Chuck Norris, Mary Louise Weller, Bob Minor

Lady Luck has fled Hong Kong's Lucky Dragon Casino. Its manager has squandered the profits. Its owner has been snuffed by the mob. And the heir to the casino is in hiding. But Lucky Dragon still holds...( read more  read more... ) one last ace: security expert Josh Randall. Local mobsters should cash in their chips when Chuck Norris plays Randall in Forced Vengeance, an alive-and-kicking actionfest directed by James Fargo (who directed Clint Eastwood in The Enforcer and Every Which Way but Loose). Determined to find the syndicate big shot behind the proprietor's death, Randall goes on the hunt. Trouble follows. And so does the lightning strike of screen excitement - the kind of martial-arts excitement that only Norris can chop, punch, shoot, leap, slam and deliver!

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R, 91 min.

Directed by: James Fargo

Release Date: July 30, 1982

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DVD Release Date: May 31, 2005

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  • March 18, 2009
    Helmed by 'The Enforcer' director James Fargo, 'Forced Vengeance' is a typical early 80s revenge flick starring Chuck Norris as Josh Randall, a guy employed as a casino security guard, and who thinks he has a penchant for narrating his own life and the shenanigans he gets mixed u...( read more)p in.

    Josh is a good guy, an ex special ops/vietnam vet dude (what else?) who now lives in Hong Kong and works for a father and son who own a casino. Poor Josh does a good job, but people seem to enjoy messing with and stepping on his precious cowboy hat, and this doesn't make him very happy. There are much roundhouse kicks to the face when this happens. When his employers are killed by rival casino owners (!), Josh goes on a systematic rampage through the streets of HK, and kicks the shit out of the baddies wearing the tightest Chuck Norris action jeans you can buy.

    Wow, remind me that I DO NOT want to go to work in the casino security business in Hong Kong, what with the rival owners killing each other all the time. Like I said, this was a typical film for the time (think 'Pray for Death,' 'the Octagon,' 'Enter the Ninja'), and the action is quite brutal with much red paint. Norris totally blows as an actor, but all we really wanna see him do at the end of the day is roundhouse kick people in the face while wearing tight jeans and cowboy boots, and we're not let down here.

    Lots of deaths, blood, brutal rape, and slow, sloppy fights- it seems like almost everyone but Chuck dies in this-, but I still found this enjoyable enough to stay awake. Not much to chuckle at really, except for Chuck dressing up in his soldier outfit at the end. Him narrating his own life was a nice touch too. I just wish there was something more redeeming to recommend this for, like Chuck saving a puppy in the rain in slow motion; but alas, no. Maybe the bad fight scene at the end where the baddie is fighting Chuck with the toilet he ripped out of the floor? Hmmm... Okay, there was lots to chuckle at here.

    You couldn't make this movie today, really. To quote Dean Devlin, the 80s was like "the wild west for action movies," you could get away with anything; and you're not gonna see stuff like this in a Statham or Bourne movie.

    Overall, 'Forced Vengeance' wasn't as boring as some of his other late 70s/early 80s crap, but if you like this type of movie, I'd recommend 'Lone Wolf McQuade' or 'A Force of One' instead, which are the high marks for his early stuff. This was about a year or two before the Cannon (read: golden) years, so viewer beware if you're looking for an 'Invasion USA' or 'Code of Silence' caliber bad action movie.
  • January 10, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested.
  • December 12, 2008
    THIS WAS OK IT HAD GOOD ACTION .
    BUT THIS WAS NOT ONE OF CHUCK NORRIS BETTER MOVIES
  • December 7, 2008
    this movie is very good and worth seeing again
  • November 26, 2008
    Awesome display of spectacular karate action with Chuck Norris who goes on the hunt. Much martial-arts excitement that only Norris can chop, punch, shoot, leap, slam and deliver!
  • March 15, 2008
    Awesome pre-beard Chuck flick. He saw them coming...kinda. Chuck Norris kicks a bunch of asses, wears tight jeans, a molestache, cowboy boots, & a cowboy hat. I don't know how he can roundhouse kick like he does in those tight jeans either. I like the part after Chuck suited up ...( read more)in his army uniform Commando style & did a missile dropkick off of a roof into some creeps. Another great part was where he threatened to set this guy's gay lover on fire. Chuck's narration was really deep too. It had me thinking a lot. I wish he would've killed Chinese Danny Trejo by drowning him in the toilet. Instead, Chinese Danny Trejo rips the toilet out of the ground & throws it. Shattered toilet. The most fucked up thing in this movie is when Chuck turned off Simon Koo's Tom & Jerry cartoons. Totally fucked up.
  • December 20, 2007
    Awesome pre-beard Chuck Norris flick. It's good to see Bob Minor in a role that doesn't require him to smell the bad guy coming, his death scene was powerful. The end credits are hilarious.
  • November 14, 2007
    Great film Look for the references to this film in Hot Fuzz.
  • June 12, 2007
    everything with chuck norris is awesome.

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