Gary Arnold, writing for The Washington Post panned Billy Jack as 'horrendously self-righteous and devious', explaining: 'Every social issue is dramatized in terms of absolute, apolitical good and evil. Crude and sensational yet urgent and pertinent, this provocative Warners release is in its unique, awkward way one of the year's important pictures.'
Kevin Thomas, in the Los Angeles Times, also liked Billy Jack, praising its 'searing tension that sustains it through careening unevenness to a smash finish. Frank and Teresa Christina is incredibly awful." Variety magazine opined that 'the action frequently drags' and at nearly two hours' running length, 'The message is rammed down the spectators' throats and is sorely in need of considerable editing to tell a straightforward story.' Gene Siskel gave Billy Jack 3.5 stars out of 4, calling it 'a film that tries to say too many things in too many ways within an adequate story line, but it has such freshness, original humor and compassion that one is frequently moved to genuine emotion'. Billy Jack seems to be saying the same thing as Born Losers that a gun is better than a constitution in the enforcement of justice.' Howard Thompson, writing for The New York Times agreed, calling the film 'well-aimed but misguided' as he wrote: 'For a picture that preaches pacifism, Billy Jack seems fascinated by its violence, of which it is full.' He added that 'some of the non-professional delivery of lines in the script by Mr.
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In his Movie and Video Guide, film critic Leonard Maltin gave Billy Jack 1.5 stars out of 4, writing: 'Seen today, its politics are highly questionable, and its 'message' of peace looks ridiculous, considering the amount of violence in the film.' Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 and also saw the message of the film as self-contradictory, writing: 'I'm also somewhat disturbed by the central theme of the movie.
As Billy is driven away in handcuffs, a large crowd of supporters raise their fists as a show of defiance and support.īilly Jack holds a 'Fresh' rating of 63% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews, with an average grade of 5.37/10. After a climactic shootout with the police and pleading from Jean, Billy Jack surrenders to the authorities in exchange for a decade-long guarantee that the school will be allowed to continue to run with Jean as its head. Billy confronts Bernard, whom he catches in bed with a 13-year-old girl, and sustains a gunshot wound before killing him with a hand strike to the throat. Later, Jean is raped by Bernard, who also murders a Native American student. Following an incident involving Jean, Billy gives Bernard a choice of either receiving a dislocated elbow, or driving his Corvette into the lake Bernard does the latter. Meanwhile, Barbara loses her unborn child, when the horse she was riding stumbles on a rock, causing her to fall off the horse. Billy goes through a Navajo initiation where he gets bitten purposely by a deadly rattlesnake, so that he would become the blood brother to the snake, which he does survive. This prompts a violent outburst by Billy. One of the troubled youths is a girl named Barbara, who became pregnant and was abused by her father.Ī group of children of various races from the school go to town for ice cream and are refused service and then abused and humiliated by Bernard Posner (David Roya), the son of the county's corrupt political boss ( Bert Freed), and his gang. The school is organized by its director, Jean Roberts ( Delores Taylor). Jack defends the hippie-themed Freedom School (inspired by Prescott College) and students from townspeople who do not understand or like the counterculture students. Billy Jack is a " mixed-race" Navajo, a Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, and a hapkido master.
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