Admirable film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Silly Cannon Pictures attempt at a "Towering Inferno," "Airport," or "The Poseidon Adventure" type of star studded disaster film, except instead of a fire or natural disaster, it's a terrorist airplane hijacking. A Boeing 707 from Athens is hijacked by middle easter terrorists who demand to be taken to Beirut. Passenger include holocaust survivor Martin Balsam, his wife Shelley Winters, George Kennedy as a Catholic priest, Kim Delaney as a nun, Rat Packer Joey Bishop and Lainie Kazan as Jewish stereotypes, Susan Strasberg as a mother, and Bo Svenson as the plane's pilot. Enter the Delta Force, led by Lee Marvin, in his final film role, and his right hand man Chuck Norris. Robert Vaughn plays the general overseeing the team and other notable team members include Steve James and a young Liam Neeson as an uncredited extra. And in what seems the oddest casting, Italian American actor Robert Forester plays the lead Lebanese terrorist. So, how good or bad is the film? If you know anything about Golan/Globus productions, you know they're not exactly art house films and even by Hollywood standard are pretty low-brow, which is exactly what you get with "The Delta Force." Although I don't think it's quite as bad as Vincent Canby would have it when he wrote that this film would "be the 1986 film all others will have to beat for sheer, unashamed, hilariously vulgar vaingloriousness." It is certainly a ridiculous film about a serious subject, but I can enjoy just about anything starring Lee Marvin, even if it's a goofy action movie where Chuck Norris is his co-star. And although "The Delta Force" doesn't have the same caliber of stars as Poseidon or Inferno, it's still a solid cast of used-to-be-famous Hollywood stars. Also in the film's favor is an excellent grandiose electronic score by Alan Silvestri. Overall, "The Delta Force" is a silly, cliched, reactionary action film that thinks it's far more important of a film than it really is.

This film has more corn than Kansas and plenty of BS to fertilise it with. It starts out with a fair to middling hijack story, and then develops into a gung-ho shoot-fest of epically dreadful proportions. This from someone who enjoys the Expendables movies. The difference is: they don't try to take themselves too seriously, and the action is much better- if equally unbelievable.US Special Forces armed almost exclusively with Uzi machine pistols, shooting from the hip in spray and pray fashion just got my goat time and time again. The dramatic manoeuvres such as pulling wheelies on motorcycles just left me wondering why would you bother? To risk losing control in a life and death situation might look cool, but you just wouldn't. Standing around in the middle of the road, facing an army of bad guys? Seriously? And as for the major running off on his own to face the chief hijacker with the instruction "don t wait for me". Get outta town. As for going OFF the radio before assaulting the aircraft. What? It leads to some drama in the form of Lee Marvin and his screaming siren, but surely you just wouldn't. The music alternatively sounds like it's appropriate for an awards ceremony and a kids' sci-fi movie and is definitely no John Williams score. It just serves to highlight how bad the movie is.I probably saw this when it came out in 1986. That was clearly long enough for me to forget how awful it is. I stopped really watching it part way through, and switched it off before the end. I can't really say why I have given it two stars. I'm not sure that it deserves one.

The Delta Force is directed by Menahem Golam and Golam co-writes the screenplay with James Bruner. It stars Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn and Shelley Winters. Music is by Alan Silvestri and cinematography by David Gurfinkel.Film is a very loose working of the real life TWA Athens hijacking in 1985, done in a pure fantastical Hollywood style. It would prove to be the final movie of hard man actor Lee Marvin who would sadly pass away a year later, unfortunately this didn't prove to be a fitting swansong for him. All the elements were there, a star name cast fronted by one of the 1980s action movie stars and a hot topic story ripe for serious drama and thrills. Sadly the pic doesn't deliver on its promise of something substantial.However, if you are an action movie fan who isn't the kind to get in a twist about political correctness, sloganeering and overt flag waving, then there's lots of fun to be had. Stripped back from the political aspects (rah rah rah) it's a Norris cartooner, while Marv gets one final decent pay day. The action is well put together, all bonkers, gloriously so, none more so than when Norris is at the forefront. Be it hand to hand butt kicking or indulging in motor cycle mayhem (rocket launchers, oh my!) , it's excessively joyous.Yep! There's cheese aplenty, especially once the human drama of the first hour gives way to macho marauding, whilst Silvestri's musical score is irritating and irritatingly catchy - sounds more like it should have been in an 80s Brat Pack movie - and you can't help but be annoyed that pretty much all the big names in the supporting cast are badly wasted! Also sad to see a frail Marvin in this, ravaged by years of nicotine and alcohol this is not how we want to remember him and therefore we are duty bound not to.Still, forgive it its failings and embrace the thrilling corn, for there's still a good time to be had here. That is on proviso you happen to have a bent for such movies in the first place! 6/10

Here we have Cannon's masterpiece, directed by Menaham Golan himself. A combination '70s disaster movie and '80s actioner. A group of Lebanese terrorists, led by Robert Forster (!), hijack an airliner and demand to be taken to Beirut. Little do the terrorists know an elite squad of commandos known as Delta Force are on the job, led by Lee Marvin (in his final film) and Chuck Norris (with a rocket bike that is the stuff of movie legend).Great supporting cast of familiar faces. A "Love Boat" cast, if you will. Despite Norris being the star, the movie doesn't really become a full-on action flick until the last 1/4. The first 3/4 is more like a dramatic disaster type movie, like the Airport films. But it actually works to the movie's favor in the long run because it allows the tension to build so that when the Delta Force start kicking terrorist ass, it's much more rewarding. There are some unintentionally hilarious moments, of course, since this is a Cannon film. Such as the stewardess distraught over being asked by the hijackers to single out the Jews ("No, not me! Don't you see? I'm German!!!!") or George Kennedy's classic "I'm Jewish just like Jesus Christ." But these elements only add to the enjoyment, as any fan of Cannon's films can attest.As for the elephant in the room, let's tackle that head-on. You won't see a movie like this made again today in the same way. If the terrorists in an action movie today were actually allowed to be of Middle Eastern origin (unlikely), there would have to be a qualifier of some kind. Like there would have to be a white American traitor working with them or there would have to be a "good" Muslim/Arab character to remind all us dumb American hicks that they're not all bad. And, of course, there would have to be some not-so-subtle propaganda in there as well to suggest that America or Israel deserved whatever they were getting.Throughout the '80s, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus ran Cannon Films. They were responsible for what I would consider the last great hurrah for quality B movies. Most of their output were action movies, from ninja films to Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris shoot 'em ups. They also did comedies, sci-fi, horror, and even some dramas. Most of their movies were watchable, some were even good. Yes, some were terrible but a lot of those have a so-bad-it's-good quality about them today. Out of all the movies Cannon put out, to me Delta Force is their best overall production.