The Delta Force.
You know what I loved most about this movie? The theme song. it never gets old:
There is nothing like a good theme song to keep you locked into a movie forever.
Alan Silvestri is killing me with this shit. It’s amazing. Real basic, blends in with the action without overshadowing it. I think it just sneaks up on you. It’s like when the Delta force needed to be quiet the music got quiet, and when the Delta Force need to be heroic, the music got heroic. Brilliant!
And this guy did the music for the Avengers films too! Actually not too surprising, cause Chuck Norris was doing the hero thing on the silver screen long before Captain America got it right, long before.
The Delta Force in itself is actually a new concept. Especially when this movie came out. It’s the Army’s version of the Navy SEALS use for convert missions to rescue people and stuff, cause the United States does not negotiate with terrorist, so they train cats to be ninjas and go into a place unnoticed and come out with the “cargo”
Ok, so that last part is just me guessing based on the movie. It does seem like a good propaganda film for the Delta Force showing what they do how they do it and why it needs to be done.
They picked a common enemy, a Palestinian terrorist group who comes up with a plan to sneak other members of their group out of a country, and when hostages become evolved with the plan, the Delta force is called.
The legendary Chuck Norris plays a member of the Delta Force whose tired of the games his superiors seem to play with the lives of his team, but understands too well how important his job is. Chuck does not do much fighting, but he kicks much ass in the classic gun totting 80s fashion, and looks great doing.
Lee Marvin plays the field leader of a dirty dozen style team of the best of the best taking on the bad guy (by 1980s standards anyway cause by 2018 I know too much about the Palestinians to find them all out evil (Especially with Robert Forester putting on a fake tan to play one of them).
Steve James is also in the movie:
I love and miss Steve James
The name may not ring a bell, but his face might if you are into 80s action movies. Steve James was a Marshal Artist and an actor, possibly best known for playing Curtis Jackson in the American Ninja series. James tended to play the supporting actor to the main action hero, despite at times being better as both a Marshal artist and an actor than the main guy we came to watch. He’s like Samuel L. Jackson only specifically for action movies, and instead of saying mother fucker, he would just kick your ass. He died young of cancer and it’s a shame that he never got the chance to fully shine (Like Carl Weathers did if his skit on SNL)
I should not talk so much about Steve James as technically his role is considered minor according to the opening credits, but other than a blonde dude that gets hurt during the film, James is the only other Delta Force member other than Norris and Marvin who stands out at all,
It’s a pretty well know cast with Shelly Winters, George Kennedy,Robert Vaughn and a young Kim Delaney to name a few people who I recognized. Vaughn played a four star General given orders on the phone at the pentagon to the Delta Force while most of the other stars played hostages needing to be rescued from Robert Forester.
I feel like the film has to have done a good job of showcasing the task of the Delta Force. It does not try to exaggerate the confrontations happening, something that would be tempting to do with a Karate master leading the charge, but it’s all about how tactical these guys are with their action (but what do I know I’m literally going by the movie)
And was again, much respect to Alan Silvestri who did the heavy lifting with his music score. Bringing the action when they needed it, bringing the stealth when need it, bringing the heroics when needed.
