The greatest movie ever made..!

A Brilliant Conflict

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

This is the greatest movie ever made. After this one, filmmakers should have just given up. It has everything. Explosions, gunfire, and Chuck Norris!The bad guys hatch a scheme to invade the USA. But there's one thing they didn't bargain for. That's right! They didn't bargain for Chuck Norris! It's got some great action, did I mention explosions? And lots of Chuck Norris kicking the crap out of bad guys. It's a great movie for the whole family.

Invasion U.S.A. (1985)** 1/2 (out of 4) Absolutely insane madness about nut Mikhail Rostov (Richard Lynch) who plans to attack America by killing anyone in sight with hopes that the American people will turn against one another. His plans are going great until Matt Hunter (Chuck Norris) decides to ruin it.INVASION U.S.A. was panned by critics when it was originally released. They attacked the film for being mindless, stupid and just an excuse for non-stop violence. At the same time, those reasons for hating it are exactly why so many fans have flocked to the movie over the years and has made it one of the most popular from Cannon. In fact, I'd argue that from their entire catalog only DEATH WISH 3 is more insane and over-the-top.So, if you listen to the critics then everything they've said is true. The screenplay for this thing is downright stupid and whoever came up with the idea for this story must have been on some sort of drugs or alcohol. There's really not an inch of logic to be found anywhere in this film because you could have hours worth of debate on how so much doesn't add up. With that said, if you actually come to a Chuck Norris movie from Cannon expecting logic then you obviously don't know what you're doing.INVASION U.S.A. is without question one of the wildest, most insane and over-the-top action movies that you're ever going to see. There's really not too much of a plot but instead we just get one violent scene after another. There are countless scenes that happen for no reason than to show us violence. It's really amazing that Cannon was able to do all of these explosions because their budget must have been a lot higher than what they were used to. There are so many things getting shot up and blown up that you can't help but just kick back and have fun with it.I'm really not sure how many people get killed in this movie but it has to feature one of the largest body counts in history. Of course, Norris doesn't really have to give a performance here but instead he just has to look and act cool while blowing people away. Lynch is also a lot of fun in his role as the nut. Melissa Prophet plays the photographer but in my opinion this role should have been cut out since it really doesn't add anything. INVASION U.S.A. is about as crazy as you're going to get so kick back and enjoy.

There's a 20-minute stretch in 'Invasion U.S.A.' where Chuck Norris' Matt Hunter character keeps showing up out of the blue to thwart various Commie terror attacks that his character would have had no clue were about to take place. We all know the real Chuck Norris is omniscient, but who knew that his characters were as well? 'Invasion U.S.A.' is high on dead bodies, and low on logic and common sense, but it's a fairly well made film from the technical side, and seeing Norris operate at the peak of his hairy-chested machismo is always a treat.Best Chuckism; "If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights you're gonna be beggin' for a left.".

Chuck Norris's second film with director Joseph Zito (the previous one being Missing In Action), Invasion USA sees the bearded karate champ playing one-man army Matt Hunter, tasked with stopping Russian terrorist Mikhail Rostov (Richard Lynch), who has invaded Miami with his personal army in order to somehow throw the whole of America into chaos. Outdoing even Bill Drago's baby-killing rapist drug-lord from Delta Force 2 in the evil stakes, Rostov massacres a boatload of defenceless Cuban refugees, kills Hunter's best buddy John Eagle (Dehl Berti), obliterates the residents of a peaceful suburban neighbourhood as they celebrate Christmas, and orders his soldiers to shoot kids at a community centre, blow up a church full of worshippers, and plant a bomb on a school bus.With a slightly bigger budget than normal for a Norris film ($12m), Zito is able to destroy lots of stuff and crash quite a few vehicles as his star goes in search of the despicable villain. Not that finding Rostov and his men is difficult for Hunter: Invasion USA proves unintentionally funny as Chuck conveniently turns up in his truck, twin Uzis at the ready, whenever and wherever the baddies are causing trouble. And the Chuck-les don't end there: giggles are to be had every time the wooden star solemnly spouts his truly awful one-liners, although for my money, the most amusing moments are when he dives behind office partitioning—the real flimsy stuff—to protect himself from enemy gun-fire, and uses his uncanny sixth sense to detect two gunmen hiding in another room (successfully killing them by blowing huge holes in the wall with his grenade launcher).Not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, Invasion USA is the epitome of cheezy 80s action—a brainless yet moderately entertaining 'Saturday night with beer' movie, with all that that entails.