Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection starts in Rio as DEA agent John Page (Richard Jaeckel) & his team prepare to arrest Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) the biggest drug dealer in the world, however Ramon has been tipped off & kills agent Page's team. With an informant in the DEA tipping Ramon off Page turns to General Taylor (John P. Ryan) to organise the arrest of Ramon using none DEA agents, Taylor turns to Delta Force men Colonal Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) & Major Bobby Chavez (Paul Perri) to bring Ramon in. McCoy & Chavez manage to arrest Ramon but he is given bail & flees back to his country San Carlos after killing Bobby's wife (Ruth de Sosa) in revenge, wanting revenge himself Bobby travels to San Carlos but Ramon captures him & kills him sending the tape to General Taylor. Outraged the President authorises an all out attack on the drug fields & factories in San Carlos with McCoy going in 48 hours early to pay Ramon a personal visit...
Variously known under the the working titles Delta Force II, America's Red Army: Delta Force II, Delta Force II: Operation Crackdown & Spitfire: Delta Force II during it's production this was directed by Aaron Norris who had previously directed his elder brother Chuck in another sequel Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) & for my money is probably the best action film Chuck Norris ever made. It's quite surprising at just how much action there is in Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection with the last forty minutes in particular full of fights, shoot-outs, explosions, helicopter & car chases & general mayhem. From a story point of view Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is acceptable, the character's are alright with the slimy drug lord Ramon Cota one of the best villains around while the tit for tat revenge motives are familiar but make sense & it's fun watching lots of things get blown up. At over an hour & forty minutes long not much screen time is wasted with exposition, your never that far from the next shoot out or fight. Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is just a highly entertaining moderately budgeted action film that really delivers the good, they just don't make films like this anymore. Norris doesn't really have a team this time around, he's more of a loner here & there's little connection to the original The Delta Force (1986) other than having Norris in it.
Set in the fictional country of San Carlos (so where's the Colombian connection as referenced in the title?) the lush green jungle scenery looks great, Cota's mountain top mansion is in fact the real life Palace in the Sky in Tagaytay city outside Manila in the Philippines originally built by First Lady Imelda Marcos (well she didn't build it personally, she paid for it to be built). Like Braddock: Missing in Action III there was an accident on set in which five crew members were killed when a helicopter crashed. The stunts are very good, there's a fantastic aerial stunt in which Norris has to catch a falling man who has no parachute, there's also a cool part when two people are dragged on rope by a helicopter through the forest. There are some really meaty explosions as lots of things are blown up, there's plenty of shoot-outs & fights & the occasional one-liner as well. Add some helicopter & car chases & stunts too & Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection really delivers the action.
Filmed in Tennessee & the Philippines, this looks nice enough & is well made for this type of film. The acting is erratic, Norris is as wooden as usual, John P. Ryan has fun with the General but Billy Drago steals the show with his slimy drug lord character.
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is a great film, it's an action packed film with more story & better character's than usual & more importantly better action than a lot of fairly low budget action films. No crap CGI computer effects either, it's all real stunt work & real fake blood & it's all the better for it.
Variously known under the the working titles Delta Force II, America's Red Army: Delta Force II, Delta Force II: Operation Crackdown & Spitfire: Delta Force II during it's production this was directed by Aaron Norris who had previously directed his elder brother Chuck in another sequel Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) & for my money is probably the best action film Chuck Norris ever made. It's quite surprising at just how much action there is in Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection with the last forty minutes in particular full of fights, shoot-outs, explosions, helicopter & car chases & general mayhem. From a story point of view Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is acceptable, the character's are alright with the slimy drug lord Ramon Cota one of the best villains around while the tit for tat revenge motives are familiar but make sense & it's fun watching lots of things get blown up. At over an hour & forty minutes long not much screen time is wasted with exposition, your never that far from the next shoot out or fight. Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is just a highly entertaining moderately budgeted action film that really delivers the good, they just don't make films like this anymore. Norris doesn't really have a team this time around, he's more of a loner here & there's little connection to the original The Delta Force (1986) other than having Norris in it.
Set in the fictional country of San Carlos (so where's the Colombian connection as referenced in the title?) the lush green jungle scenery looks great, Cota's mountain top mansion is in fact the real life Palace in the Sky in Tagaytay city outside Manila in the Philippines originally built by First Lady Imelda Marcos (well she didn't build it personally, she paid for it to be built). Like Braddock: Missing in Action III there was an accident on set in which five crew members were killed when a helicopter crashed. The stunts are very good, there's a fantastic aerial stunt in which Norris has to catch a falling man who has no parachute, there's also a cool part when two people are dragged on rope by a helicopter through the forest. There are some really meaty explosions as lots of things are blown up, there's plenty of shoot-outs & fights & the occasional one-liner as well. Add some helicopter & car chases & stunts too & Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection really delivers the action.
Filmed in Tennessee & the Philippines, this looks nice enough & is well made for this type of film. The acting is erratic, Norris is as wooden as usual, John P. Ryan has fun with the General but Billy Drago steals the show with his slimy drug lord character.
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection is a great film, it's an action packed film with more story & better character's than usual & more importantly better action than a lot of fairly low budget action films. No crap CGI computer effects either, it's all real stunt work & real fake blood & it's all the better for it.