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I LOVE THIS MOVIE !!!
"Delta Force" is a classic of the Action/Adventure genre. Karate champ Chuck Norris has been in some pretty cool movies, like "Lone Wolf McQuaid" and "Missing in Action," but this is probably his best one. He's also been in some really crummy ones - the other day I watched a Chuck Norris movie called "Firewalker," and boy was it lame! Anyway, back to "Delta Force." As I was saying, it's a really cool movie. The plot is nothig creative: Norris plays a commando on the trail of a group of Palestinian terorrists who have hijacked a plane. What makes the story so great is that it is grounded in reality. For example, in the beginning of the movie we find Chuck and his Delta Force buddies trying to escape from Iran after a botched attempt to rescue the Ameriocan hostages bveing held there. As you probably know, this episode actually happened in real life (minus Mr. Norris, of course). Another thing that makes it great is the way it shows Middle Eastern terrorists as cruel, Jew-hating cowards, which they in fact are. These days, movies have to be politically correct when they are dealing with Middle Easterners. Actually, I haven't seen a movie since 9/11 that even deals with Middle Eastern terrorists. Bad guys in action movies nowadays have to be white boys so that Middle Easterners will not be offended. In Tom Clancy's book "The Sum of all Fears," the terrorists were Arabs, but when they made the movie they changed them into neo-Nazis. Fortunately, "Delta Force" was made long before all this PC stuff materialized.
As for the action scenes, I think that they can be summed up with the two words "Totally Awesome." "Delta Force" has not only action, buts lots of drama. The acting is very good - alright, so it's nothing that should have been nominated for an Oscar, but it's much better that you would expect. The actors and actersses manage to create scenes that are chilling, adrenaline pumping, and heartbreaking. Chuck Norris plays the hero really well, the dudes that play the terrorists do that really well, but I must say that the hostages steal the show.
So, that's what I think of "Delta Force," and I don't care if anyone tells me that it is corny or overly-patriotic. It's great to see Delta force kicking the butts of the wimpy terrorists, especially after 9/11. Thank you to Amazon.com for offering "Delta Force," thank you to Chuck Norris for doing a cool movie, and thank you to the real-life members of Delta Force for defending the USA.

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As American As Apple Pie
Who do you call when arab terrorists(led by the white Robert Forster) hijack a plane and threaten the American way of life? You call the Delta Force, coz they'll make mincemeat out of those heathen hijackers! Yes, those saints at Cannon give us one of the most butt kickin', finger lickin', chicken pickin' action flickins of the 80s. The first half of the film is actually quite well done and suspenseful as we watch the events unfold on the hijacked airplane. After the plane lands and the Delta Force makes it's move, we're thrown headfirst into CannonLand, where the blood and carnage flow like wine. Chuck Norris is his invincible self, taking out whoever gets in his path with guns, fists and a motorcycle equipped with a built in machine gun(a Cannon favorite coz this ridiculous contraption pops up in other Cannon films). Lee Marvin kinda hangs back and directs the rescue, but soon becomes quite the butt kicker himself. If you missed it the first time around(which is impossible if you have TNT), it's not too late! Keep the bad action movie alive.

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Good in it's day, inappropriot now
"Delta Force" stars Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as senior officers of the Army's special forces group. They are called into action when an American commercial airliner is hi-jacked by Middle Eastern terrorists. "Delta Force" has spawned many sequals over the years, but this is by far the best. That is not, however, saying a lot. After recent events in America, this movie looks extreamly racist by depicting all Arabs as complicient in terrorism. I know that it was a completly different time when it was made, but you still can't ever forget current events. Taken as an action movie, it isn't bad, a lot of testosterone being splashed around, but that was a big thing in the 80s. The action scenes were very good, the best part of the movie. It looks like to me it was cast with two different movies in mind. The two tough guy leads (who work very well with and off each other) are Chuck Norris (who is actually at his best 'Norrisian' acting, just a notch above, say, David Hassolhoff, though not as bad as he would become on "Walker, Texas Ranger"), Lee Marvin (basiclly re doing his role from "The Dirty Dozen", but otherwise pretty spry for 80. Won't the Army let him retire?), and Bo Svenson (Svenson, well, you know what you're getting, at least he dosn't have that huge baseball bat this time) who are, for better or worse, action stars. And then you have the almost laughable cast of Goerge Kennedy (actually not too bad this time around, reminding me he was really good in "Cool Hand Luke") and Shelly Winters (guess they ignored the plane's weight limit) who are most known for their disaster movies. I wasn't sure if the Army was going to rescue them, or if a granade was going to go off while the plane was in flight. Anyway, this movie really suffers from post 9/11 American attitudes towards Middle Easterns right now, I think too many people are going to think that the cardboard villians are acurate portreyments of Arabs.