Directed by: Joesph Zito
Starring: Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet, and Billy Drago
Awesome!
Quite possibly Chuck Norris’ best movie, Invasion USA is incredibly entertaining and fun. Completely disregard some of the more boring Chuck-fests you may have seen in the past, this one is a completely different beast and blows them all away!
Former CIA agent Matt Hunter (The Chuckster) just wants to be left alone to live in his shack on the Florida bayou. But there’s a major wrinkle in his peaceful plan: the diabolical Rostov (Richard Lynch) is planning a full-scale Invasion of...you guessed it...the U.S.A! But before Rostov can achieve his evil ends, he must get one thing out of the way - Matt Hunter of course. Plus they have a history together. With the help of McGuire (Prophet), who looks like the way Britney Spears may have looked had she been in an 80’s Chuck Norris movie, Matt Hunter takes on more baddies than anyone before or since, but he’s tough. Very tough.
Quite possibly Chuck Norris’ best movie, Invasion USA is incredibly entertaining and fun. Completely disregard some of the more boring Chuck-fests you may have seen in the past, this one is a completely different beast and blows them all away!
Former CIA agent Matt Hunter (The Chuckster) just wants to be left alone to live in his shack on the Florida bayou. But there’s a major wrinkle in his peaceful plan: the diabolical Rostov (Richard Lynch) is planning a full-scale Invasion of...you guessed it...the U.S.A! But before Rostov can achieve his evil ends, he must get one thing out of the way - Matt Hunter of course. Plus they have a history together. With the help of McGuire (Prophet), who looks like the way Britney Spears may have looked had she been in an 80’s Chuck Norris movie, Matt Hunter takes on more baddies than anyone before or since, but he’s tough. Very tough.
THIS is the way action movies should be done. It has every possible ingredient for success: A tough, no-nonsense hero, an extremely nefarious villain, highly-charged action scenes, and plenty of surprises and humor. Also a large ingredient is the unabashed patriotism. No evil commies are going to come to our shores and take over. Not a chance. At least not while the surly Matt Hunter is in charge. Fan favorite Richard Lynch is evil with aplomb. Chuck Norris is...well...you know who Chuck Norris is. Billy Drago has an early role here and it would have been cool to see more of him. That’s really the only quibble with this fine slab of entertainment. And even that is sort of unfair because of hindsight.
Invasion
U.S.A. is what happens when quality meets quantity. copious
shooting, millions of bullets, endless ammo, tons of explosions and people
being blown up by the house-load. The entire army is called in at the
end. It was the 80’s, and action was huge. Why not make a HUGE action movie? Director
Joseph Zito, known then for his slasher movie work, brings some of that
mentality on board here, with violence, shocks and scares added into the mix.
He later directed Red Scorpion, among other action flicks. The
man knows his craft, that’s for sure.
A crown jewel in the Cannon canon, Invasion U.S.A. is one of those movies that
feels more like a ride than a film. It gets our highest marks. See it tonight!
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