Invasion USA
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VHS Movie Reviews of Invasion USA
Movie Review: A Cool Action Flick!
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm very impressed with the audio and picture quality for this movie. If you're looking for good old Chuck Norris with his smooth and slick style then you should get this title. The plot is kinda one way but if you're looking for mere entertainment, then get this title.Movie Review: Hilarious Trash
Summary: 1 Stars
Back in the 1980s, when I was influenced by all the anti-Communist propaganda of the time, I found this movie to be worth watching. I hated the terrorists for killing innocent people, and I loved it when Chuck meted out justice his way.Now that the Cold War is over, the anti-Communist theme has become dated and absurd. I still watch the movie if nothing else is available, but am now better able to analyze it in a more enlightened way.
The story is ludicrous. I found the mall battle hilarious, because one terrorist is going put-put with his submachine gun after Chuck crashes the party with his pickup and goes on to ram another terrorist (the special effects of this scene weren't even good, as one could clearly see a dummy being rammed).
The movie obviously displays a fiercely pro-U.S.A. message, although I don't see how two unescorted landing craft full of terrorists being able to land on Florida's beaches could be anything but an insult to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard.
The scene of the terrorist commandeering and shooting up an empty office building was probably the stupidest scene of the movie. What was the motive behind this? And it wasn't hard to notice that all of the terrorists downstairs having it out with the National Guard (in a shootout that was largely one-sided) were dark-skinned, while the terrorist boss and his crew who landed by helicopter were all light-skinned. Coincidence, or something more profound?
In the wake of 09/11, more Americans will pop a title like this back into their VCRs and be inspired by what they want the War on Terrorism to be like. That shows us how little some of us continue to try to separate fantasy from reality.
Movie Review: A Cold-War Comic Opera
Summary: 3 Stars
In contrast to the air strike-like surgical precision of Cold War action movies like "Red Dawn," Norris' star vehicle is an absurd sledghehammer (perhaps one like a clown would use, made from bright red plastic), bludgeoning our brains into a goofy submissive fear of communism and a worshipful adoration of guys with feathered blond hair, grim, constipated facial expressions, and wearing over-tight action karate jeans (Chuck Norris once advertised his own brand of "slim, trim, good looking pants" in 70s martial arts magazines . . . "You can stretch, jump, kick - do any activity - the Action Jeans will never bind your legs and won't rip out"). As a rip-roaring action movie of "Homeland Defense," "Invasion U.S.A." throws down a philosophical gauntlet to "First Blood," Stallone's noble plea for the little guy-for the long-haired vietnam vet with the dirty green army coat who has been left behind and forgotten by gentrification, the Texas oil boom, and the kinder, gentler nation. In contrast to Rambo's tragic vet, Chuck Norris' bayou warrior is the "good dog," the Oliver North doing the bidding of his masters (albeit in a renegade and unorthodox fashion-I mean, what idiot fires a LAW anti-tank rocket from a shoulder-held launcher at a coked-up Russian operative named "Rostov" from a distance of ten feet inside an office building?). This servility and straightforward sense of purpose contrasts dramatically with Rambo as the outcast prodigal son, returned from a Southeast Asian prison rathole to show America its tarnished image in the mirror.
In Norris' movie, Arabs, Russians, and assorted other dark people drive through peaceful suburban neighborhoods with bazookas, stupidly ignoring sites with strategic military value (like bridges and power stations) in favor of maximum innocent body counts. They even attempt to blow up a yellow school bus full of kids with Partridge Family lunchboxes, for God's sake.
But in all of this madness and Cold War paranoia, one thing becomes clear: If you're a true jungle fighter, you can hunt anything with a knife, no matter what the small-town cops say; no matter what the odds stacked against you. You only need to remember the face of your father, and it can't hurt to follow Chuck Norris' articulate advice from his 1996 book "The Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions to Real Problems":
"As an actor-producer-writer of my own films and television series, I am often confronted with situations involving many people, some of them angry, belligerent, or defensive, and everyone looking to me for a solution to the problem. When that happens, I control my breathing, and it always restores calm, confidence, and strength. It also allows me to bring my emotions and thoughts under control, so that I can concentrate on what's at hand."
Whatever, Chuck. You name it.
Movie Review: Not a Bad Norris Flick
Summary: 3 Stars
This should have been called Invasion Miami or Invasion Florida.There is talk about "attacks" all over the US but the films budget didn't show any of that. The action is limited to Florida.
Lucky the BigBadGuy stays in that area since he has a grudge against Chuck Norris's character.
Norris does NO wrong in this movie. He always has the upper hand.
It's a bit dark; even on DVD. It's not very long. There are no real extras here. The amazon.com price is good. The wife wanted it for her collection.
Movie Review: A Norris Camp Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
When terrorists invade America and start blowing stuff up, who are you going to call? MATT HUNTER (aka CHUCK NORRIS)! Although the film may play a little less silly today, Invasion U.S.A. is still the most intoxicatingly stupid thing Norris has ever done. It is pure, don't take it seriously for a moment fun as an old enemy (the always hissable Richard Lynch) of MATT HUNTER (aka CHUCK NORRIS) brings in a multi-cultural group of thugs to bring America to its knees. MATT HUNTER (aka CHUCK NORRIS) kicks back, and hard. The movie is just one ludicrous action set piece after another. The gunfight in the crowded shopping mall and following car chase is the arguable highlight of this triple decker slice of decadent escapist trash. A must see and a must have for all Norris fans. Highly recommended.