Invasion U.S.A.

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, a group of Cuban refugees on a boat sailing for the United States. They are at first met by what appears to be a U.S. Coast Guard boat, with armed personnel. The Guardsmen suddenly kill all the refugees and take several bags of cocaine hidden in the boat. It is revealed that the armed personnel were communist Latin American guerrillas dressed as U.S. Coast Guardsmen.The real Coast Guard eventually finds the boat full of the murdered Cubans off the coast of Florida. The FBI and the Miami Police Department arrive at the docks to investigate the murders. The communist guerrillas eventually land in Florida and exchange the drugs for weaponry from a drug dealer. They are led by Soviet operative Mikhail Rostov (Richard Lynch). Former CIA agent Matt Hunter (Chuck Norris), Rostov's former adversary, is asked by his CIA contact to come out of retirement, but he first refuses. However, Rostov demands that Hunter be killed before they can begin their operation, because Hunter is his former nemesis. Rostov and his gang fail to kill Hunter, but destroy his home in the Everglades. Hunter goes to meet his CIA contact, and tells him that he will come back.Later that night, hundreds of additional communist guerrillas invade the beaches of southern Florida. The guerrillas drive away from the beaches on several trucks. The guerrillas begin their assault all over the USA by destroying suburban homes. Another group of guerrillas (dressed as Miami police officers) attack a community center in South Miami killing several unarmed Cuban Americans.Meanwhile, the FBI has no idea who is behind the attacks. Hunter and the CIA believe that Rostov is behind the attacks. As terrorist acts continue in Miami, race riots and general chaos develop within the city. By now, the public believes that terrorists are behind the attacks.Next, the guerrillas attack a shopping mall where people are doing their Christmas shopping. During the attack, Hunter comes into the mall and engages the guerrillas. Hunter tracks down and kills the whole group that attacked the mall. The next day, National Guard troops are called up, while martial law and a curfew are declared.Over the next two days, Hunter foils a plan to bomb a church and attack a group of people waiting outside a store. In the process, Hunter kills Rostov's right hand man Nikko (Alexander Zale). Soon after, Hunter saves a school bus full of children from a bomb that was about to detonate and plants the bomb in the car of the two terrorists which explodes. In order to corner Rostov, Hunter coordinates a risky plan.The U.S. Government builds a command center in Atlanta, Georgia for the troops. At the command center, all 50 state governors and military officials meet how to stop the terror attacks. The FBI arrest Hunter as a vigilante for the killing of the terrorists and is taken to the command center in Atlanta; a plan orchestrated by Hunter to be put on the local news aware that Rostov is watching.With Rostov wanting Hunter dead, he orders all the guerrillas to invade the command center in Atlanta. After breaking into a depot and killing the security guard, the guerillas commandeer several armored trucks and launch a massed attack against the command center. When Rostov and his men find the building to be empty they discover that it's a trap.As the guerillas prepare to move out, the National Guard surrounds the command center supported with M-60 Patton tanks and hundreds of troops, using the arrest of Hunter as a trap. A climatic firefight begins as the National Guard and the guerillas engage each other in the streets with casualties to both sides.At the command center offices, Hunter uses a rocket launcher to blow up an enemy helicopter to cut off Rostov's route of escape. He then enages Rostov's men in a firefight at the offices of the building killing all of them until Hunter comes face-to-face with Rostov himself in which they exchange fire until they both run out of ammunition which leads to Hunter engaging Rostov in hand-to-hand combat. Outmatched by Hunter, Rostov retreats to another office and arms himself with another assault rifle from a dead guerilla. Hunter approaches Rostov from behind and says: "it's time, Rostov". When Rostov turns around to shoot him, Hunter finally kills him by shooting a bazooka rocket at close range, blowing Rostov to bits.Outside, the terror crisis and firefight finally ends when the few surviving guerrillas on the street surrender to the National Guard.

Tags: revenge, cult, murder, violence

Review:
The film begins with a laughably goofy set-up for a political thriller and ends up being a series of loosely connected action scenes with Chuck making his heroic appearance and taking out the badguys with the very bomb they intended to plant.
This movie is hilarious!!Chuck Norris is the funniest action hero since Charlie Sheen in "Hot Shots Part Deux"!
Highlights include the attempted bombing of a school bus and a massive shoot-out in a shopping mall (so good they copied it in Seagal's MARKED FOR DEATH).Things end with a massive battle that provides a maximum number of explosions for your dollar – even if one scene of an exploding van is repeated three times, each from a different angle in an attempt to make it look like a different vehicle.
Retired CIA agent , Norris , back on action when his former enemy, Lynch , invades Florida with a terrorist army.
Exciting , thrilling film depicting an one-man army who comes to the rescue of the United States when a terrorist attempts to overtake entire nation by means a violent full-fledged invasion carried out by the ¨Russian enemy¨ .
As Matt Hunter (Chuck Norris) goes back in action against a fearful enemy spy (Richard Lynch) and his troops who invade Florida .
The history deals about a nasty Russian and his hoodlums causing destruction and panic , versus Norris and American patriots who fight strongly to vanquish them.This is a routine actioner with Karate star Chuck Norris as retired CIA agent resulting go be one of the best roles he'd made to date , as he's nice as tough, cold, stubborn Matt Hunter .
The motion picture is produced by Cannon films ( Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus ) and professionally directed by Joseph Zito , a craftsman expert on terror and action genre (Delta Force one : the lost patrol , Red Scorpion, Friday the 13th : the last chapter,The prowler and Missing in action, again with Norris ).
This one is a doozy, even by their standards, and in some ways could be said to be the quintessential 80's action film: it's violent, features a lot of excessive explosions, is moronically jingoistic, and features drug-dealing Communist terrorists as the bad guys.
Richard Lynch goes on to film WEREWOLF with veteran actor R.C. Bates, the best worst movie ever made.Sit back and relax America, Chuck's got our back..
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsThe President's Man.Invasion USA.Walker:Texas Ranger.Kick Drugs Out Of America.......maybe Chuck Norris' longitivity as a screen action hero would have extended further had he not pledged this rather off-putting 'I Love America'isms in all his work.There's nothing wrong with his proudness of his heritage,but expecting people from around the globe to invest into what is clearly labeled as America's problem is perhap's going to be slightly controversial.Invasion USA itself spouts some new and original ideas for the genre,but let's itself down by how incoherently it is told.Norris' screen presense remains tightly wound throughout ,but he occupies suprisingly lesser time than one would have expected.The story of the Irab terrorist invasion of America is engaging,and the central villain is rather hissable as a guy who dos'nt care who he hurts as long as he meets his narrow minded ideals.The action sequences,the end shootout especially,are also done very well.If only there was'nt such a patronising tone to it,and more of a consistent plotline to follow.Look out for an early ,low key appearance from Billy Drago in another Norris film.***.
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.
'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."..
It's tempting to laugh the film off like some bad joke, but it's awfully hard to shake that nagging suspicion the film is meant to be taken with deadly seriousness.Ex-CIA agent Matt Hunter (Chuck Norris) lives a reclusive lifestyle in the swamplands of Florida.
"Invasion U.S.A." is likely Chuck Norris's most over the top vehicle, a political-paranoia thrill ride that gives B movie fans all of the mindless mayhem that they could possibly desire.
They're willing to kill anybody and everybody, including innocent families.Re-teaming Chuck with his "Missing in Action" director Joseph Zito, it stars the action icon as a retired special agent named Matt Hunter, who is the most likely candidate for saving the United States of America from savage terrorist murderers who are out to take over the entire country, slaughtering their victims, setting citizens against each other, and ensuring that they distrust authority.Man, could you ever doubt Chuck Norris?
Chuck Norris in the role of ex-CIA bad-ass Matt Hunter, clearly a man not to be messed with.
But apart from that this movie has a crazy amount of action, including the destruction of an entire suburban street,so if you are in the mood for a mindless, action packed movie, Invasion USA starring Chuck Norris is the movie you want to see.
The movie has several really good action scenes, and Chuck Norris is just so superior and so bad-a** compared to the terrorists that it's really entertaining.
People complain about Kevin Costner making self-indulgent films, but Chuck Norris has hit an all time low portraying himself as the ultimate bad-ass one-man army.
But if you're a Chuck Norris fan and are looking for an action film geared specifically for his talents, this movie is for you!.
Russian terrorists invade Florida, Chuck Norris, a retired CIA agent, comes out of retirement to kill the Russians and save America.
If you like Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, great action packed films that don't disappoint then Invasion U.S.A. is a great one to watch!.
And, the film continues with much of the same...these Russian agents murdering people for kicks and in the most ridiculous manner...such as with bazookas!Eventually, the leader of these scum attacks Hunter (Norris), as in a flashback you see that the psychotic leader of this group, Rostov (Richard Lynch), has a score settle with Hunter.
I thought this movie was going to be a laugh when I saw Chuck Norris zooming by on screen in his hovercraft of all things, looking like a mulleted Louisiana Bayou dweller which later you find out is Florida.
Well to bad cause they just did.There are parts of the movies that try to show some kind of American utopia, from a little girl putting up a star on a Christmas tree to consumers shopping happily even though there's this huge threat facing them to one of the worst scenes I've ever seen that made me groan furiously (it involves children, singing in unison, and a school bus).
Chuck Norris may not be the best actor ever, but you don't watch one of his movies for the acting, just for the action.Invasion USA was a credible example of the straight action Genre, such that it was in the 1980's.
I don't know what's worse - the whole 80's action scene Invasion USA is bathed in or having Russians as the predetermined bad guys.
Bad-ass action movie one of Chuck Norris best.
Chuck Norris is Matt Hunter and Invasion U.S.A. is his best film of all time.I would put this film with First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo, Hard Target, Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengeance, The Last Boy Scout, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and any other bad ass action movie.
"Invasion U.S.A." is another Chuck Norris vehicle that you watch hoping it will be bad enough to be entertaining, and end up being disappointed.
Like all Norris-fronted movies, it's merely boring and listless.The plot is something to do with a bad guy who hates Norris's character and tries to take on the United States with the apparent end goal of killing him.
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.
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..
If you like American Action movies and Chuck Norris you definitely should watch this one!
Oh, and there is a pesky reporter through the whole movie who has to document everything in an attempt to show how important freedom of the press is or some nonsense.Let me say I'm a fan of Chuck Norris and have seen most of his films, and despite the common assumption about the low quality of his films, some of his starring titles are actually pretty decent action cinema (see Missing In Action, The Delta Force, Code Of Silence).
The cinematography and action sequences are decent (the movie had a $10 million budget), but the script is horribly under-written, always hinting at a back story that never develops, and all the characters are really two dimensional.My biggest complaint about this film is the ridiculousness of the "invaders".
The body-count is pretty high, and there is no shortage of overkill typical of Norris' work; unarmed women and children being mowed down by automatic weapons, people getting shot point blank in the genitals, hookers being thrown from 2nd story windows...the film earns its hard R rating and then some.
Not one.The movie stars Chuck Norris as a former agent who is recruited to take down a vicious terrorist leader named Rostov, whose intent is to bring total anarchy upon America by blowing things that have an American-style image to them, such as churches, shopping malls and neighborhoods.This includes a really vile scene in which his gang use bazookas to destroy a suburban neighborhood.The movie was co-written by Norris and his brother, Aaron, a stunt coordinator for Lone Wolf and Code of Silence.
A metal cocaine straw up a girl's nose; gun-down-the-pants with shots fired; girl abducted and held outside a pick-up truck window!; grenade into a classic cadillac convertible; and the greatest scene of the film, Chuck strapping a bomb to a terrorist's car and saying, "Ya lose this?", followed by BANG!
Personally, this is my favorite Chuck Norris movie, and the writers overall did a great job on molding together a good plot for this film.The film was directed by 1980s directing legend, Joseph Zito.
So for this film to look as good as any action movie from that time says a great deal about what Zito was able to do.
Of course Chuck Norris is the lead and Richard Lynch is the main villain, but other actors like Alexander Zale, Billy Drago, Alex Colon, and Eddie Jones are in the film.
Bad guy, Richard Lynch with one of the creepiest faces on screen, plays this notorious terrorist, Rostov, who our retired hero (Chuck Norris) was forced to let go by the superior he worked for.
Movies this bad are played tongue-in-cheek these days, but for some old school, serious, rubbish action then check out Chuck's denims (and presumably psychic terrorist locating powers) as he saves the USA bydriving around Florida saying "it's time to die" to various jobbing waiters.
Chuck Norris stars as Matt Hunter (Persumably no relation to Michael Dudikoff's character in Avenging Force) a one man army who single handedly protects the US of A from Russian terrorists looking to take over our country for mostly obscure reasons.
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.
The moment someone mentions Chuck Norris, the first thing that usually pops into their head is a legendary bearded man who normally plays in action movies as an unstoppable one-man army and he can also round-house kick people in the face, oh and in this movie he has a pet armadillo which is really cute and a wise pet choice to have since they are hard like Chuck.Before I watched the movie I wasn't expecting much considering how averagely rated the film is but to my surprise I actually really enjoyed this movie.
Chuck Norris truly is a man of action and he delivers this film really well.Definitely recommend this movie, it's an awesome forgotten gem starring a great legendary action hero star..
"Invasion USA" with Chuck Norris is pretty much in style of those movies.
Joseph Zito directed this far-fetched action film that stars Chuck Norris as former CIA agent Matt Hunter, who is living peacefully in Florida when he is informed that his old nemesis Rostov(played by Richard Lynch) is planning an attack on Miami, leading an estimated 1000 man army to blow up houses and cause havoc.
There are some good action scenes in this one and there are some good Chuck moments though I prefer the film "Delta Force" to this one though I do find them somewhat similar even though that one took place outside the U.S. There is a nice scene involving a bus of kids and there are good scenes of panic and such, though nothing quite as good as other scenes from another kind of Russian invasion movie "Red Dawn".
Here's a list of things I discovered while watching this film:When a large amount of cocaine is under the floor of a boat, and the people on that boat need to be moved, you shoot them all and they'll not only miraculously fall away from the door to the cocaine, but not one bag of coke will be damaged, despite firing about a thousand bullets at the boat.All Cuban refugees that arrive in the Florida area wear identical plain white underwear and shorts.Chuck Norris can single-handedly take down tens of terrorists, but needs help to take on one alligator.Prostitutes carry flick knives.The guards to a big drug dealer only need to be shot at twice, and they'll then die of fear.
Who cares!) gets to his place via a rowboat, and comes alone.A variety of bad guys blow Hunter's house up with a lot of rocket launchers, machine guns and RPGs, with the intent of killing him - yet don't check that he's dead afterwards.Rocket launchers carry six rockets without the need to reload.Likewise, shotguns carry around 17 shots without the need to reload.Terrorists who have important business to get to don't do it, because they need to go into clubs to pick up cheap, old hookers who are slightly overweight.Between six guys with automatic weapons, they're unable to hit the windows in Chuck Norris's car, or put it out of commission.
1) Richard Lynch is Rostov the Russian terrorist who is bent on destroying the soft American peoples.2) Chuck Norris is Matt Hunter the American who has had enough of the ultra spy life and just wants to wrassle gators.3) They demonstrate how evil Rostov is and how bad ass Hunter is.
The acting isn't great, Lynch is an OK villain, a reporter Melissa Prophet turns up occasionally & then totally disappears about 20 minutes before it finishes while it was probably a very good decision to not give Chuck himself any dialogue expect for the odd one-liner & I thought Billy Drago was killed off far too early.Invasion U.S.A. is a top 80's action film, while not as good as some it's right up there & maybe the best thing Norris has done along with Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990), definitely worth a watch..
the basic plot of the movie is that a russian terrorist has plans to invade the US and NOBODY IN AMERICA except the chuck norris character was prepared for this.
Quite possibly Chuck Norris' best movie, Invasion USA is incredibly entertaining and fun.
Invasion USA is a one man army movie starring karate man Chuck Norris.
This movie had the classic bad guys doing horrible things, trying to take over and only one man can stop them, that's right Chuck Norris.
That terrorist is now determined to kill Matt Hunter at all costs because he knows that if there's one man who can stop the invasion of America, Hunter is that man.The thing about Chuck Norris that I like so very much is that he almost looks like your everyday guy.