Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One (1990) User Reviews (3)

Insane...but not prime Fred

[tarbosh22000 · 5/10 · 14 July 2010]

You gotta love those Italian cash-ins. Just look at the title. They just took "Delta Force" and "Commando" and put them together, whether they belong that way or not. Then they added the nonsensical subtitle "Priority Red One". Usually a "One" doesn't come AFTER a "II". This, right there in the title, should give you a really clear idea what the rest of the movie is like.

In this confusing jumble, sometimes we are in a military base where "American" people walk around a lot. Their footsteps are louder than their voices. Apparently there are terrorists on the loose and only Samuel Back (Williamson) and General McCailland (Johnson) can stop them. They also believe a mole is in their base and they have to find him. Meanwhile, Brett Haskell (Richard Hatch, not the naked guy from "Survivor" who went to jail for tax evasion), the head of Delta Force, whatever that is, teams up with a mysterious woman (Giannina Facio) to fight the terrorists...or something like that.

"DFCII: PRO" is actually kind of a fun film to watch, even though it is riddled with flaws and is too long, because it is so weird and off-kilter. In between stock footage of airplanes, and the elderly Van Johnson in a fighter jet, we get an overdubbed Fred Williamson talking about some sort of "poop sheet" and characters looking into the camera at every turn. Because this is an Italian production, the action scenes are sometimes actually gore scenes and there is some English-as-a-second-language dialogue such as: "Sometimes nothing makes sense anymore" and "Sgt. Coleman spilled the beans before he bit the dust". Also they are working on the top-secret "Operation Leonard" -- quite possibly one of the worst operation names...maybe ever. But it's funny.

A highlight for Van Johnson is during one of his look-in-the-camera moments. He screams at us: "I LEARNED ABOUT IT ON THE FLIGHT!!!!" and he seems like a disgruntled grandpa.

Fan-favorite Fred "The Hammer" Williamson looks bored and this is a total paycheck for the great dude. It is great to see him, but his voice is weird, and this is not prime Fred. Speaking of odd overdubbing, the character of Coleman speaks in halting, herky-jerky fashion and sounds a lot like William Shatner. Did we mention Hatch goes fishing with a crossbow? It's all pretty nuts...

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Give me a break!

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 7 February 2018]

The team behind the first DELTA FORCE COMMANDO return for one final mission, with the exception of the leading man Brett Baxter Clark who has been replaced by BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's Richard Hatch. Good luck making sense of this muddled mess of a military thriller, which is so cheap and sloppily made that it serves as a fitting mark of the final, dying days of the Italian film industry. The movie was shot in Yugoslavia and involves men on an air base hunting for a terrorist in the desert surrounding them. A cigar-chomping Fred Williamson is the highlight here, but he doesn't get much screen time and Hatch by comparison is rather bland. The film has no decent action scenes and is instead slow and confusing throughout, with no real reason to involve yourself in the plotting. A beyond recognition Van Johnson plays in support, and there's a minor role for DEMONS star Bobby Rhodes.

Very unenjoyable!

[Brianweimer73 · 12 May 2002]

I seriously doubt that anyone can make sense out of this muddled mess of a movie. There is only one redeeming quality of Delta Force Commando II, and that is Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica). He is a very good actor, even in bad movies like this. The plot involves something to do with retrieving nuclear missiles , and hunting down a terrorist in the middle eastern desert. The plot is difficult to determine, even after reading the back of the video box. Evidently this is an Italian production, or something like that. Other than Richard Hatch and Fred Williamson, I couldn't place any of the other actors. The editing and pacing of this film is so confusing, it is hard to keep track of it all. Forget keeping track, it's hard enough to keep interested long enough to care. This is a low-budget foreign film that will probably never,ever be released on DVD, thank God. I haven't seen any of the other Delta Force Commando movies, but perhaps they're better than this one. One can only hope, at any rate. This was very unenjoyable from start to finish, and leaves you feeling wasteful of the 100 minutes you invested in this movie.