Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Kailansorac
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Ariella Broughton
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Lee Eisenberg
The string of blaxploitation movies continued with Jonathan Kaplan's "Truck Turner", starring Isaac Hayes as a football player looking for a bail-jumping pimp. The trailer proclaims HE MAKES A HEALTHY LIVING...BY MAKING LIVING UNHEALTHY! The movie has everything that you might expect in such a movie. What I thought was really neat was the cast. Aside from Hayes (known to later generations as Chef on "South Park"), there's Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on "Star Trek"), Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann in "The Shining"), and character actor Dick Miller, who often plays a character named Walter Paisley, but has also appeared in every one of Joe Dante's movies.All in all, a really fun flick.
jeremy3
I don't know if Isaac Hayes is more of a musician, who became an actor. However, he plays a really cool character, and the movie has a good message. The "bad guys" are black, white, and other ethnic groups, too. Truck Turner is not a bad man. He has a girlfriend who loves her cat. Truck Turner is cool with the cat, and the bad guys get the cat. That would make anyone mad. Truck Turner also has to win back his girlfriend, which is real life. His best friend is beaten up really badly, which is realistic. He has to dodge a lot of bullets. Hayes is a reluctant hero. He doesn't love fighting bad guys, but just can't give up, either. So, it is a fun, entertaining movie, that has a heart. I like that he is really a sensitive guy, who isn't just some caricature. He lives in the "real World", too. I also think that Yaphet Kotto is a highly underrated actor. His death scene was masterful.
lastliberal
Isaac Hayes is Truck Turner, a skip tracer. He, and his partner Jerry (Alan Weeks) go after a sleazy pimp and end up killing him. Now, the pimp's babe (Nichelle Nichols - Star Trek) is after Truck. She's offering half her $250,000 annual income from her girls. Hey, it's the early 70s. That's a lot of money! Like all blaxploitation with pimps, this one has some fantastic outfits on both men and women - some really bitchin cars, too.Yaphet Kotto is the biggest pimp out to get truck. You can expect a lot of shooting before this is settled.Kotto should have been given an Academy Award for his death scene. :-)
MartinHafer
This is a better than average so-called "blaxploitation" film about a bounty hunter named Truck Turner (Isaac Hayes). When he and his partner are trying to bring in a pimp after he jumped bail, the pimp tries to shoot Turner and Turner has no choice but to shoot him. However, he never anticipated that the pimp's woman (Nichelle Nichols) was a total psycho and she put a contract out on Turner. The rest of the film consists of various hoods (most notably Yahpet Kotto) trying to kill Turner.This is a pretty exciting film and is well directed, written and acted--making this very unusual for the genre. Most blaxploitation films have horrible production values and are best seen as "guilty pleasures"--this film stands well on its own and doesn't suffer from many of the clichés you'd normally find in one of these films.One of the more interesting reasons to see the movie is to see Nichols in a non-Star Trek role. Here, she is 100% different from Lt. Uruhu, as she's a very filthy mouthed and angry lady indeed!! She's intensely nasty--and one of the most despicable women you'd ever see in a blaxploitation film! While this film is far from high art and not exactly subtle, if you are looking for a 1970s Black-American themed action picture, it's hard to do much better than this one.
