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very weak, unfortunately

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This could be taken so offensively. It is a really trashy racist film. There is a revenge theme but it is not satisfying. They really don't make enough of the revenge. You want the revenge to be more savage than the previous torture. This is never realised and it just babbles along shouting racial slurs. It is intensely offensive but ultimately unsatisfying in the revenge/justice department.

What do you get when you cross a Chinaman, a Mexican, a white man, and an African American baptist family in the deep south??? You get FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, the most outrageous, over the top, and politically incorrect 70's flick ever! This gets permanently filed in my "Movies With Balls" category. White trash racist loser Jesse Lee Kane (played to perfection by William Sanderson) breaks out of jail with the help of two buddies and takes the unsuspecting black family hostage while subjecting them to sickening acts of violence and humiliation. Eventually, Kane goes off the deep end, and the family gets the upper hand for an all out onslaught of bloody vengeance! Its all done with that classic grind house exploitation style and humor. This movie is considered as one of the most offensive films ever made, and it is completely outlawed in the U.K. It can be compared to "Last House on The Left", but it dives much deeper into sensitive waters. Kane's racial slurs and downright meanness are enough to make the average viewer shut this off. Combine that with rape, the bashing of a child's head with a rock, and all sorts of verbal abuse and slander, and you will never remove this film from your sub-conscious. The acting is superb. William Sanderson and Robert Judd are perfectly paired up as opposites in the good vs. evil showdown, and rest of the cast has a lot of fun being naughty and uninhibited. (the grandmother is hilarious). All adding up to a surprising and satisfying ending, the events of this film will either offend audiences or entertain! Either way, its the best of both extremes, and that is what the exploitation genre is all about!

This video nasty was banned outright in Britain and has yet to be accepted.No wonder! It is so full of racial epithets that I heard one or two that I didn't know.A trio of convicts - one white, on Hispanic, and one Asian - take over a black family hope on the run after breaking away from the police.The white one Jesse Lee (William Sanderson) spends all his time spewing racial remarks and humiliating the family. The three even rape the daughter (Yvonne Ross).But, paybacks are hell, as they just didn't have anything without their weapons. Daddy (Robert Judd) gets the upper hand and they wish the law would get there to save them.Not as bloody as most nasties, this was offensive because of the racial overtones.

I enjoy movies. They just have to be entertaining. This movie might be shocking to you if the only movies you've seen were after-school specials. The scenes are not that vile or outrageous either, which is both shocking and sad for this kind of movie. As I watched, I waited for something interesting to happen, only to see the most predictable scenes acted out by the worst possible actors. Dialog, plot, acting, isn't really B movie material, its just shoddy. After a while of watching you realize this is all there is and you can't help but feel a little cheated. It might have helped they made an attempt at a plot that made sense, or better yet actually did something with the characters. I saw this movie expecting a revenge film and got some director's attempt at trying out his camera angles. I could probably watch two cows chewing grass for an hour and half, and came back with more than this gunk.