Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Sarentrol Masterful Cinema

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Predrag Where to begin commenting on Delta Force 2? For a start, it has an unashamedly awful and truly despicable villain who oozes pure evil from every stinking orifice. When eccentric bad guys are not hammy, they are Ramon Cota (a sickening performance by Billy Drago). Cota is a Colombian drug lord, who ships massive amounts of cocaine into America. He kills DEA agents with unnatural glee, murders pregnant women, rapes women, murders their husbands, murders sick babies and uses their bodies to smuggle cocaine, he has a chamber of death in his living room with large viewing window for his pleasure. Make no mistake kiddies, this guy is lower than minus infinity. I am surprised that he didn't go further and start killing the Queen, the Pope, Mother Theresa, and Jesus himself just to prove how evil he was.The action ranges from Norris flying through the sky, swinging through the jungle, falling off cliffs and dodging rockets. Director Aaron Norris drags out every bloody detail, every death dance, and every penetration of every bullet with loads of slow motion. Cota has about 40 million armed guards (I am honestly not kidding) which provide plenty of fodder for the gunship and McCoy's smaller hand- held weapons. Keeping a tally on the body count would be virtually impossible. Another common criticism is the lack of personality for the Delta Force team themselves. I feel that this is a bit unfair. McCoy's immediate subordinate, Major Anderson, disappears near the end of the film as Geof Brewer died in a helicopter crash during production, which killed 4 others and seriously injured co-actors John P. Ryan and Mateo Gomez. It's a shame as he was rather likable. If you want brainless 80's action-fest (in spirit, not quite date of production) jungle mayhem, then look no further because I would certainly put this in Norris' top ten.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

Marton Forrai Let's not kid ourselves, this movie is plain awful. I watched it first, then the 1st one just recently. While the first Delta Force movie takes a curve to emotionally powerful scenes (like the selection of Jews on the plane or the beating to death of the American Navy diver) before blending into your so-expected 'American soldiers kick the Hell out of terrorists' routine this one fails to make the viewer care for its blunt manipulation. Hell, even Bloodsport managed to make me root for Van Damme when his best friend got ripped into two to take down the bad guy, but not Delta Force, because a) it was trying too hard to move the plot along without having a half-decent storyline b) the production value was so low and the acting was so bad for the most part that it was just begging for a downing review. Then again, Aaron Norris did direct this flick, his brother must have believed in Family Values above all else, right? Good for you Chuck, for believing in family. Too bad the Norris family failed to convince anybody else that they had a decent action package formed from the first movies' production team. And I did miss Silvestri's memorable themes above all else! Don't get me wrong, this movie is just rightfully in place as your Sunday afternoon mind killer on TV, but is a completely letdown as a Delta Force sequel.

Comeuppance Reviews The DEA is hot on the trail of Ramon Cota (Drago) - an extremely evil (and extremely rich) drug lord. He controls whole Colombian towns with threats, murder, and intimidation. DEA agent John Page (Jaeckel) is in over his head, so he calls in the best - Col. Scott McCoy (Norris) - to help take down Cota once and for all. When Cota attacks the wrong people - people close to McCoy - things become personal and McCoy brings all the force he has to bring down Cota and his organization.Sure, Chuck Norris has no emotion but there is none needed. At least he can do martial arts, unlike other emotionless actors like Kip Pardue and Ryan O'Neal. They have no physical skills, range, OR screen presence. So if one of those three choices have to be sacrificed, at least for action cinema, you can lose the emotional range. On the other end of the spectrum, in a career of playing villains, this is one of Billy Drago's best. He's sinister and menacing, as he usually is, but his portrayal of Cota is scary and downright sadistic. Drago did a great job once again.John P. Ryan gives an energetic (some might say over the top) performance as General Taylor, and he makes some priceless faces along the way. This role could have been played by Dennis Hopper or even Terence Stamp, but Ryan gives it some extra, A-Team-like wackiness. Also it should be noted that an evil General (isn't there always an evil General?) that's working with Cota, Gen. Olmedo (Margolis) looks exactly like nutty politician Ron Paul. It's really funny every time he pops up on screen in his General's uniform, because anyone's first instinct would be to yell "That's Ron Paul!" It would have been nice to see more members of the Delta Force team from the first film, especially Steve James. He was probably busy working on a Dudikoff film at this time. (Actually, both men were slated to be in an early incarnation of this film). And once behind "enemy lines", trying to attack Cota's stronghold in "San Carlos", the action becomes very dumb. Let's not forget Aaron Norris directed this particular Cannon production.While this movie was shot in large part in the Philippines, that great filming haven for action movies, the plot becomes dangerously close to an "El Presidente" movie. (Please see our review for ??? where we coin the term and explain what it is, if you don't already know). Perhaps needlessly taking a cue from the first Delta Force film, this sequel is unnecessarily long. There's no reason for that. But the training sequence and Chuck-Fu are what make this movie worth seeing, when you get right down to it.Featuring the song "Winds of Change" by Lee Greenwood, Delta Force 2 isn't a life-changer, but it's a good entry in Chuck's canon.

Leofwine_draca DELTA FORCE 2 was one of the first Chuck Norris movies I ever watched and it's stayed with me: a silly, completely OTT B-movie full of gunfire, explosions and cheap and cheerful special effects work. I recently revisited the movie on DVD, and I was pleased to find it still holds up to this day as one of the star's most simple yet entertaining films.I still haven't seen the original film, not that that matters: DELTA FORCE 2 is a standalone outing concerning a soldier's battles to take out a Colombian drug lord responsible for the death of his friend. There's nothing more to it than that, and much of the film is clearly modelled on the likes of Schwarzenegger's COMMANDO and Stallone's RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2. It's nowhere near as good as either of those, thanks to the lower budget, but it still packs a punch.Norris is in his element. He's hulking, tough, good looking and a nice guy with it. The type of hero it's easy to root for. He roundhouse kicks the bad guys, jumps through windows, breaks limbs and metes out punishment to both enemy soldiers and the new recruits unlucky enough to be placed under his charge. He also adds in a few quips here and there, which always helps.Opposite Norris, Billy Drago stars in what is still one of his most memorable roles as an utterly slimy drug baron. Drago is outrageously evil in this film, truly hissable. I won't spoil the ending, but let's just say it's the perfect pay-off for his character. Alongside Norris, we get John P. Ryan (IT'S ALIVE), chewing up the scenery a treat as the flag-waving general. Pretty Begona Plaza is thrown into the mix, just because there aren't any other women around.What follows is a mix of the usual action/hero type scenes: Chuck scales an impassable cliff, Chuck kills some henchmen, there's a helicopter battle and lots of jeeps being blown up. Plus, of course, the shoot-out in a jungle village, one of those stock scenes that just had to be every jungle action film of the 1980s (the only thing missing is a prison camp complete with guard tower). It's all lively and amusing, even if we had already seen it all before throughout the '80s, so my advice is to kick back and enjoy – without criticising too much!