That was an excellent one.

Perfect cast and a good story

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

"Mac 'Truck' Turner" (Isaac Hayes) and "Jerry" (Alan Weeks) are two modern-day bounty hunters who have just accepted the difficult task of bringing a dangerous pimp by the name of "Gator" (Paul Harris) back into custody. Unfortunately, things don't exactly go as planned and Gator's business manager, "Dorinda" (Nichelle Nichols) offers her entire stable of working girls to whoever can kill Truck Turner. Suddenly, all of Gator's competitors—to include an especially mean one by the name of "Harvard Blue" (Yaphet Kotto)—leap at the opportunity to increase their profit margins. Anyway, as far as "blaxploitation" films are concerned this is probably one of the better ones out there. It has plenty of action spiced with typical jargon and good performances by several actors to include Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols (who is best known for her role as "Uhura" in the Star Trek series). Surprisingly though, it doesn't have that much sex or nudity. Additionally, some of the scenes were a bit too unrealistic. Still, if a person enjoys movies of this genre then I believe they will certainly like this one as well. Slightly above average.

The string of blaxploitation movies continued with Jonathan Kaplan's "Truck Turner", starring Isaac Hayes as a football player looking for a bail-jumping pimp. The trailer proclaims HE MAKES A HEALTHY LIVING...BY MAKING LIVING UNHEALTHY! The movie has everything that you might expect in such a movie. What I thought was really neat was the cast. Aside from Hayes (known to later generations as Chef on "South Park"), there's Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on "Star Trek"), Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann in "The Shining"), and character actor Dick Miller, who often plays a character named Walter Paisley, but has also appeared in every one of Joe Dante's movies.All in all, a really fun flick.

Isaac Hayes is Truck Turner, a skip tracer. He, and his partner Jerry (Alan Weeks) go after a sleazy pimp and end up killing him. Now, the pimp's babe (Nichelle Nichols - Star Trek) is after Truck. She's offering half her $250,000 annual income from her girls. Hey, it's the early 70s. That's a lot of money! Like all blaxploitation with pimps, this one has some fantastic outfits on both men and women - some really bitchin cars, too.Yaphet Kotto is the biggest pimp out to get truck. You can expect a lot of shooting before this is settled.Kotto should have been given an Academy Award for his death scene. :-)

***SPOILERS*** Very probably the best of the many black-exploitation movies to come out of the turbulent 1970's "Truck Turner" has it all and a bit more in it's star Isaac Hayes as the rough and tumble and take no BS Mac Truck Turner. A man you don't mess with if you intend to go on living and enjoying life in one piece.Doing the dangerous work of tracking down criminals who jumped bail skip tracers, slang for bail bondsmen, Turner and his partner Jerry, Alen Weeks, are given the unenviable job of bringing in vicious pimp Gator Johnson, Paul Harris, by bailsman Fogarty, Dick Miller. As things work out Gator ends up getting wasted by Turner as he, after giving himself up, attempted to gun him and his partner Jerry down. Jerry having his back turned is attacked and stabbed from behind by Gator's main squeeze the blond and big busted Stalingrad Crude, Amalik Borel, who ends up getting put to sleep by a Turner straight right to the kisser. The late Gator's partner Madam Dorinda, Michelle Nichols, mad as hell for Turner icing Gator has a hit-or insurance contract-put out on the bail bondsman offering her entire stable of high class hookers to the person who rubs him out. This sets the stage for an all out war between Truck Turner and the pimp establishment on the West Coast. Who despite their many differences ally themselves against a common cause or threat to their business ventures: Mac Truck Turner!Isaac Hayes is at his absolute best as the take no prisoners and leaved them hurting Truck Turner as he battles it out with an army of pimps and their paid hit-men in the streets and suburbs of Southern California. Not being able to make any ground against Turner as he frustrates her at every turn Madam Dorinda is forced to accepted Harvard Blue's, Yaphet Kotto, offer to put him away for good if he get's the majority share of her very successful prostitution business. It was Blue who had at first put a hit out on Dorinda's parter and boyfriend Gator after he stole his woman Stalingrad Crude from right under him. The fact that Turner got to Gator before Blue did didn't make Dorinda any happier or forgiving. Now with the entire pimp population dead or on the run, courtesy of Mac Truck Turner, it's up to the hated, by Dorinda, Harvard Blue to do the job of finishing Turner off. Before he ends up making the West Coast pimp industry, including Dorinda and Blue, as extinct as the Dodo Bird!***SPOILERS*** Unbelievable ending sequence with a mad as hell Truck Turner having it out with Blue and his hoods at a major L.A Medical Center. Not caring at all who gets hurt, among the sick dying and those being operated on, Blue and his boys storm the building in order to get Turner who's visiting a friend bailsman Nate Dinwiddle, Sam Laws. It's Nate who was put their in critical condition in order to get Turner, in visiting him, out into the open by Blue's and Madam Dorinda's henchmen. Not wasting any time or bullets Turner puts an end to Blue's career in the pimp business by blasting him and his boys to kingdom come in the aforementioned hospital shoot-out. Still not finished Turner finally confronts the person who stated this bloodbath the now ready to check out of town Madam Dorinda at her mansion with her troop of hookers on the verge of mutiny. Not falling for Dorinda's sweet talk Turnner, unlike his now murdered partner Jerry, keeps his eyes on her, even with his back turned, thus preventing her from doing him it! With a .44 caliber slug to the mid-section!