![]() 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. OK, maybe at the end it gets a little too repetitive.A flight leaving Athens is hijacked by two men wielding grenades - a third was arrested in the airport before he could board. and at the same time is so bad it's good. The only quality is that the special effects are surprisingly not that bad(although they are in slow-motion) for a TV movie. They are just playing guys with guns(and, lets not forget, superpowers). The cast is made of unknown actors, which will probably remain unknown since they don't even play characters. That is if they are not laughing out loud at the bad acting, cheesy dialogues and incredibly poor story. By this point, nobody cares since they have been put to sleep by another laughable slow-motion action scene. And if this supernatural power fails, they have some kind of regeneration superpower, which is all they need to kill the complete non-American army that stands between them and victory. ![]() And this squad should be called "Invincible Slow-Motion Bullet-Dodging Force", since they seem to have supernatural powers that help them to dodge bullets. I know I used "slow-motion action scenes" a lot, but that is because every action scene in this movie is in, you guessed it, slow-motion. Can anyone give me a reason why only one American dies in this movie, and when he does, it is supposed to be a very emotional scene, yet when the Operation Delta Force team kills hundreds of Russians, in slow-motion action scenes, or thousands of Arabs, also in slow-motion action scenes, you are supposed to cheer and say "Take that, you non-American monsters!".
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