Invasion U.S.A
I'm not going to claim to be some sort of Chuck Norris connoisseur or anything. My experience with his movies up until now was Sidekicks, yes the Sidekicks starring Jonathan Brandis. I do know that long before he became a catchphrase and Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris starred in all sorts of action flicks in the late 70s and 80s, with some big hits like The Delta Force and Missing in Action. The movie on the cutting board today isn't one of those movies, but another action flick that is running on full Norris, Invasion U.S.A. The movie is directed by Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter director Joseph Zito, with special effects by Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero and Howard BurgerXXX. The movie stars Chuck Norris as the lead ass-kicking …show more content…
The plot for Invasion U.S.A is right there in the title. A maniacal madman, played by Richard Lynch, is determined to invade the U.S.A and create destruction and panic, killing anyone that gets in his way. The only person to have ever stopped Rostov before was the bearded wonder known as Chuck Norris, who has an unhealthy affinity for walking around with his shirt undone.
After Rostov decides to level an entire suburban neighbourhood, during X-mas no less (what's with foreign baddies and X-mas?), the government calls in Matt Hunter (Norris) to take down Rostov once in for all and Matt is determined to finish the job this time, as he previously spared Rostov's life. Matt makes sure let Rostov know that this time, he is going to die, going so far as spout the line "Time to die" during an interview on TV, just to enrage Rostov. After being called out on TV like that, he stubbornly puts aside the invasion plans to take down Matt instead, but you can't kill what can't be killed and Chuck Norris is unkillable. Rostov, plus his henchmen go head to head with Matt on several occasions, be it destroying an entire shopping mall, chasing down an explosive-rigged school bus full of children, or a highrise building with dozens of tanks surrounding it. The movie isn't short on explosive action …show more content…
One scene, in particular, has Matt randomly showing up a fairground, which was the site of one of Rostov's attacks, an attack we didn't get to see, which makes the scene feel completely random and out of place with what came before it. Writer XXX does mention in the special features of the disc that the script was trimmed in places, which resulted in a pieced together story that hops from one action sequence to next. In fact, an entire character played by Melissa Prophet, who at first comes across as a love interest for Matt, is suddenly dropped from the movie with no warning. It's been said that she just wasn't working, so they just wrote her out of the movie altogether. Ouch.
In the end, though, this is a Chuck Norris action flick we are talking about, so be damned the story I say and serve me up that delicious action and incredibly cheesy one-liners. In that, Invasion U.S.A throws me so many rights my way, I was begging not only for a left, but for more.
Blu-ray
I'm not going to claim to be some sort of Chuck Norris connoisseur or anything. My experience with his movies up until now was Sidekicks, yes the Sidekicks starring Jonathan Brandis. I do know that long before he became a catchphrase and Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris starred in all sorts of action flicks in the late 70s and 80s, with some big hits like The Delta Force and Missing in Action. The movie on the cutting board today isn't one of those movies, but another action flick that is running on full Norris, Invasion U.S.A. The movie is directed by Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter director Joseph Zito, with special effects by Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero and Howard BurgerXXX. The movie stars Chuck Norris as the lead ass-kicking …show more content…
The plot for Invasion U.S.A is right there in the title. A maniacal madman, played by Richard Lynch, is determined to invade the U.S.A and create destruction and panic, killing anyone that gets in his way. The only person to have ever stopped Rostov before was the bearded wonder known as Chuck Norris, who has an unhealthy affinity for walking around with his shirt undone.
After Rostov decides to level an entire suburban neighbourhood, during X-mas no less (what's with foreign baddies and X-mas?), the government calls in Matt Hunter (Norris) to take down Rostov once in for all and Matt is determined to finish the job this time, as he previously spared Rostov's life. Matt makes sure let Rostov know that this time, he is going to die, going so far as spout the line "Time to die" during an interview on TV, just to enrage Rostov. After being called out on TV like that, he stubbornly puts aside the invasion plans to take down Matt instead, but you can't kill what can't be killed and Chuck Norris is unkillable. Rostov, plus his henchmen go head to head with Matt on several occasions, be it destroying an entire shopping mall, chasing down an explosive-rigged school bus full of children, or a highrise building with dozens of tanks surrounding it. The movie isn't short on explosive action …show more content…
One scene, in particular, has Matt randomly showing up a fairground, which was the site of one of Rostov's attacks, an attack we didn't get to see, which makes the scene feel completely random and out of place with what came before it. Writer XXX does mention in the special features of the disc that the script was trimmed in places, which resulted in a pieced together story that hops from one action sequence to next. In fact, an entire character played by Melissa Prophet, who at first comes across as a love interest for Matt, is suddenly dropped from the movie with no warning. It's been said that she just wasn't working, so they just wrote her out of the movie altogether. Ouch.
In the end, though, this is a Chuck Norris action flick we are talking about, so be damned the story I say and serve me up that delicious action and incredibly cheesy one-liners. In that, Invasion U.S.A throws me so many rights my way, I was begging not only for a left, but for more.
Blu-ray