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.

A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages. The Delta Force is a film that 80's Action Fans will definitely enjoy and although it starts pretty slow and full with tension inside an aircraft and don't get me wrong both the 2nd and 3rd act were pretty great but i think the 1st act built a lot of tension and had some pretty good moments but overall this is a great film with nice performances by Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Robert Forster and George Kennedy, the soundtrack by Alan Silvestri is terrific and something that i can listen all day and the action itself was pretty excellent especially the sequences with Chuck Norris riding the motorcycle and in my opinion it was a pretty great film and i'm going to give it an A

90% of cast and crew on this film were Israeli and was obvious there intention was to portray 'Arabs' in a bad light. The movie sucked, the second is a lot better. How common is it to see Hollywood portray Arabs in the wrong way judging an entire nation of almost 2 billion people by the actions of a few. Its like judging Christianity based on the actions of the KKK....See my point?The second movie is much better. Contains a much better realistic storyline, better action, actors don't all look constipated and audio seems to be much better to name but a few improvements.

My first Chuck Norris movie review was 1981's An Eye For An Eye: the best movie he did without any facial hair (as I like to call "smooth-faced Norris"). My next was 1982's Forced Vengeance: the best movie he did with just a moustache (as I like to call "moustache-Norris"). My most recent was 1991's The Hit-man: the best movie he did with his signature beard (as I like to call "bearded-Norris"). Now I am doing the best movie he did in any era that surpasses them all: The Delta Force. The Delta Force is one of Norris' best known movies and roles as Major Scott McCoy. The movie also stars many old-time actors such as Lee Marvin, Joey Bishop, Martin Balsam, Robert Forester, George Kennedy and Shelley Winters. These classic stars prevent this from being just another, crappy, ultra-violent action flick. Of course it's cheesy beyond belief and cartoon and very violent, but the successfully stays on the side of fun action classic and does not cross into the realm of stupidity. Chuck Norris does a bad job of acting as usual, but the rest of the cast is good. They save what could have been a stinkfest. They are either over-the-top good, or over- the-top bad. In fact, this is like a real-life cartoon. The Delta Force is about a pair of terrorists who hijack a plane with orders to go to Beirut, then take some to Israel. Unbeknownst to them, there's a ragtag group of American mercenaries that they cannot beat. The movie starts off at more of a serious note with the hijack. It may be a bit cheesy, but it is also serious as mean terrorists threaten to destroy all. It is after the Americans arrive that it becomes a cartoon. The music is nice, the action is fun, and everything is so "all- American and nothing else!" What is there not to love?