The Delta Force (1986)
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20% of critics liked it
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52% of users liked it
(15,239 ratings)
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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Menahem Golan
- Written By
- James Bruner, Menahem Golan
- Genres
- Action & Adventure
R,
- In Theaters
- Feb 14, 1986 Limited
- Studio
- Media Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com
Works equally well as a tense, powerful hostage drama and a rousing action film. The Delta Force gets my vote as Chuck Norris' best movie.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
One has to question the excessive carnage of the finale and its celebration of the eye-for-an-eye ethic.
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Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Half-disaster, half-action low-budget cheese that's still fairly entertaining in spots.
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Cast
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Chuck Norris
as Maj. Scott McCoy
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Lee Marvin
as Col. Nick Alexander
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Martin Balsam
as Ben Kaplan
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Joey Bishop
as Harry Goldman
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Robert Forster
as Abdul
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Lainie Kazan
as Sylvia Goldman
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George Kennedy
as Father O'Malley
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Hanna Schygulla
as Ingrid
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Susan Strasberg
as Debra Levine
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Bo Svenson
as Capt. Campbell
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Robert Vaughn
as Gen. Woolbridge
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Shelley Winters
as Edie Kaplan
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William A. Wallace
as Pete Peterson
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Kim Delaney
as Sister Mary
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David Menahem
as Mustafa
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Assaf Dayan
as Raffi Amir
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Jerry Hyman
as Ted Bilicki
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Eugene Kline
as American Ambassador in Tel Aviv
- Steve James
