Twilightfa
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
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!
Aaron1375
This movie has very little in common with the first movie, the only real connection between the two is Chuck Norris is in both of them. That and the movie does involve the Delta Force once again. It is also a very unmemorable movie as there are very few scenes in this one that I can recall. While I remember the older movie Delta Force almost entirely and I did not exactly watch that one a whole lot more. One of the few scenes that I even remember is the scene involving the Delta Force doing a sky jump with the drug lord and the fact this film had a bit of a similar plot to the James Bond film "License to Kill", however that film is superior to this one as I can remember a lot about that one too. I do not remember this one being particularly horrible or anything, I just remember it not being as good as the original and that I got a bit bored during this film, another thing that did not occur during the first film. In the end I think it is just one of those sequels that uses the success of the first film to try and market an almost unrelated film. Like this one was supposed to have Chuck in some sort of drug task force, but they thought they could get some more bucks by making it a sequel to the Delta Force movie.
Peter Grunbaum
I'm a big fan of Chuck Norris, and I really enjoyed this movie a lot. However, it is mostly the scenes with Chuck that actually works. I think there is too much violence in this movie. However, Chuck is really a powerful martial artist, and we see a lot of great martial arts techniques in this movie. It is no wonder than Bruce lee trained a lot with Chuck. Both of them are the real thing when it comes to martial arts, and their movies are a powerful display of their art. I thought many of the scenes in this particular movie were a bit stupid, however, it is an OK sequel, and it does make sense sort of. There's some great stunt scenes also, and, all things being equal, it is a great action-movie.