#The delta force 2 movie movie
Never before has a movie been so strictly routine, but there are some real cool action scenes and so much melodrama that it could fuel EastEnders for a decade. Killing Cota is not his mission, rescuing the DEA agents is, but you know that Cota is going to get what he deserves (with a little bit of slightly unsubtle philosophy from Norris). So he heads off to the fictional South American country of San Carlos for some mighty kicking-of-ass. More DEA agents are kidnapped and it's up to Chuck to rescue them from death. In a rare opportunity to catch him, Colonel Scott McCoy (the ever-bearded Chuck Norris) kidnaps Cota in mid-air and drags him into court only to watch him leave with virtually no charge. He kills DEA agents with unnatural glee, murders pregnant women, tortures people to death in a gas chamber, rapes women, murders their husbands, murders sick babies and uses their bodies to smuggle cocaine - you get the picture, this guy is lower than minus infinity. Cota is a Columbian drug lord, who ships massive amounts of cocaine into America. When eccentric bad guys are not hammy, they are Ramon Cota (a sickening performance by villain's villain of choice and villain of the week Billy Drago).
For a start, it has an unashamedly awful and truly despicable villain who oozes evil from every stinking orifice. Personally, I dig it.Īn unfortunate, misjudged and misunderstood film that could have been something great but only clings to the bottom-rung of respectability. Good movie? The answer's either "hell yes!" "good lord, no!" depending on who you are. To me personally, however, the line between these big budgeted action flicks and Chuck's is becoming thinner and thinner as time goes by (what at first seems like innovation soon becomes just another cliché as it is imitated by everyone everywhere, a la "The Matrix"). Compared to the big studio tentpole Summer blockbusters, all Norris films are like home movies. In comparison to the $100 million action epics, the acting in DF2 is stiff, the action too basic, and the story style outdated by decades. Is DF2 a good action film if your tastes run exclusively to higher budgeted, more elaborate action flicks like "Die Hard," the James Bond series, "Lethal Weapon," Tarrantino flicks and the like instead of lower budgeted action melodramas? Nah, no way in hell. Is DF2 a good film in the B-Action film genre as a whole? If by that we mean the Bronson/VanDamme/Segal level genre, then the answer is another resounding "yes!" DF2 is an excellent example of the kind of simple action flick that no one makes for theatrical release anymore. Like a John Wayne western, it just is what it freaking is. It doesn't try to be ironic, self-referential, a parody, or a "reimagining" of anything. DF2 pushes all the buttonspushes them in all the right spots and pushes them hard. Cliché can be very effective in movies if used properly (see "Rocky"). The story is clichéd and the characters are clichés personified, but I don't think that was an accident. (as a sidenote, this is very different from the early days Norris personaa basically peaceable karateman pushed into action, often the pursued instead of the pursuer sometimes he was mustachioed, sometimes his face was (gasp) naked.). He a man of few words who shoots a lot of big guns, narrowly escapes a lot of very big, very orange explosions, and doles out justice to the bad guys with no second thoughts. He's the superconfident, superbearded superman of action, tough and gruff but also noble and likable. For instance, is DF2 a bad film when compared with Norris' other films? Definitely not! This film is the pinnacle of the latter day Norris persona. Is it just because it's a sequel? Or is it because it was the film that came out just at the point when Chuck was transitioning from feature films to Direct-To-Video and Television? In fact, is it really a "bad" film at all? Well, yes and nodepending on what your expectations are. I'm not sure why "Delta Force 2" gets such a bad rap.
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