When Chuck Norris vetoed the idea (Norris didn't seem much of a fan of Winner's he once condemned the Death Wish movie's violent excess as being 'too negative' and, let's face it, Winner would have loved to dramatise the events referred to in that exchange I quoted at the top of this page) he brought in his brother, Aaron, to direct instead. Obviously with Golan and Globus bitterly estranged, Cannon would not consider Golan's return to the director's chair here, but further proof that Globus wanted to draw on the hits he had enjoyed with his cousin lies in the fact that the film was originally given to Michael Winner to direct. This ill-advised sequel, with its tale of its special forces hero seeking revenge against a seemingly untouchable and ruthless South American drug baron for the murder of his friends, feels like it was heavily influenced by the previous year's Bond film Licence to Kill. The continuity from the original may not be there but I'm glad they didn't just try and pass Ryan off as Marvin's character, because this would have been a huge disservice to the solid work he had done in The Delta Force. Ryan appears as his superior officer, General Taylor, in what is essentially the Lee Marvin role - but the character is written largely for comic relief (he gets to utter that ridiculous dialogue I quoted at the start of this review) and played as such with Ryan on scenery chewing form. With the demise of Marvin this is much more of a one man show for Chuck Norris, who returns to the role of Scott McCoy, now promoted to Colonel. Understandably they needed a hit that could pull audiences in, something familiar, and so the plans for a sequel were dusted off and it was finally put into production.though I really wish that it hadn't been.Ĭriticism of this sequel bearing little relation to the original is not unfounded. The professional split of Golan and Globus in 1989 saw Cannon - now led by Yoram Globus - desperate to prove that it was business as usual. ![]() Plans for a sequel to The Delta Force, the Menahem Golan directed Cannon film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin, had first been mooted upon the film's release in 1986, but Marvin's death in 1987 had effectively put such plans on ice. I wouldn't mention any of this when you meet her, she's probably still a little touchy about it." - Genuine exchange in this film! " Cota killed her husband in front of her, then he killed her baby and used the corpse to smuggle cocaine, then he raped her.
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