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- 1986
- TV-MA
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 5 m
- 1986
- TV-MA
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 5 m
Summary After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is deployed to resolve the crisis.
Directed By: Menahem Golan
Written By: James Bruner, Menahem Golan
- 1986
- TV-MA
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 5 m
- 1986
- TV-MA
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 5 m
The Delta Force
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5.5
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Summary After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is deployed to resolve the crisis.
Directed By: Menahem Golan
Written By: James Bruner, Menahem Golan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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33% Mixed
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44% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
37
22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
I thought this was going to be another hilarious disaster movie, but I was wrong. The Delta Force settles down into a well-made action film that tantalizes us with its parallels to real life.
The movie is not Oscar caliber by any means. The acting is spare and without much passion.. Sure the movie is worth one or two stars at best. But it's a hell of a ride nonetheless.
Golan barely touches on the fundamental conflicts that created the situation there and simply offers a pack of wild-eyed, swarthy Arabs preying on passive, middle-aged Jews represented by the likes of Winters, Balsam, Bishop, and Kazan. Such horrors do happen, but they do not have to be presented as a cartoon.
Students of minimal acting techniques can compare Marvin and Norris: impassivity versus vacancy. Students of the disaster film should write a short thesis on why George Kennedy is ubiquitous. Everyone else might wonder why the film is so virulently anti-Arab.
Golan and Bruner, in other words, have made the Holocaust into just another tear-jerking tool for the Cannon Productions shlockenspiel. This is called "chutzpah." The unoffended will find that the movie doesn't even deliver on its own sordid level. There isn't any action till 70 minutes into the film.
Like most Norris vehicles, The Delta Force is long on spurious action and short on production values. It's also silly, but it's more than that. Rambo asked, "Do we get to win this time?"; Norris' Delta Force gets to go back and win last time. [19 Feb 1986, p.D8]
The script plays like ''The Dirty Dozen'' saving the passenger list of ''Airport `77.''
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