Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)

Where to begin commenting on Delta Force 2? For a start, it has an unashamedly awful and truly despicable villain who oozes pure evil from every stinking orifice. When eccentric bad guys are not hammy, they are Ramon Cota (a sickening performance by Billy Drago). Cota is a Colombian drug lord, who ships massive amounts of cocaine into America. He kills DEA agents with unnatural glee, murders pregnant women, rapes women, murders their husbands, murders sick babies and uses their bodies to smuggle cocaine, he has a chamber of death in his living room with large viewing window for his pleasure. Make no mistake kiddies, this guy is lower than minus infinity. I am surprised that he didn't go further and start killing the Queen, the Pope, Mother Theresa, and Jesus himself just to prove how evil he was.The action ranges from Norris flying through the sky, swinging through the jungle, falling off cliffs and dodging rockets. Director Aaron Norris drags out every bloody detail, every death dance, and every penetration of every bullet with loads of slow motion. Cota has about 40 million armed guards (I am honestly not kidding) which provide plenty of fodder for the gunship and McCoy's smaller hand- held weapons. Keeping a tally on the body count would be virtually impossible. Another common criticism is the lack of personality for the Delta Force team themselves. I feel that this is a bit unfair. McCoy's immediate subordinate, Major Anderson, disappears near the end of the film as Geof Brewer died in a helicopter crash during production, which killed 4 others and seriously injured co-actors John P. Ryan and Mateo Gomez. It's a shame as he was rather likable. If you want brainless 80's action-fest (in spirit, not quite date of production) jungle mayhem, then look no further because I would certainly put this in Norris' top ten.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.Almost as long as the first movie, this film retains none of the cast of the first film except for Chuck Norris. It also doesn't focus on the Delta Force team so much as part one.What this movie does offer is more Chuck Norris, more action than part one and more American jingoistic patriotism. They just don't make them like this anymore.Chuck Norris fans have all they could ask for with Delta Force 2. Norris and a dozen US marines fly into the South American drug capital San Carlos, destroy half the country's cocaine production, and rub out the land's untouchable drug czar, in a blaze of exploding missiles and flying fists.Norris is a minimalist actor, rightly concentrating on the action. As the sadistic Coda, Billy Drago has a Medusa-like presence that produces shivers just from looking at him.There are some terrific action scenes, fighting scenes and explosions!Delta Force 2 is yet another awesome Chuck Norris action picture and one that adds to the ass-kicking mystique that he would be legendary for decades later. The Verdict: 9 / 10 - Explosive!

A DEA team is massacred as they try to take down drug lord Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) during carnival in Rio de Janeiro after being tipped off by a mole. In San Carlos, South America, DEA recruits outsiders Col. Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) and Major Bobby Chavez to bring in Cota. They D.B. Cooper out of a plane with Cota. Cota gets $10 million bail. Chavez hits Cota and in return, Cota kills his family. Cota returns to San Carlos under the protection of corrupt general Olmedo. Chavez tries to take revenge and is killed. McCoy leads an expert team to take down Cota.Billy Drago plays a good villain. He is the only one who is superior in this B-movie. Chuck Norris has never been a good actor. This is no exception. Sadly, he's not the worst. The movie is also too boring. There is not enough action until the second half. While there're lots of explosions, the action is shot in an old 80's fashion. This is strictly B-movie material.

The DEA is hot on the trail of Ramon Cota (Drago) - an extremely evil (and extremely rich) drug lord. He controls whole Colombian towns with threats, murder, and intimidation. DEA agent John Page (Jaeckel) is in over his head, so he calls in the best - Col. Scott McCoy (Norris) - to help take down Cota once and for all. When Cota attacks the wrong people - people close to McCoy - things become personal and McCoy brings all the force he has to bring down Cota and his organization.Sure, Chuck Norris has no emotion but there is none needed. At least he can do martial arts, unlike other emotionless actors like Kip Pardue and Ryan O'Neal. They have no physical skills, range, OR screen presence. So if one of those three choices have to be sacrificed, at least for action cinema, you can lose the emotional range. On the other end of the spectrum, in a career of playing villains, this is one of Billy Drago's best. He's sinister and menacing, as he usually is, but his portrayal of Cota is scary and downright sadistic. Drago did a great job once again.John P. Ryan gives an energetic (some might say over the top) performance as General Taylor, and he makes some priceless faces along the way. This role could have been played by Dennis Hopper or even Terence Stamp, but Ryan gives it some extra, A-Team-like wackiness. Also it should be noted that an evil General (isn't there always an evil General?) that's working with Cota, Gen. Olmedo (Margolis) looks exactly like nutty politician Ron Paul. It's really funny every time he pops up on screen in his General's uniform, because anyone's first instinct would be to yell "That's Ron Paul!" It would have been nice to see more members of the Delta Force team from the first film, especially Steve James. He was probably busy working on a Dudikoff film at this time. (Actually, both men were slated to be in an early incarnation of this film). And once behind "enemy lines", trying to attack Cota's stronghold in "San Carlos", the action becomes very dumb. Let's not forget Aaron Norris directed this particular Cannon production.While this movie was shot in large part in the Philippines, that great filming haven for action movies, the plot becomes dangerously close to an "El Presidente" movie. (Please see our review for ??? where we coin the term and explain what it is, if you don't already know). Perhaps needlessly taking a cue from the first Delta Force film, this sequel is unnecessarily long. There's no reason for that. But the training sequence and Chuck-Fu are what make this movie worth seeing, when you get right down to it.Featuring the song "Winds of Change" by Lee Greenwood, Delta Force 2 isn't a life-changer, but it's a good entry in Chuck's canon.