AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Scott LeBrun Delta Force colonel Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) and his super secret military unit The Delta Force are called back into action due to the activities of a ruthless cocaine kingpin named Ramon Cota (Billy Drago). Cota is well protected, and seemingly untouchable, making him a very arrogant adversary. His empire has just kidnapped a couple of Federal agents, including Scotts' associate Bobby Chavez (Paul Perri). Also along for the ride are a gung-ho general (John P. Ryan) and a young woman (Begonya Plaza) who wants revenge.Chuck and his filmmaker brother Aaron serve up more of the same in this sequel. It's got plenty of gunfire and explosions and enough of a body count (but not very much gore) to satisfy undemanding action genre fans. Having the enemy be a drug kingpin certainly does make the story topical. A lot of the characters are disposable types, but the actors all fit nicely into their roles. It does help to have old pros like Ryan ("Runaway Train") and Richard Jaeckel ("Grizzly") among the supporting cast. Ryan makes the most of the situation. Cast in one of his rare good-guy roles, he delivers a jovial performance and chews on the scenery a bit. Drago (Frank Nitti in the "Untouchables" feature film) once again offers a master class in supremely oily villainy. This creep is just pure evil, and can't die soon enough. People will also notice character actor Mark Margolis ('Breaking Bad', 'Better Call Saul') as a crooked general in league with Cota.What could have been a more interesting set piece, when Scott is required to scale a mountain in order to reach Cotas' lair, isn't as satisfying as it could have been, but at least it offers something fresh in an otherwise formula plot.Adequate pacing and a truly excellent, rousing score by Frederic Talgorn help to make this an agreeable diversion for action fans.Six out of 10.

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!

Paul Andrews Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection starts in Rio as DEA agent John Page (Richard Jaeckel) & his team prepare to arrest Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) the biggest drug dealer in the world, however Ramon has been tipped off & kills agent Page's team. With an informant in the DEA tipping Ramon off Page turns to General Taylor (John P. Ryan) to organise the arrest of Ramon using none DEA agents, Taylor turns to Delta Force men Colonal Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) & Major Bobby Chavez (Paul Perri) to bring Ramon in. McCoy & Chavez manage to arrest Ramon but he is given bail & flees back to his country San Carlos after killing Bobby's wife (Ruth de Sosa) in revenge, wanting revenge himself Bobby travels to San Carlos but Ramon captures him & kills him sending the tape to General Taylor. Outraged the President authorises an all out attack on the drug fields & factories in San Carlos with McCoy going in 48 hours early to pay Ramon a personal visit...Variously known under the the working titles Delta Force II, America's Red Army: Delta Force II, Delta Force II: Operation Crackdown & Spitfire: Delta Force II during it's production this was directed by Aaron Norris who had previously directed his elder brother Chuck in another sequel Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) & for my money is probably the best action film Chuck Norris ever made. It's quite surprising at just how much action there is in Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection with the last forty minutes in particular full of fights, shoot-outs, explosions, helicopter & car chases & general mayhem. From a story point of view Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is acceptable, the character's are alright with the slimy drug lord Ramon Cota one of the best villains around while the tit for tat revenge motives are familiar but make sense & it's fun watching lots of things get blown up. At over an hour & forty minutes long not much screen time is wasted with exposition, your never that far from the next shoot out or fight. Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is just a highly entertaining moderately budgeted action film that really delivers the good, they just don't make films like this anymore. Norris doesn't really have a team this time around, he's more of a loner here & there's little connection to the original The Delta Force (1986) other than having Norris in it.Set in the fictional country of San Carlos (so where's the Colombian connection as referenced in the title?) the lush green jungle scenery looks great, Cota's mountain top mansion is in fact the real life Palace in the Sky in Tagaytay city outside Manila in the Philippines originally built by First Lady Imelda Marcos (well she didn't build it personally, she paid for it to be built). Like Braddock: Missing in Action III there was an accident on set in which five crew members were killed when a helicopter crashed. The stunts are very good, there's a fantastic aerial stunt in which Norris has to catch a falling man who has no parachute, there's also a cool part when two people are dragged on rope by a helicopter through the forest. There are some really meaty explosions as lots of things are blown up, there's plenty of shoot-outs & fights & the occasional one-liner as well. Add some helicopter & car chases & stunts too & Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection really delivers the action.Filmed in Tennessee & the Philippines, this looks nice enough & is well made for this type of film. The acting is erratic, Norris is as wooden as usual, John P. Ryan has fun with the General but Billy Drago steals the show with his slimy drug lord character.Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is a great film, it's an action packed film with more story & better character's than usual & more importantly better action than a lot of fairly low budget action films. No crap CGI computer effects either, it's all real stunt work & real fake blood & it's all the better for it.

lost-in-limbo Let me put it forward. I didn't think all that much of the original, and that's exactly the same on this one. However for some enjoyable, light-headed entertainment it passed the buck for me, compared with the first outing. The two films couldn't be anything but different though. The first featured heavily on political terrorists, as this one plays out more like a comic-book revenge story with the drug cartel in his sights. Even though he's still apart of 'The Delta Force', this time Norris goes it alone, and tackles South American drug lords led by an impressively juicy and vicious Billy Drago bad guy performance of utter evilness and slime. Norris' personal, easy-going turn, is less mechanical to his first showing of the McCoy character.Now this one was full-throttle from the get-go, and looked like it had a sizable budget. The gritty action is furious, and at times unpleasant. Just look at some of those remarkably creative stunt works involving an intense rock climb and thrilling sky dive. Some of the potent camera work neatly dons some sharp angles, and works in the jungle locations to great effect. There are explosions. Big ones. Numerous ones. Norris is that hard to kill, that they use a grenade launcher to stop him. Alas with no prevail. And you gotta love the inter-cutting slow-motion. Aaron Norris (yep Chuck's brother) directs by throwing caution to the wind, and while it's not first-rate handling and freshly organised. He demonstrates enough to keep you watching, and lets it tick along. The material is the real weak point. The bloated screenplay is covered with coincidences, and dialogues are fairly leaden. The rest of the performances are a can of worms. John P Ryan gleefully hams it up as Gen. Taylor and Richard Jeckal skews in as a determined DEA Agent. The beautiful Begona Plaza is appealingly good too.I was expecting worse of this sequel. Pure tempo-laced b-action fun, where the cold stare of Drago steals the show.