Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)

hyped garbage

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Routine action movie that has next-to-nothing in common with the great Delta Force. It does, however, have a tour-de-force performance by Billy Drago as a ruthless Colombian (!) drug lord. Chuck Norris reprises the role of Scott McCoy from the first film, who is tasked with bringing down Drago and saving America from drugs. Pretty standard action movie plot. There are also some unintended laughs. For example, there's the scene where Chuck's buddy has just discovered his wife and brother dead. He falls to his knees and screams in the most melodramatic way possible, making sure all those acting classes counted for something. I couldn't help but be reminded of McBain from The Simpsons screaming "Mendoza!!!!" over the dead body of his friend. This is pretty cheesy stuff but die-hard Chuck fans will be more forgiving than most.

Michael Dudikoff and Steve James , the "American ninja" duo was at one point attached to the film, before it was given to Norris. Chuck wasn't happy with the screenplay , but needed the money so he made this movie. He still dislikes the final product. Lee Marvin was going to reprise his role in this sequel to 1986 "Delta force" , but sadly he passed away in 1987. It's also sad that five crew members were killed in a helicopter accident during filming. Chuck and his brother Aaron gave blood at the hospital to try and save them.What a grim beginning of this review... The movie won't bring a smile to your face either. The main villain does really despicable things in this one , that strangely "Delta force 2" at times belongs more to the modern times of dark , gritty action movies.Billy Drago ("The Untouchables") is fun as always as the bad guy. This must be his third movie with Chuck. Everybody else is not worth mentioning.Lots of heavy handed conservative social commentary and evil Latin American stereotypes. A little bit of propaganda. Also not very impressive action. Bad direction from Aaron Norris with lots of slow motion (not used effectively either). I have to admit that the stunts (skydiving) are pretty cool.Brainless sequel for Chuck's best movie. To be honest it doesn't really have anything in common with the first movie (with the exception of Chuck). Maybe you will enjoy it on the "so bad , it's good" level. I would rather watch "License to kill" or "Lethal weapon 2". I give it 1/10.

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.

Maybe you people have gotten used to the real deals out there, the movies that were worthy enough to win academy awards. Tell me, is that right? No. You need to gain a broad range of a lot of middle class and lower class films. This one was made on a low budget but I think Chuck Norris more than equals it out. Here we have an interesting storyline and many high fighting spots, courtesy of course from the "Lethal Weapon" Chuck Norris. You can't treat this film the same way as you would treat the Godfather. Both of them are on different levels and I'm not saying one is higher than the other but you really need to look at Delta Force 2 differently. It wasn't out to win an Academy Award, so don't treat it in the manor that it was. It deserves just as high a rating as an Academy-award winning film. You would be cheating out the people who want to see this film and the director and all the people who put their time, effort and money into making Delta Force 2. Look at this film differently and chances are you'll like it because you're putting it on a different level. Rating movies takes care and a broad spectrum of rating systems. Before I go, Chuck Norris rules!