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The Delta Force
USA / Israel 1986
produced by Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus, Richard M. Greenberg (executive) for Cannon
directed by Menahem Golan
starring Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster, Lainie Kazan, George Kennedy, Hanna Schygulla, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn, Shelley Winters, William Wallace, Charles Grant, Steve James, Kim Delaney, Jerry Weinstock, Marvin Freedman, Bob Levit, Chelli Goldenberg, Chris Ellia, Jerry Lazarus, Natalie Roth, Jerry Hyman, Gael Lehrer, Hank Leininger, Howard Jackson, Eric Norris, Zipora Peled, Aaron Kaplan, Caroline Langford, Yehuda Efroni, David Menachem, Shaike Ophir, Avi Loziah, Uri Gavriel, Panos Nicolaou, Elki Jacobs, Menahem Einy, Assi Dayan, Jacques Cohen, Adib Jahschan, Haim Sirafi, Mosko Alkalai, Larry Price, Susan Ophir, Jack Messinger, Janet Harshman, Ezra Kafri, Danny Friedman, Richard Selano, Andy Shulman, Joe Sapel, Richard Peterson, Eugene Klein, Albert Amar, Ben Ami Shmueli, Moti Shirin, Yitzhak Aloni, Boaz Ofri, Albert Iluz, Osnat Vishinski, David Leshnik
written by James Bruner, Menahem Golan, music by Alan Silvestri
Delta Force
review by Mike Haberfelner
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In 1980, the Delta Force under Colonel Nick Alexander (Lee
Marvin) has failed to free the American hostages in Tehran and has only
just made it out of the country alive themselves. The Force's top man
McCoy (Chuck Norris) has since quit the force to run a horse farm. Now
it's 1985, and terrorists of the Iran-backed New World Revolutionary
Organization led by Abdul (Robert Forster) hijack a plane on its way from
Cairo to Athens that's full of American passengers and force her to land
in Beirut. There they separate the Jewish passengers from the others to
... not sure what. Of course, top brass general Woodbridge (Robert Vaughn)
sends in the Delta Force, and when McCoy gets wind of the hijack on the
TV, he's quick to rejoin the Force, too, and it's off to Lebanon where the
American boys take out the hijackers with little resistance, and
ultimately it's up to Chuck Norris (on a motorbike equipped with rocket
launchers no less) to duke it out with Abdul personally and ultimately
blow him to Kingdom Come ... Now there are no two ways about it, The Delta Force
is rather crude propaganda and its anti-Muslim stance is despicable not
only from today's point of view. At the same time, this is a rather
decently put together action flick made on the (at least for low budget
production powerhouse
Cannon) rather
decent budget of $12 million and the cast is nothing short of stellar,
with Bo Svenson playing the hijacked airplane's captain, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder muse Hanna Schygulla a stewardess, and the passenger list
including such names as Martin Balsam, George Kennedy, Shelley Winders and
Susan Strasberg. The ultimate sum of all of this is routine action that's
either cringeworthy or ridiculous for its political leanings, depending on
your sense of humour, and pretty hilarious for all the wrong reasons when
it comes to its action scenes, which are well enough handled but too
over-the-top to be taken seriously. On the story side, the film, despite
all the political undercurrents, is formulaic as can be and ultimately
litte more than a showcase for Chuck Norris, even if he barely shows up in
the first half of the film. And ultimately all of this amounts to typical
80s action fare that sure is worth a cuckle - if you can get over certain
quite natural reservations.
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