Chuck Norris, without his mustache, plays a trucker whose little brother goes missing in a corrupt town. Norris gets too invested in the town's fuckery and must kickbox his way out of peril. There are two conclusions to the movie: first, Norris's trucker pals wreck the town (as seen in the poster) and then, Norris personally fights one of the town deputies in slo-mo in a horse corral. The latter doesn't make a lot of sense, as the deputy was a minor foe at best, but he was the youngest and strappingest of the loose group of antagonists, so, there we go.
This is pretty dumb, with all kinds of surreal scenes (Norris arm-wrestles a guy in a truck stop, a human Kewpie doll giggles at her dolls while smoking, a car crusher flattens a car with no significance and Norris cries out "No!"). It's trying to be a trucker movie but it doesn't do a very good job, and it isn't pointed enough toward comedy to be a hillbilly movie. Trucking is basically a frame for the story of Norris trying to defeat everyone in this toxic hillbilly burg. He does drive a conversion van with a golden eagle painted on it, and even beds a woman inside it. But the vast middle of the movie doesn't even have CB exchanges.
It's filler, this movie, with exceedingly minor charms. I do recommend the Rifftrax of Breaker! Breaker!. It enhances the movie's weird and risible qualities and takes away some of the feeling of wasting the viewer's time.
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