Truck Turner (1974)

Very best movie i ever watch

Sorry, this movie sucks

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie ever!

"Truck Turner" is probably my favorite blaxploitation flick. All the genre's tropes are here, and it's just an entertaining movie. Car chases, shootouts, characters both cool and slimy, it's got 'em all. Isaac Hayes is awesome casting in the lead role, dude just exudes tough and he brings some great personality. And Yaphet Kotto's gotta be one of the most memorable pimps in screen history. Same for trash-talking Nichelle Nichols. Oh man, she's just something that's gotta be seen to be believed. Kotto and Hayes are no slouches, but Nichols steals the movie. 8/10

"Mac 'Truck' Turner" (Isaac Hayes) and "Jerry" (Alan Weeks) are two modern-day bounty hunters who have just accepted the difficult task of bringing a dangerous pimp by the name of "Gator" (Paul Harris) back into custody. Unfortunately, things don't exactly go as planned and Gator's business manager, "Dorinda" (Nichelle Nichols) offers her entire stable of working girls to whoever can kill Truck Turner. Suddenly, all of Gator's competitors—to include an especially mean one by the name of "Harvard Blue" (Yaphet Kotto)—leap at the opportunity to increase their profit margins. Anyway, as far as "blaxploitation" films are concerned this is probably one of the better ones out there. It has plenty of action spiced with typical jargon and good performances by several actors to include Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols (who is best known for her role as "Uhura" in the Star Trek series). Surprisingly though, it doesn't have that much sex or nudity. Additionally, some of the scenes were a bit too unrealistic. Still, if a person enjoys movies of this genre then I believe they will certainly like this one as well. Slightly above average.

A bounty hunter, Mack Truck Turner(Isaac Hayes)has a contract out on him by Dorinda(Nichelle Nichols, in a role bound to shock folks who know her as Ohura on STAR TREK), the vengeance seeking broad whose pimp daddy was murdered by him in self defense. Her fellow pimps across the city decide to take her up on that offer, but they aren't so lucky because Truck is hard to kill, and smarter than all of them(..that plus these hoodlums are all lousy shots because once they have aim, fire, and miss, Truck's taking them out). Harvard Blue(Yaphet Kotto), a sadistic pimp with quite a reputation, offers Dorinda his services for most of her prostitution business and hires assassins to target Truck, seriously hurting his boss and killing his bounty hunter partner. Soon Blue and his cronies themselves become the prey and Trucker the predator with a lot of dead bodies left after the dust settles.Tailor made vehicle for Isaac Hayes, getting a terrific role as a nearly unstoppable bad ass with an unglamorous career chasing down pedophiles, rapists, junkies and pimps(..along with Alan Weeks as his partner Jerry)for bond claimer Nate Dinwiddie(Sam Laws). I LOVED how the camera lens stretches the nose of Truck's gun giving the weapon a very intimidating look you just know is gonna cause some damage to the scum shot at.What a great cast of black actors! Yaphet Kotto is as intense and charismatic as Hayes, and what a finale in the hospital! Nichols as the vehement head hunter wanting Turner's death sure surprises(..just watch the scene where she scolds her whores who challenge her credibility as a proper pimp madame or how Nichols insults her male colleagues demeaning their manhood out of fear regarding Truck)in how she conducts herself towards those she has contempt for. I'd hate to not mention Weeks as Turner's buddy and fellow hunter whose life is constantly threatened due to the dangerous job(..and being associated with Turner)..he has some of the best lines and delivers them with pitch perfect accuracy. And Annazette Chase as Annie, Turner's thief girlfriend who can not seem to stay out of prison(..very amusing sequence has Turner setting the poor girl up for shoplifting out of fear for her safety!). Other amusing cameos from Scatman Crothers(..as a retired pimp with a hairpiece!), John Carpenter vet Charles Cyphers(..as a drunk!)and Dick Miller as a lawyer who often pays for Turner and Jerry's services.Lots of attitude, "colorful"(..often hilarious)street language, the gritty environment of New York City, and extreme graphic violence featuring plenty of bullets & blood. Solid entry in the blacksploitation genre.

Carrying around a 44 Magnum that was probably bought at the same place Dirty Harry Callahan bought his, Isaac Hayes essays the role of Truck Turner, former pro-football player turned skip tracer. Hayes is not too squeamish about what he has to do to bring back a given quarry and along with partner Alan Weeks, being a skip tracer he's not bound by the rules that Clint Eastwood has to live by as a cop.My best recollection of Isaac Hayes is as the jail house friend of James Garner in The Rockford Files. Gandolf Fitch was a man of few words and a very short fuse and next to him, Truck Turner is positively garrulous. The first part of the film is almost lighthearted in nature as we see Hayes and Weeks go about their jobs and we Hayes's relationship with girlfriend Anazette Chase. She's a nice woman, but an incurable shoplifter that Hayes constantly has to bail out and pay the fines or the merchandise for. The end of the first half though concludes with a car chase to rival Bullitt in which Weeks is wounded and their skip trace, a pimp played by Paul Harris is killed.After this the film changes mood so abruptly it's like watching a second film. Harris's woman and partner Nichelle Nichols wants Hayes dead and will pay anything for it and brings in a whole bunch of business competitors led by Yaphett Kotto to do the job. The second half of the film is a serious of gunfights, climaxed by a blazing shootout in a hospital.For those who remember Nichelle Nichols as the nice Lieutenant Uhura forever with that earpiece and trying to open channels on the starship Enterprise, you won't recognize the murderous fury that's in this character played by the same woman. She steals the film from Hayes in every scene she's in. I would not want her on my case.Truck Turner is a good action film with an astonishing portrayal from Nichelle Nichols. Star Trek fans might want to check this one out.