Synopsis
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
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Cast
- Chuck NorrisMajor Scott McCoy
- Lee MarvinColonel Nick Alexander
- Shelley WintersEdie Kaplan
- Martin BalsamBen Kaplan
- Joey BishopHarry Goldman
- Robert ForsterAbdul
- Lainie KazanSylvia Goldman
- George KennedyFather O'Malley
- Hanna SchygullaIngrid
- Susan StrasbergDebra Levine
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
I thought this was going to be another hilarious disaster movie, but I was wrong. The Delta Force settles down into a well-made action film that tantalizes us with its parallels to real life. - 70
IGN
The movie is not Oscar caliber by any means. The acting is spare and without much passion.. Sure the movie is worth one or two stars at best. But it's a hell of a ride nonetheless. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Despite its large scale, it plays like a formula TV movie. [14 Feb 1986, p.C4] - 40
Time Out
Students of minimal acting techniques can compare Marvin and Norris: impassivity versus vacancy. Students of the disaster film should write a short thesis on why George Kennedy is ubiquitous. Everyone else might wonder why the film is so virulently anti-Arab. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Golan barely touches on the fundamental conflicts that created the situation there and simply offers a pack of wild-eyed, swarthy Arabs preying on passive, middle-aged Jews represented by the likes of Winters, Balsam, Bishop, and Kazan. Such horrors do happen, but they do not have to be presented as a cartoon. - 30
The New York Times
The 1986 film all others will have to beat for sheer, unashamed, hilariously vulgar vaingloriousness. - 30
Washington Post
Golan and Bruner, in other words, have made the Holocaust into just another tear-jerking tool for the Cannon Productions shlockenspiel. This is called "chutzpah." The unoffended will find that the movie doesn't even deliver on its own sordid level. There isn't any action till 70 minutes into the film. - 25
Chicago Tribune
The script plays like ''The Dirty Dozen'' saving the passenger list of ''Airport `77.''
