The DEA is hot on the trail of Ramon Cota (Drago) - an extremely evil (and extremely rich) drug lord. He controls whole Colombian towns with threats, murder, and intimidation. DEA agent John Page (Jaeckel) is in over his head, so he calls in the best - Col. Scott McCoy (Norris) - to help take down Cota once and for all. When Cota attacks the wrong people - people close to McCoy - things become personal and McCoy brings all the force he has to bring down Cota and his organization.Sure, Chuck Norris has no emotion but there is none needed. At least he can do martial arts, unlike other emotionless actors like Kip Pardue and Ryan O'Neal. They have no physical skills, range, OR screen presence. So if one of those three choices have to be sacrificed, at least for action cinema, you can lose the emotional range. On the other end of the spectrum, in a career of playing villains, this is one of Billy Drago's best. He's sinister and menacing, as he usually is, but his portrayal of Cota is scary and downright sadistic. Drago did a great job once again.John P. Ryan gives an energetic (some might say over the top) performance as General Taylor, and he makes some priceless faces along the way. This role could have been played by Dennis Hopper or even Terence Stamp, but Ryan gives it some extra, A-Team-like wackiness. Also it should be noted that an evil General (isn't there always an evil General?) that's working with Cota, Gen. Olmedo (Margolis) looks exactly like nutty politician Ron Paul. It's really funny every time he pops up on screen in his General's uniform, because anyone's first instinct would be to yell "That's Ron Paul!" It would have been nice to see more members of the Delta Force team from the first film, especially Steve James. He was probably busy working on a Dudikoff film at this time. (Actually, both men were slated to be in an early incarnation of this film). And once behind "enemy lines", trying to attack Cota's stronghold in "San Carlos", the action becomes very dumb. Let's not forget Aaron Norris directed this particular Cannon production.While this movie was shot in large part in the Philippines, that great filming haven for action movies, the plot becomes dangerously close to an "El Presidente" movie. (Please see our review for ??? where we coin the term and explain what it is, if you don't already know). Perhaps needlessly taking a cue from the first Delta Force film, this sequel is unnecessarily long. There's no reason for that. But the training sequence and Chuck-Fu are what make this movie worth seeing, when you get right down to it.Featuring the song "Winds of Change" by Lee Greenwood, Delta Force 2 isn't a life-changer, but it's a good entry in Chuck's canon.

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!

I'm a big fan of Chuck Norris, and I really enjoyed this movie a lot. However, it is mostly the scenes with Chuck that actually works. I think there is too much violence in this movie. However, Chuck is really a powerful martial artist, and we see a lot of great martial arts techniques in this movie. It is no wonder than Bruce lee trained a lot with Chuck. Both of them are the real thing when it comes to martial arts, and their movies are a powerful display of their art. I thought many of the scenes in this particular movie were a bit stupid, however, it is an OK sequel, and it does make sense sort of. There's some great stunt scenes also, and, all things being equal, it is a great action-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!