A movie that dumps complicated geopolitics and the motivations of the actual event in favor of a cops-and-robbers shoot-’em-up. One that tells a story just close enough to the truth to remind people what they saw on the news not long ago. Delta Force is a pornographic, exploitative revenge fantasy. Less than a year after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Delta Force was unleashed on audiences. After an 18-day standoff in the plane, all the passengers were released and the men responsible escaped. The flight crew shut down two of the engines and convinced the terrorists that the plane would no longer fly. Navy diver Robert Stethem was beaten with an armrest, shot in the head and dumped on the tarmac. The flight was diverted to Beirut, where it refueled and flew to Algiers to take on a group of 12 more armed men, including the man previously arrested in Athens, if you can believe that.Ī German-American flight attendant was asked to single out the Jewish and American passengers. A third hijacker was late for the boarding and was arrested. In the summer of 1985, two men armed with grenades and guns took control of TWA Flight 847 as it flew out of Athens. Which of course makes the movie way, way worse. A forgettable relic of jingoistic era we’re better off remembering with disdain … or simply forgetting. Hostages are rescued, the good guys win and the bad guys are punished. Chuck Norris stops a convoy of terrorists with the aid of a motorcycle that spews missiles. They’re members of Delta Force - never mind their characters’ names - and they unleash the full fury of America’s Special Operations Forces on some terrorist ass. Then Lee Marvin and Chuck Norris take care of business. The hijackers beat one of their hostages, a Navy seaman, with an armrest before putting a round in his head and tossing him from the plane.Ī press conference is held and the pilot of the doomed flight wears an idiot grin while leaning out of the window of the cockpit while a terrorist holds a gun to his head. The plane is diverted to Beirut and refueled before flying to Algiers, where the bad guys are joined by 12 of their comrades. A flight leaving Athens is hijacked by two men wielding grenades - a third was arrested in the airport before he could board.
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