople are upset and want it closed down. (Like there are no liberal townies, or ones who despise local corruption?) The school is evidently run by hippies who look suspiciously clean, and the leftists are all nice intelligent people while anyone not allied with them are one-dimensional thugs. The most laughable part is near the end when the National Guard comes in and they start cold-blooded shooting at the members of the Freedom School, despite the lack of any justification, and then the local Indians arrive and the leader makes a speech, at which the National Guardsmen abruptly stop shooting and walk away. Yes, there were the controversial National Guard shootings at Kent State University and such, but really... Yes, this movie has its apologists, but Michael Moore's movies place a lot less strain on credulity than this load of balderdash.
Reviewed by R T 5 / 10

Oh jeez... Well that was at least an

Oh jeez... Well that was at least an hour too long. More heavy-handed hippy drama. There's a good message in here and a few great moments, but it gets lost in boring sequences that drag out way too long, and the message loses its punch when it seems even Billy Jack can't figure out himself what choice to make between violence and peace...
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