Three black Vietnam veterans return to their home town in the South only to discover that a local chapter of the Klu Klux Klan is terrorizing the community. The trio decide to stand up to these vile racist scumbags by getting the oppressed black locals registered as voters.
Writer/director Billy Berry relates the enjoyable and engrossing story at a snappy pace, nicely captures a strong feeling of righteous fury and indignation, offers a flavorsome evocation of the rural setting, and delivers some exciting action in the last third. Pro football players Le Tari, Haskell V. Anderson, and Roy Jefferson make for likeable leads while both Ron David and Brian Donohue are appropriately loathsome as a couple of hateful bigoted jerks. The right-on funky theme song "Get Off Your High Horse" hits the get-down groovy spot. While rough around the edges (for example, the scenes in Vietnam go on for a bit too long as well as look like they were shot in someone's backyard), this film overall sizes up as a pretty cool little flick.
Writer/director Billy Berry relates the enjoyable and engrossing story at a snappy pace, nicely captures a strong feeling of righteous fury and indignation, offers a flavorsome evocation of the rural setting, and delivers some exciting action in the last third. Pro football players Le Tari, Haskell V. Anderson, and Roy Jefferson make for likeable leads while both Ron David and Brian Donohue are appropriately loathsome as a couple of hateful bigoted jerks. The right-on funky theme song "Get Off Your High Horse" hits the get-down groovy spot. While rough around the edges (for example, the scenes in Vietnam go on for a bit too long as well as look like they were shot in someone's backyard), this film overall sizes up as a pretty cool little flick.