Its script merely soft-pedals it by putting this terse assessment of the drug problem into the mouth of the corrupt defense minister of the fictional South American country of San Carlos, where most of the action takes place. Thus, it surely can be said of the drug war that we have met the enemy and they are us.ĭELTA FORCE 2 doesn't ignore this irony. So much as a nickel being allocated for promotion or advertising. Here is a commodity on which billions of American dollars are spent every year without ![]() But now the Wall is history, and the communist world is busily taking on a capitalist sheen. The Berlin Wall, after all, wasn't built to keep people out. Nobody ever had to convince American moviegoers thatĬommunism was bad. ![]() Battles that were once fought over ideology are now fought over drugs. And what was it all for? To present theaters and video stores with yet anotherīoneheaded action epic noteworthy mostly for its shift of American right-wing political paranoia away from the Soviet Union and on to the Third World. After a flurry of lawsuits and amid depressingly familiar accusations of inadequate safety on the set, the film's stunt coordinator, Dean Ferrandini, was voted out of the International Stunt Association. There is a good film here, desperate to get out, but you have to claw your way through to find it.What would America do without enemies? Or, more to the point, what would American movies do without enemies? For one thing, the five people killed in a helicopter crash during the making of DELTA FORCE 2 might still be alive (the crash also seriously injured costars John Ryan and Mateo If the rest of the movie was as good as this, then everything would be different. The single spot-on aspect of the enterprise has to be the strong and rousing musical score by Frederick Talgorn. But hey, it worked for Stallone with John Rambo. Ryan certainly did wrap himself in the American flag for this character. Ryan), a character so relentless gung-ho and over-the-top that he really should be in a pantomime, is McCoy's boss and he enjoys himself way too much when he tags along on the mission to blow away zillions of nameless henchman from a helicopter that is so indestructible and equipped with a never-ending supply of ammo you wonder why the REAL Delta Force doesn't use this thing over in Afghanistan. And beating up the new Delta Force recruits to train them in the deadly arts is just bizarre. For a man who moves at 48 frames per second he sure does lay waste to thousands of Drago's henchman very well. It's a shame Delta Force 2 isn't hyper-kinetic, because the slo-mo becomes very noticeable.Ĭhuck Norris' methods are also highly questionable. The main problem with the direction is that Aaron Norris uses the logic, "If it is in slow motion, then it is cool." He wants to drag out every bloody detail, every death dance and every penetration of every bullet. The action ranges from Norris flying through the sky, swinging through the jungle, falling off cliffs and dodging rockets. Instead plot holes, illogical moments and a general feel of immaturity bog it down. If someone other than Chuck's brother had made this, we would have a hugely enjoyable film on our hands. ![]() The direction leaves a lot to be desired. 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. When eccentric bad guys are not hammy, they are Ramon Cota (a sickening performance by villain of the week Billy Drago).Ĭota is a Columbian drug lord, who ships massive amounts of cocaine into America. For a start, it has an unashamedly awful and truly despicable villain who oozes evil from every orifice. An unfortunate, misjudged and misunderstood film that could have been something great but only clings to the bottom-rung of respectability.
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