Breaker! Breaker!

1977 "A town without justice. A hero without fear."
4.3| 1h26m| PG| en
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Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Ensofter Overrated and overhyped
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
ehrldawg A truck driver searches for his missing brother.The only thing to say about this movie is thats its a Chuck Norris movie. Enough said!!Evan though,this movie has one of the best lines in cinema. When Norris defeats The Polish Angel, The Angel says "Thats no fair,he was trying to hypnotize me. So,this movie begs the question,could Norris take on Stallone in an arm wrestling match?Chuck Norris and Micheal Augeastine drives the Kenworth 18 wheeler.Chuck Norris and Micheal Augeastine are permanent A list actors.Deborah Shore and Terry O Conner are hot!!!erldwgstruckermovies.com
lost-in-limbo 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."
microfame 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......
chuck-reilly Directed by third-rate schlock artist Don Hulette, the 1977 Chuck Norris film "Breaker! Breaker!" doesn't do its future star any favors. The script is moronic, the cinematography is amateurish and the acting, with the exception of veteran George Murdock, is uniformly terrible. The plot is something out of a drunken CBer's nightmare. Chuck's little brother (played by Michael Augenstein) is abducted while driving his truck through a small lawless Texas town (called "Texas City"). The judge (Murdock) and his police force of goons control the town and make money off of wayward strangers who pass through. The whole town is in cahoots with them and it seems everyone who resides there is either a complete idiot or just plain criminally insane. When old Chuck drops in to investigate his brother's whereabouts, he's soon battling the entire population. That's no problem for our hero, however. After administering a few karate kicks to the groins of these morons, Chuck is well on his way to solving the mystery. The highlight (if one could call it that) of this nonsense is when Chuck's fellow truckers come rambling through Texas City and level the place once and for all. What took them so long?Norris went on to big and better things after this turkey and his acting, although still a bit wooden for most tastes, improved "dramatically" over time. Murdock, a well-seasoned and respected character actor, must have needed a paycheck really bad to involve himself in this mess of a movie. For viewing audiences, the pain of sitting through this abomination is at least mercifully short (less than 90 minutes). I'm sure Mr. Norris has buried this one in his vault---and sealed it shut.