Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection

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Movie
German title Delta Force 2 -
The Columbian Connection
Original title Delta Force 2:
The Colombian Connection
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Aaron Norris
script James Bruner
production Yoram globe
music Frédéric Talgorn
camera João Fernandes
cut Daniel Candib
occupation

Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection is a 1990 American action film directed by Aaron Norris and starring Chuck Norris as Colonel Scott McCoy. The film was produced by the film production company Cannon Films for Paramount Channel.

It is the sequel to the 1986 film Delta Force .

action

The US drug search DEA has been after Ramon Cota, a powerful drug lord from San Carlos, for years . His arrest repeatedly fails. DEA agents are even killed in an attempt in Rio de Janeiro . Therefore, the Delta Force is now being set on the cocaine trafficker. The officer Colonel Scott McCoy succeeds be nailed down in a spectacular operation above the clouds Cota.

With a deposit payment in the millions, Cota is released and can continue his business. In revenge for the arrest and a blow to McCoy's friend and comrade Major Chavez, Cota kills his pregnant wife and 13-year-old brother. Chavez then attempts an assassination attempt on Cota on his own. He is captured together with three DEA agents and then executed using poison gas . A video of this is sent to the Americans. The DEA agents remain in Cota's power as leverage.

Because of the video, US President San Carlos is threatening to cut development aid if nothing is done against Cota. The San Carlos government appears to give in and guarantees the destruction of the drug labs. It also allows the entry of an unarmed US reconnaissance unit to convince itself of the destruction. General Taylor decides, however, a commando operation to free the hostages and the arrest of Cota by Colonel McCoy. Two days before the start of operations, McCoy is dropped off in the jungle in order to make his way to Cota's villa - which resembles a military fortress. The rest of the team is supposed to wait until McCoy has freed the hostages and sabotaged the defense before attacking. After laboriously climbing a steep wall, McCoy succeeds in infiltrating the fortress, freeing the prisoners and killing Cota's bodyguard. Shortly thereafter, however, he was arrested and put in the gas chamber that had previously been used for the execution of his friend Chavez.

In the meantime it has been found that the government of San Carlos did not destroy the drug laboratories as agreed, but only targets that were of no military value. The Delta Force then prepared to attack by armed with machine guns and hand grenades that were previously hidden from the authorities in the helicopter. The helicopter itself also turns out to be a combat helicopter that has a large number of missiles and ammunition at its disposal.

Shortly before McCoy suffocates on the gas, the Delta Force shoots the entire area, which also hits the gas chamber. McCoy is able to free himself by jumping through the damaged pane of glass and flee with Cota and the freed DEA agent Page in Cota's car. In the meantime, the people of the Delta Force destroy a lot of infrastructure and kill a large number of the area guards to enable McCoy to escape. They also take in the other two DEA agents, but the evacuation of McCoy, Page and Cota fails.

The escape leads the three to a village in the jungle; here the Delta Force helicopter can take out almost all of McCoy's remaining pursuers and pick up Page. McCoy also owes it to the courage of a local who pays with her life for it that he can again confront Cota, who has fled in the fray. To escape the approaching San Carlos Army helicopter gunship, McCoy attaches himself and Cota to ropes hanging from the Delta Force helicopter. The helicopter takes a course towards the sea, where an aircraft carrier is already waiting. Cota threatens McCoy that he will be released, double cocaine exports to the United States, and kill him. But then his rope, which one of his survivors had damaged during an attempt at rescue, breaks and the drug lord falls into the depths.

criticism

“Mercenary adventure running in the usual channels of the strikingly superficial action cinema; a string of genre clichés with amateur actors and a tension-free permanent fireworks. "

- Lexicon of international film

Cinema noted: "But where McCoy shows up, grass no longer grows ...", which led to the conclusion: "The proof: Whoever laughs at Norris is dead ..."

At actionfreunde.de it was said: "'Delta Force 2' is reactionary and not particularly intelligent, but the genre fan gets straightforward action here ...". The director pulls "the surprise-poor plot through exciting and straightforward and shows [e] that he knows how to staging".

The conclusion of the online film database was: “Without a doubt, 'Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection' is aimed at action purists who are also happy to make friends with politically incorrect and average budgeted films. The film is lousy stupid, has a plot to tear your hair, but is well staged. The actors are not exquisite, but they fully embrace their roles. Shootings, martial arts, impressive explosions and a really cool Chuck Norris take care of the rest. It's a shame that Cannon's time was over after that. Probably the last really good Chuck Norris film ... "

Also CineXtreme put down to the action and felt had "rarely seen a sinister villain as Billy Drago as a drug lord Ramon Cota" that one. “The pace is increasing again compared to its predecessor and the violence shown is a few degrees harder.” It was also said that the flick scores “with the extremely cool General Tayler, played by John P. Ryan, who always , but also always have a casual saying on my lips and regularly fool the observer from San Carlos and degrade it to a toddler ”.

continuation

In the following year, a third part of the Delta Force trilogy, Delta Force 3 - The Killing Game , which was shot without Chuck Norris, however. It received bad reviews when it appeared.

Versions and DVD

Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection , was released in Germany in two versions: an unabridged FSK-18 release and an FSK-16 version shortened by 5:10 minutes, which is broadcast on television.

The film was released uncut on DVD by MGM .

background

  • Cota's first arrest takes place on a fictional American Travelways Airlines (ATW) plane . The plane that is hijacked in Delta Force 1 belongs to the same airline.
  • The film is known by four titles: Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold , Delta Force 2 - The Columbia Connection , Delta Force 2: The Columbian Connection and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
  • Despite the title, the country Cota lives in is not called Colombia , but San Carlos . However, the flag of San Carlos is the same as that of Colombia.
  • The film was preceded by a long development period. Earlier in development, a film called Delta Force 2: Spitfire was planned, with Michael Dudikoff and Steve James to star. This was followed by the idea of staging the cooperation between US and Russian special forces with Delta Force 2: America's Red Army . Both projects were not implemented.
  • Five crew members died on May 16, 1989 while filming in the Philippines in a helicopter crash, which is why the film is also dedicated to them.
  • Shooting lasted - with a six-week break due to the accident - from March to September 1989. The film was not released until August 1990, after it had previously been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 1990 . In two weeks it grossed around $ 7 million at the US box office, proving to be an economic failure.
  • After Braddock - Missing in Action 3 from 1988, this is the second film in which Aaron Norris directed a production with his brother Chuck in the lead role. More films followed.
  • The film's 1991 indexing was lifted in February 2016.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2004 (PDF; test number: 64 489 V / DVD).
  2. ^ Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Delta Fore 2 - The Columbian Connection (1990) - Action with Chuck Norris - unabridged for the first time In: Cinema. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection at actionfreunde.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  5. ^ Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990) in ofdb.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold - Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990) at cin-ex.blogspot.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, Hille 2013, p. 250.
  8. ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 252.
  9. ^ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 255.
  10. ^ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 256.
  11. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on February 26, 2016.