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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1986 DVD Release: 09/19/2000 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 8 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Action, Action Thriller, Disaster Film

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, All Movie Guide

Chuck Norris - Maj. Scott McCoy
Lee Marvin - Col. Nick Alexander
Martin Balsam - Ben Kaplan
Joey Bishop - Harry Goldman
Robert Forster - Abdul

One of Chuck Norris' more celebrated features, Menahem Golan's The Delta Force comes to DVD with a standard full-frame 1.33:1 image that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include original theatrical trailers. Although the lack of supplemental features and the pan-and-scanned image are a letdown, the disc will please Chuck Norris fans. However, nothing on this disc will convert the non-fan. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide