My Take: Cheesy, mindless and entertaining in a laughable manner.
After reading a couple of reviews and seeing it's neat-looking video cover, I decided to watch "The Delta Force".After watching, I didn't get all that I expected. Well, it does have the hard-hitting action, but it lacks the drama from the all-star supporting cast, including Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, Lainie Kazan and Susan Strasberg. I expected that since the film has an stellar supporting cast (like a disaster film), I expected it to have a dramatic turn. But since this is Hollywood, and it has Chuck Norris on top-billing, it just has to end with good ol' Chuck kicking some Lebanese terrorists' butt!
But as it turned out,"The Delta Force" is corny, cheesy 80's action entry with lots of cheese poured over it. Chuck Norris is not the one-army he usually is. He teams up with Lee Marvin, and the results are really compelling. The formula of two, although not always as effective as the Gibson-Glover partnership in "Lethal Weapon", is fun to look at. The first half is the only real thing you can take seriously as some of the depictions of hijacking, one-minded as it is, is actually frighteningly realistic. The second-half was all-out cheesy that it should come with crackers. Alan Silvestri completes the lunacy with his cheesy 80's score that you might find yourself humming after you see it. Don't be so surprised.
Rating: ** out of 5.
After reading a couple of reviews and seeing it's neat-looking video cover, I decided to watch "The Delta Force".After watching, I didn't get all that I expected. Well, it does have the hard-hitting action, but it lacks the drama from the all-star supporting cast, including Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, Lainie Kazan and Susan Strasberg. I expected that since the film has an stellar supporting cast (like a disaster film), I expected it to have a dramatic turn. But since this is Hollywood, and it has Chuck Norris on top-billing, it just has to end with good ol' Chuck kicking some Lebanese terrorists' butt!
But as it turned out,"The Delta Force" is corny, cheesy 80's action entry with lots of cheese poured over it. Chuck Norris is not the one-army he usually is. He teams up with Lee Marvin, and the results are really compelling. The formula of two, although not always as effective as the Gibson-Glover partnership in "Lethal Weapon", is fun to look at. The first half is the only real thing you can take seriously as some of the depictions of hijacking, one-minded as it is, is actually frighteningly realistic. The second-half was all-out cheesy that it should come with crackers. Alan Silvestri completes the lunacy with his cheesy 80's score that you might find yourself humming after you see it. Don't be so surprised.
Rating: ** out of 5.