Deke Slater is the new President's Man. He's working with his mentor Josh McCord (Chuck Norris) and Que on missions around the globe. President Adam Mayfield (Robert Urich) has a new mission for the secret group. An Arab terrorist group had smuggled a nuclear bomb into the U. S.
This was filmed before 9/11 and was aired months after the event. The recounting of the terrorist attacks is both powerful and out-of-date. It's not that they could do anything about it. In a way, it's too on-the-nose and also wrong-headed. I don't think anybody wants a fictional fight against Islamic terrorists when there is a real one on the nightly news. As for the movie itself, the story holds together better than the first one. It's still stuck strictly in B-TV territories. It's not good enough to be realistic and it's definitively not trying to be stylish. It's Chuck's 80's work over and over again.
This was filmed before 9/11 and was aired months after the event. The recounting of the terrorist attacks is both powerful and out-of-date. It's not that they could do anything about it. In a way, it's too on-the-nose and also wrong-headed. I don't think anybody wants a fictional fight against Islamic terrorists when there is a real one on the nightly news. As for the movie itself, the story holds together better than the first one. It's still stuck strictly in B-TV territories. It's not good enough to be realistic and it's definitively not trying to be stylish. It's Chuck's 80's work over and over again.