Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 02/14/1986(USA)
Release Date: 09/19/2000
SubTitles: French/Espanol/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2/5.1
Run Time: 128 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Menahem Golan melds a
Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in
The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the crisis -- an American serviceman is beaten to death, a terrorist holds a gun to the pilot's head as the pilot is being questioned by reporters -- while depicting the tension aboard the plane and the agony of the passengers, held under the threat of death by the terrorists. The Delta Force, a crack anti-terrorist commando group, is preparing to rescue the passengers. Colonel Nick Alexander (
Lee Marvin) is the grizzled commander of the task force; his best soldier is Major Scott McCoy (
Chuck Norris), who was planning to retire but is called back into action for one last heroic stand against terrorism.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
