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The Delta Force

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A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1986-02-14

Runtime: 129 mins

Director: Menahem Golan

Spoken language: English, العربية, ελληνικά

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure, War

Original title: The Delta Force

Production Companies: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

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chandlerdanier
Lots of stunts in this. Lots of wheelies. Very nice feature of rope on shoulders as an accessory as well as rope with knots in it to get into hard to reach areas. That's the best stunt. It does seem like the wheelies are just for show and not even all that good. My buddy growing up could wheelie about that good. He was really good at wheelies though. The way people act, it's funny to imagine them in the military at times. Those people running in the water do not seem professional let alone elite. It is charming in its earnestness. They really believed in this project. A little long. Oui, oui. Radio Canada.
2024-08-12

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John Chard
Delta Damage! 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
2017-01-08

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