646f9e108c Blaxploitation film about a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in Los Angeles. Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator&#39;s woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck. The man who agrees to kill Truck is named Blue. The question is whether Truck can survive with Blue and his gang on his trail. Isaac Hayes provides whole new dimensions to the term &quot;Coolness&quot; in his own and first Blaxploitation highlight &quot;Truck Turner&quot; (not counting the Italian Blaxploitation-Crime thriller crossover &quot;Three Tough Guys&quot;). Prior to this movie Hayes was only knownthe performer of the legendary Shaft theme, but God bless the person who came up with the idea of giving him his very own movie-franchise! Hayes is brilliant and much cooler &amp; tougher than all the other Blaxploitation heroes together, in my humble opinion. If I were to be stuck in a dark alley late at night, I would rather run into a combination of Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson and Jim Brown than facing the gigantically postured and naturally petrifying Hayes. The plot of &quot;Truck Turner&quot; is rudimentary but nevertheless engaging and literally stuffed with awesome characters, witty comical undertones and phenomenal action sequences. I truly adore how each and every character that walks through the screen, even including Truck and his lovely wife, is a bit of a &quot;badass&quot; and living on the edge of the law him/herself. Mack &#39;Truck&#39; Turner is a former football player who now worksa feared bounty hunter since an injury ruined his career. Truck loves his wife, even though she&#39;s a recidivist shoplifter and all the women in the neighborhood crave him, and there isn&#39;t a single thug on the streets who doesn&#39;t fear and respects him. Together with his partner Jerry he&#39;s tailing the fugitive big shot pimp Gator, but when the latter gets killed during a spontaneous bust, all hell breaks loose. Gator&#39;s main bi-atch Dorinda (Nichelle Nichols, acting like the black version of Ilsa Harem keeper of the Oil Sheiks) gathers all the city&#39;s most prominent pimps and promises the ownership of all her top-class prostitutes to whoever succeeds in killing Truck. Seeing the main story lines are so thin, &quot;Truck Turner&quot; mostly benefices from its &#39;shoot first ask questions later&#39; action sequences, the splendid soundtrack and multiple stellar performances. Hayes receives great support from Yaphet Kotto (as a really creepy super-pimp), Alan Weeks (as the sidekick) and Sam Laws (as their employer). There are also excellent cameos for prominent B-actors like Scatman Crothers and Dick Miller. The violent climax in the hospital is simply awesome and has an original and tense anti-climax. Another downright brilliant and unforgettable scene takes place during the pimp&#39;s funeral. Pure 70&#39;s goodness! Truck Turner (Issac Hayes) is a former football star turned bounty hunter. His latest case puts him on the trail of a notoriously vicious pimp named Gator. Though it&#39;s not his original intention, Turner kills Gator during a gunfight. This is when all hell breaks loose in Turner&#39;s life. It seems that Gator&#39;s main woman, Dorinda (Nichelle Nichols), isn&#39;t too happy about losing her man. She offers Gator&#39;s girls and the cash they can bring in to the pimp who can bring her the head of Truck Turner.<br/><br/>Issac Hayes may be more of a singer than an actor, butTruck Turner, he&#39;s incredible. Hayes is one cool cat! Whether it&#39;s chasing baddies across a rooftop, pulling out that cannon of a gun he carries, or driving in a high speed chase, Hayes pulls it all off and is believable every step of the way. The film also manages to mix some very nice comedy into all the action. Gator&#39;s funeral scene is a scream and real highlight of the film. As you might expect, Hayes did the soundtrack. While the music may not bememorablewhat he did for Shaft, it&#39;s still nothing short of phenomenal. Hayes is joined by a very solid group of co-stars including wonderful performances by Yaphet Kotto (as the mega-pimp Harvard Blue), Alan Weeks (as Turner&#39;s partner Jerry), and Annazette Chase (in the small but pivotal role of Turner&#39;s girlfriend). Kotto&#39;s always a favorite of mine, but I was justimpressed by the work of the &quot;unknowns&quot;. But the real stand-out in the cast is Nichelle Nichols. What a woman! Who knew she had that kind of performance in her? Watching her slapping around whores is a long way from Commander Uhuru on Star Trek.
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