Invasion USA.

[Neville]

One of my favourite Chuck Norris flicks. (Yeah, I admit I watch this stuff now and then). Not only is full of the usual and old-fashioned paranoia, but also of wild ideas and plenty of madness.

My favourite scene: a couple is making love on the beach (suppossed to be Florida, since invaders comew from Cuba) and then a ship stops before them and marching soldiers march over them! Never though I would see on a Norris flick such a clever use of horror movie (see Friday the 13th) cliches! Or maybe it is a political metaphor? The crushing of freedom under the boots of Evil Comunism (TM)? To make things better, on a recent VHS edition, the summary stated that invasion arrived from Alaska, not exactly the place where you'd make love in a beach  in swimning clothes. Or maybe I lost that "Northern exposure" episode.

[J.R.]

I admit to taping this one about ten years ago and I pop in in very rarely for a laugh. I love the scene where the terrorists watch a touching display of a dad and two kids decorating their christmas tree, enraptured in the holiday season. Then the baddies blow them up with a bazooka. Hee-hee. Chuck Norris specializes in making two types of films- utter crap and crap that you can have some fun with on a weekend afternoon. In the latter are the Delta Force movies, Top Dog and of coure Return Of The Dragon. Will there ever be a more heart-warming sight than Bruce Lee ending Chuck's existence?

[Steven Millan]

             Many of Chuck Norris' early movies are sheer bona fide classics("The Octagon","An Eye For An Eye","Silent Rage","Breaker,Breaker",and the heavily undrerated,and extremely violent "Focred Vengeance"),and were much superior over the badly bloated,over-budgeted Golan/Globus collaborations("Hellbound[a.k.a. "Cold To The Touch"],"Firewalker","Braddock:Missing In Action 3"),which were mainly hit-and-miss projects(the better ones were "Missing In Action","Missing In Action II:The Beginning"[which was filmed first],"Delta Force 2{Columbian Connection,Operation Stranglehold],"The Hitman"),and(of course)those during-"Walker,Teaxs Ranger"/later career wonders which were either major duds("Sidekicks"),too-ultra-violent for their target audience outings(the family movie "Top Dog",the made-for-TV "Eddie's War:Bound By Honor"),and the completely out-of-place "Forest Warrior"(which Chuck and his son Mike are following up with the similarly themed "Belles Of Innocence",as his his post-"Walker" film project)..
             "Invasion U.S.A." does contain the rather infamous dialogue line ,"It's time ....to die!!!",which definitely rivals "Sudden Impact" 's "Go ahead...make my day!!!",and any sly one-liner that Quentin Tarantino can try to come up with.

[Lee]

Steven, you and me think alot alike!:)  
When you mentioned Breaker, Breaker I went "AW YEAH!" That odd movie is always welcome viewing on my tv. I just watched it for the first time in along while a few weeks ago. I was looking for something to watch on cable and when I saw it was on I flipped over there real quick so I wouldn't miss anymore. That ending is so wild you gotta dig it!

[J.R.]

I turned off the Hitman after seeing the guy with his limbs hacked off and the other guy forced to consume large amounts of pork intersperced with Chuck teaching a troubled youth about model airplanes. It was just uncomfortable and weird. And then that's what every episode of Walker was about in its last five seasons: Walker helping troubled youths by kicking people in the gut. Remember the first few seasons, when he'd get into druglord strongholds using a jetpack and then he'd spend ten straight minutes kicking people in the gut? In my mind Chuck did his only truly great work in the Total Gym infomercials.

[john]

Don't forget the mystical influence many episodes had, like when Walker found a girl buried alive by staring off into the distance and having a vision.

[Flangepart]

I've never been a big Norris fan, or as i call 'em, Colijah.(The wodden indian). Nice moves, but....I liked Code of Silence because of the actors in the police squad, the shoots outs, and the master of cheese, Henry Silva. Quick: who was the better actor, Chuck or the Robot tank? Hah, we both know the answer to that one. Does Chuck have termite insurance, 'ya think?

[Neville]

I hate "Walker", but since it is the only show on sunday mornigs I keep on watching it despite what I see doesn't ever fail in making me frentic. That some years in the army and a karate course made Norris famous doesn't give him the right to turn into a preacher and defend it as the Norris solution to all problems of western society (tm). Favourite moments:

a) Last words of C.D. Parker before dying: "God bless the Texas Republic". And I thought the series took place in the U.S.A.

b) Any of the occassional guest appearences by God (no kiding), often in shape of sunny windows or mysterious winds.

c) Norris disguised as a mexican inmigrant. This "disguise" consists of adding black dye to hair and beard. Funny thing is that there are actually blond and red-haired mexicans, so it was completely unnecesary.

d) Norris kicking the devil itself till death in a Halloween special.

[Flangepart]

Ewwww....glad i don't watch it,even more. That "God bless the Texas republick" is an american thing. Its just state pride. In Ohio, we call our selves "Buckeyes" after a regional tree. Our Collage team is the Ohio State Buckeyes. But, other then our collage football rivals in Michigan, ask someone in, say, Idhao, "How bout them buckeyes?"  the useual response is "Huh?"  Heh....Mix that Holloween special with the Star Wars Xmas special, and you could rate it as an offensive wepon! Could kill brain cells just by handleing the tape!