Very disappointing...

Redundant and unnecessary.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This is the greatest movie ever made. After this one, filmmakers should have just given up. It has everything. Explosions, gunfire, and Chuck Norris!The bad guys hatch a scheme to invade the USA. But there's one thing they didn't bargain for. That's right! They didn't bargain for Chuck Norris! It's got some great action, did I mention explosions? And lots of Chuck Norris kicking the crap out of bad guys. It's a great movie for the whole family.

"Invasion U.S.A." is another Chuck Norris vehicle that you watch hoping it will be bad enough to be entertaining, and end up being disappointed. Sure, it's ridiculous, but there isn't enough focus on the stupid aspects of it to make it worth watching. Like all Norris-fronted movies, it's merely boring and listless.The plot is something to do with a bad guy who hates Norris's character and tries to take on the United States with the apparent end goal of killing him. It would have been funnier if the handful of bad guys we see here really had tried to take on a country of hundreds of millions of people. Instead, they apparently try to start race riots by posing as police and killing minorities. This is still ludicrous, but not as laugh out loud funny.Of course, this is an '80s action movie, so there's the usual right wing garbage in it. For one, the bad guy (played by class-A villain actor Richard Lynch), is named Rostov, and he's in cahoots with Cubans and other random commies. For two, most of the bad guys' attacks, when not focused on minorities, are focused on images of the good ol' U.S. of A.: ie. a family killed while putting Christmas decorations up, a bus of schoolkids blown to bits, another attack at (gasp) a shopping mall, which the filmmakers apparently think is as quintessentially American as the tea ceremony is Japanese. Maybe they have a point?It's funny how Norris is thought of as the quintessential star of B- grade action movies. He looks uncomfortable in them. He clearly doesn't like the kinds of things that people want to see from movies like this. There's a feisty female reporter, played by another B-movie star, Melissa Prophet, who does nothing but yell and curse at Chuck whenever she's on screen. With another actor, there'd be the requisite love scene. In this one, nothing. So we get half a character arc. She's supposed to hate Norris at the beginning so she can love him by the end, see? But Norris won't go there, so instead we get the beginning with no end. Why not just take her out completely, then?It does have one scene that must be seen to be believed, though: the Richard Lynch character is taking part in a drug deal (what do drugs have to do with his character's plan?) and a lady is snorting some cocaine through a tube. Lynch bangs her head down on the table, jamming the tube up her nose, and sticks the gun down Billy Drago's pants and pulls the trigger. Then he shoves someone - maybe Drago, or the woman - out the window. If you're expecting similar levels of craziness throughout the movie, you'll be disappointed, so just find the scene on Youtube and give "Invasion U.S.A." a miss.

Since World War II, the United States has been the most powerful country in the world, and even during the Cold War era it was hard to imagine an overland enemy intrusion into the U.S. soil (although nuclear conflict was close at least twice) - even by Soviets and/or Cubans. Hence the triggering event is odd already, but follow-up events (incl. riots and confrontations) could be yet likely, but their expression leaves to be desired: lots of clichés, lousy acting, improbable approaches and solutions, staking on single man hegemony, pointless shootings etc. The ending is predictable - and too quick-tempered.The only good and distinctive actor is Richard Lynch as Mikhail Rostov (apart from his poor Russian), Chuck Norris is dull kicker, Melissa Prophet is just a chick...Among the better half of movies with the presence of Norris, but there are still much better similar movies out there, e.g. those with Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson.

Joseph Zito directed this far-fetched action film that stars Chuck Norris as former CIA agent Matt Hunter, who is living peacefully in Florida when he is informed that his old nemesis Rostov(played by Richard Lynch) is planning an attack on Miami, leading an estimated 1000 man army to blow up houses and cause havoc. Matt agrees to help, since both he and Rostov are haunted by their last encounter, which both of them regret(Matt let Rostov live, Rostov wants revenge for the humiliation.) Lots of action and explosions here, but the plot is idiotic, and none of this remotely rings true. Too silly to be compared with real life terrorist attacks...