Breaker! Breaker! (1977)

Sick Product of a Sick System

Sadly Over-hyped

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Dumb bit of business that has some value as an unintentional comedy but nothing else. Chuck Norris stars as a high-kicking truck driver out to find his little brother, who ran into trouble in a hick town in California run by a cartoon villain. This really could have been fun but, sadly, it's not. The script is full of tired clichés and cardboard characters. The production values are so cheap it looks like it was made for television. The town where the bulk of the movie takes place appears to be one of those old western sets from the silent movie days. I doubt there's more than ten nails holding up the whole place. The climax involving a convoy of truckers demolishing the town is pretty unimpressive since a good gust of wind would've done the trick. Chuck gets to do some arm wrestling, barroom brawling, lovemaking, and, of course, kicking. Speaking of which, the fight scenes are nothing to brag about. The highlight of the movie is the corny montage of Chuck and his girlfriend walking and talking while some cheesy song plays. This is really a stinker. It was obviously meant to cash in on the short-lived trucker and CB craze of the '70s, one of the most baffling fads ever. Like I said before, some fun could have been had here but this is just a slog to get through.

If you paid money for this movie, you got stuck. "Plan Nine From Outer Space" the worst movie ever? Maybe until this one came along. Semi trucks never seen on pavement? Weird. Usually they drive on major roads, not the set of some dirt movie ranch. I know. They was just trying to cash in on the C.B. radio craze. This movie is bad. A real stinkeroo. Chuck sucked. Poor retarded Arnie seemed to be the best actor in it. I like it when he dies: "I'm mad at you." (his brother accidentally shot him) He then closes his eyes and says, "It's getting' dark." I'm sorry. I laughed my...I laughed. An Acadamy Award nominated scene it wasn't. Oh, the humanity! This movie was on last night. I KNOW it sucks, yet I watched it from start to finish. Why? I'm just a glutton for punishment. Lots of bloopers. An extensive off road chase with huge clouds of dust. Chuck gets away and goes to some broads house. Close up shows not a speck of dust on a freshly washed and waxed van. Check out when the trick van drives through a barn wall or fence. The wood is cardboard. When the town gets destroyed not one building has much more than plywood. Some were just a single false-front wall! Building codes in "Texas City"? Nope. Just trash. Like the movie. A great "UpChuck Inducer".

The only thing I remember about this piece of "feces" is a bunch of truckers destroy a town, which isn't so much a town as it is a really, really bad set. And the final fight takes 15 minutes 21 seconds because it's all in slow motion... I think Norris might end up making out with his kid brother at the end. If you're into male-oriented trucker fantasy, look no further. Or if you like really bad movies, which is my case, then you've found yourself a feces-encrusted rusted-out-Chevy-Nova of a film. I'm definitely not into the male-oriented trucker fantasy genre... I'm not! Stop , I'm telling the truth! (soon you will be mine, J.D. Dawes) Cut it out! Stop reading my text so knowingly. (soon Dawes, very soon...) (you've been a bad boy, Dawes...) Honestly, this movie sucked.(soon, Dawes. so soon...)

Breaker! Breaker! is the kind of mindless action film that fans of the genre have grown to love. The plot was thin, the acting even thinner, but what the movie excelled in was fast paced stunts and neck-cracking roundhouse kicks - the kind of kicks that only Chuck Norris can deliver. Breaker! Breaker! doesn't take itself seriously and it's not supposed to. It's meant to be a movie you went and watched at the drive-in with a girl on one arm and a cold beer in the other. If you watch this movie intent on solid plot and character development, then you're going to be in for a rude awakening. It's meant to entertain and amuse you for 90 minutes and thats all, and it accomplishes that fairly well.