Too many fans seem to be blown away

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Breaker! Breaker! is not the the sort of movie that would ever be eligible for any kind of rewards consideration, but for what it is, it succeeds on its own merits. Breaker! Breaker! is a CB/ redneck trucker karate movie that is a good vehicle for Chuck Norris to show his fighting skills in his 1st leading role. Obviously riding the on the popularity of Smokey And The Bandit, The Dukes Of Hazard and Convoy. This drive in action movie is good entertainment for sure with awesomely bad acting, 70's redneck trucker stuff and Chuck Norris beating up a bunch of hillbillies with no chance who don't know who they are messing with. Breaker! Breaker! is hilarious and a lot of campy fun. While this is by no means the best Chuck Norris movie, you can certainly do much worse. It is a hard movie to take seriously, but if you enjoy the movie Convoy and like low budget karate movies, Breaker! Breaker! is for you good buddy. That is a big 10/4 , over and out.

IMDb's plot summary for Breaker! Breaker! Is short and sweet – "Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge." There's really not much more that needs to be said about the plot. Chuck Norris goes looking for his brother, discovers he disappeared in a backwoods town, kicks everyone in sight, calls his trucker buddies to bust up the buildings, rescues his bother. That's it. There are no twists or turns or other surprises. Breaker! Breaker! moves from point A to point B in the straightest line imaginable. If the writers spent more than 30 minutes on the script, they were wasting their time. For me, Breaker! Breaker! is predictable, silly, and not a lot of fun. Watching Breaker! Breaker!, it's difficult to believe that Norris would go on to have the film career he did. Other than kicking a few dudes, Norris doesn't offer much. He was never an award quality actor, but some of his films are at least entertaining. Even some of his early films are fun – I especially enjoy Silent Rage. I say this to point out that I'm not a hater – I just don't enjoy this movie. Two things that I did, however, enjoy were the performances of George Murdock and Jack Nance. Murdock's over-the-top portrayal of Judge Joshua Trimmings is one of the few highlights. And Jack Nance is always a lot of fun. It's a shame these guys are wasted in this turkey of a film.

Breaker! Breaker! Here we got Chuck Norris with his golden blonde hair flowing in the wind starring in his first leading role, where he's not only kicking ass (that's hillbilly ass), but driving a truck. That's a ten-four. "Breaker! Breaker!" is an ultra-cheap, b-grade action outing where marital arts meet spaghetti western… kind of. Well it has that operatic style in its clunky direction, like the outstanding climatic showdown. Close ups on the faces, slow-motion and a rousing score. One-sided, but powerful. Everything about this feature is daft (especially the truck convey to the rescue), but it doesn't seem to know that. Still it's rather amusing watching Norris in a small backwoods town causing a ruckus. Ultimate chaos! "Dukes of Hazards" chaos. Looks like all in a good days work. Easy work too. I don't think I ever saw him break a sweat, moving on from one encounter to another. What occurs it just so unhinged, if pedestrian. The story is threadbare, as trucker Billy Dawes disappears during his first solo run, so his older brother J.D sets out to find him. This leads J.D to a small remote community that's run by a corrupt judge who preys upon unsuspecting motorists. Simple, but fairly madcap with a comical air. The villains corn it up, as George Murdock goes over-the-top as the crazy judge. Norris looking good in double denim and black gloves goes about his business accordingly. Deadpan, but in what counts it's a marvel to see him in his element. Even when he's beaten up or wounding a gunshot. Nothing slows down this man on a mission. Of brotherly love. Then you got the southern hillbilly twang to the music score, you know that boot kicking stuff. An oddball, low-grade action Norris fare."I'm not going anywhere until I know where my brother is."

Saw this used DVD cheap, and got it for a chuckle. I had recently also found "The Octagon" on DVD and bought that one to reminisce, having seen it in the theatre as a pre-teen, and loving it at the time. The problem now with "going back" to these American karate films, is that I've since then seen so many Hong Kong and Thai action films, in which the fight scenes are long, fast and jaw-dropping. I'm thinking particularly of fights like Jackie and Benny "The Jet" at the end of "Dragons Forever", or Tony Jaa's circular-stairwell fight from "The Protector". The Hollywood kung-fu offerings are just not "filmed right", and even make someone of certified skill, such as Chuck, look awkward at times. And what's worse than a fight going into slow motion? Then you know it looked crappy at normal speed, so they slowed it down for effect. It really highlights how ridiculous an opponent looks as they stand and just WAIT to get kicked in the chest.Poor Chuck, he just has no intensity in this film, nor does he project any righteous menace. Compare that to his former co-star Bruce Lee, who had charm and attitude to burn. When Bruce would square off against some opponent(s) you could nearly see the air around him crackling with what was about to happen. In "Breaker, Breaker" Chuck seemed to accidentally be kicking people, with complete nonchalance. When the judge comes to see him in jail, and sentence him to death, Chuck is staring off with a sad look, and I thought "OK...he's doing that 'third eye' focus thing and is going to grab the judge by the throat and get out of this", but he does nothing except look up with a doe-eyed stare. Terrible. And while the DVD case gives you hope, listing a run time of 1 hour, 5 minutes, it's actually 1 hour, 25 minutes, so there's 20 more minutes of viewing pain. For great fight action, go watch Jackie Chan in the first "Police Story"....the fight in the shopping mall at the end is pure gold......