The Delta Force 4K 1986 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

When dangerous terrorists capture American tourists and transport them to Beirut, the President sends Delta Force, a brigade of top-notch fighters under the command of Colonel Nick Alexander and Major Scott McCoy, to free them.

Shortly after being deployed to the Middle East, the elite rescue squad receives word that the women and children have been released, but the men are still being held in a seaside schoolhouse by a gang of fanatical criminals. Sweeping away everything in its path, through fire and explosions, the Delta Squad breaks into the terrorist camp and frees the hostages.

Review 4K Movie

The second half of Lee Marvin's final film is given over to the stuntmen, special effects team and armourers.

Based on the 1985 hijacking of an American airliner, it's set mainly in Beirut but inevitably shot in Israel (described by Robert Vaughan as "America's best friend in the Middle East"), the dirty dozen this time round being twelve swarthy, sweaty, wild-eyed sadists and psychos under the command of a moustached Robert Forster during the career limbo from which Tarantino rescued him ten years later.

Although Marvin is billed below Chuck Norris it's basically an ensemble piece. Personally directed by Cannon's Menahim Golan himself, it's a triumph of his and Globus's organisation and showmanship rather than actually filmmaking, having assembled an amazing cast which includes George Kennedy as a priest called William O'Malley and Martin Balsam in a rare overtly Jewish role. As usual there's a glamorous blonde fraulein aboard, but as played by Hanna Schygulla in her only English-language role she's a stewardess rather than one of the hijackers.