{"id":5909,"date":"2024-10-14T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2024-10-14T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:43:42","slug":"delta-force-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/14\/delta-force-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Force 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Delta Force 2<\/strong> (1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MGM\/Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 111 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, strong violence, drugs)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Aaron Norris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Lee Reynolds\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Frederic Talgorn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Joao Fernandes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 24, 1990 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, John P. Ryan, Richard Jaeckel, Begonia Plaza, Paul Perri, Hector Mercado, Mark Margolis, Rick Prieto, Mateo Gomez, Ruth de Sosa, Gerard Castillo, Geoff Brewer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $6.6M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The sequel Delta Force 2 <\/strong>is a sequel in name and main character only. It has nothing to do with its 1986 predecessor other than Chuck Norris reprising his character, Col. Scott McCoy of the US Delta Force. It\u2019s on-screen title is Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection. The title on the poster is Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold. Thank you, but I\u2019ll just refer to it as plain Delta Force 2<\/strong>. By any name, it\u2019s an inferior but entertaining follow-up to a great action movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For one thing, it\u2019s more like one of Chuck\u2019s one-man shows than a team effort. In fact, the squad seems almost incidental. They show up to assist him in his fight against a brutal drug kingpin, but they never really work as a team like in the first movie. I couldn\u2019t even tell you the name of a single member of the team except for the commander, General Taylor (Ryan, Death Wish 4).<\/p>\n

\u00a0For McCoy, it\u2019s personal this time. He declares war against Colombian drug lord Ramon Cota (Drago, Invasion USA) after he executes his partner\/best friend Bobby Chavez (Perri, Manhunter) and his family as revenge for interfering with his illegal operations. He\u2019s also responsible for the deaths of several DEA agents conducting a surveillance operation in Rio. He gets away with murder (and everything else) because he\u2019s the richest and most powerful drug kingpin in the world. He basically owns the fictional South American country of San Carlos. His product- i.e. cocaine- pours into the US like water. The country\u2019s president, fearing a coup if he acts against Cota, does nothing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The DEA asks for the DF\u2019s help in apprehending Cota. McCoy and Chavez come up with a ballsy idea. They pose as passengers on the same plane as Cota who\u2019s on his way to Geneva to deposit his money. They wait to arrest him until they\u2019re over American airspace. Then they jump out of the plane with their prisoner onto a waiting naval ship. Sadly, it\u2019s all for naught. Cota easily posts the $10 million bail which leaves him free to kill Chavez\u2019s pregnant wife and younger brother. Chavez goes to San Carlos to deal with Cota on his own only to be captured along with three DEA agents. Cota sends a video of Chavez being killed. Needless to say, it puts McCoy on the warpath, but he has to set his personal feelings aside for now. His primary objective is to rescue the hostages before Cota kills them too. He goes in alone ahead of the unit while they prepare to wipe out Cota\u2019s entire operation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As a sequel to one of the greatest Cannon movies of the 80s, Delta Force 2<\/strong> is rather weak. It doesn\u2019t come close to matching its epic scale. This is largely because the studio was forced to pare down the original script due to lack of funds. They couldn\u2019t afford what the writers originally had in mind. HOWEVER, if you look at it as a standard Chuck Norris movie, it\u2019s not too bad. It has plenty of action and violence. The star racks up another nice body count, but he appears bored with the whole thing. He doesn\u2019t even get off any memorable one-liners.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The one to watch in Delta Force 2<\/strong> is Billy Drago. He excels at playing vile, sociopathic characters. He plays it to the hilt as Ramon Cota. This man is 100% unadulterated evil. Early on, we learn he murdered the family of a peasant woman (Plaza, Maid to Order) who had the nerve to stop harvesting his coca so she could tend to her sick baby. He kills her husband in front of her (and us). Of-screen, he kills the baby and uses its corpse to smuggle drugs. He also rapes the woman. Is it any wonder she agrees to lead McCoy to Cota\u2019s mountain fortress? We\u2019re talking about a guy who makes Tony Montana look like a candidate for sainthood. I LOVE Drago\u2019s loopy acting style. He\u2019s the best thing in Delta Force 2<\/strong>. Although I like John P. Ryan, he\u2019s no substitute for Lee Marvin. He seems to be having fun with the role though, so why knock him too hard.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I know Delta Force 2 <\/strong>isn\u2019t the type of movie I should examine too closely. It\u2019s a late-summer action flick from a low-budget studio on its last legs. HOWEVER, I can\u2019t help but be bothered by the sequence where McCoy and Cota\u2019s men battle it out in a peasant village in the jungle. In the end, it\u2019s completely destroyed. What\u2019s to become of the residents of the village? Where are they supposed to go? Also, sections of jungle get destroyed in the pursuit of Cota. Call me oversensitive, but I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about the poor people displaced by the mayhem.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s not great, but Delta Force 2<\/strong> works fine as simple-minded action entertainment. It helps to put the original Delta Force movie completely out of your mind (if you can) and just look at it as another one-man show starring Chuck Norris. From that perspective, it\u2019s not too bad.<\/p>\n

\u00a0TRIVIA TIDBIT: A dark pallor hangs over Delta Force 2 <\/strong>due to the deaths of five crew members (including co-star Geoff Brewer) in a helicopter crash during filming. The movie is dedicated to them.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Delta Force 2 (1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MGM\/Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 111 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, strong violence, drugs)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Aaron Norris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Lee Reynolds\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Frederic Talgorn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Joao Fernandes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 24, 1990 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, John P. Ryan, Richard Jaeckel, Begonia Plaza, Paul Perri, Hector Mercado, Mark Margolis, Rick Prieto, Mateo Gomez, Ruth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delta-Force-2-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}