He’s got the same quiet approach to asskicking, the same I’m-a-pacifist-but-I-guess-if-you’re-gonna-be-that-way Badass persona. Laughlin plays Finley, who is alot like Billy Jack – he even wears a similar hat in the opening scene. And since it’s a Tom Laughlin picture it touches on that whole genocide thing that generally is swept under the rug or given a whitewash in westerns. What really makes it stand out from other westerns is a great scenario with a sense of moral outrage but also a good motivation for the villains. If you like the Billy Jack movies, which you do, you oughta like this. Now first of all let me say that I checked the reviews on IMDB (a sight I defeated roundly in the Cinemarati Best Film-Related Web Sight 2001 competition I might add) and they all seem to hate it. It is about to come out on video and I think dvd for the first time ever. It’s a western, but with much of the cornball liberal action movie tone I loved about the BILLY JACK pictures. He wrote it under a pseudonym and apparently the director is his son Frank. Now some of you may know, but I sure didn’t, that Tom Laughlin made one non-Billy Jack movie after the success of BILLY JACK. Unfortunately Jeremiah is no longer able to send me free porno dvds, but he has more than made up for that unfortunate situation by sending me this very enjoyable obscurity in Badass Cinema. First of all I gotta thank my man with a plan Jeremiah for sending me a screener of this movie.
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