Starring: Gary Daniels, Mike Norris, Bentley Mitchum

Directed and Written by: Joseph Zito

The Story: Recently I saw this movie and Rangers back to back. That was almost more than I could take. I can't make up mind which was worse. Probably Rangers but that's only because of its overuse of  stock footage. This movie is bad in its own unique way. Less than an hour ago I was at the store and I saw another Gary Daniels for rent and I almost grabbed it....but after this movie (and having seen American Streetfighter) I'm firmly convinced that this guy can't be in a decent movie and it would take far too much alcohol to bear seeing two of his flicks in one week.

Daniels stars as Captain Wellford, part of an International Peacekeeping Force on assignment in the middle east. The IPF is trying to avert a war between two fictional countries, one of which has developed nuclear weapons. A patrol has turned up missing and Wellford is basically told to go find them. Actually, we the audience know what happened to them. They were ambushed and killed by some crazy ass middle eastern general and his men. Wellford's commander, an American army officer named Goetz has assembled his team for him in the typical really bad movie fashion. I say that because along with SGT Nichols, Chief Medical Officer (never given an actual rank) Diana Erickson, and local tracker Abu Nimer, the Major gives him SGT Mike Morton. When Wellford hears this he gets upset and the major tells him "I know you've had problems with him in the past. He's an angry man, but he was a good soldier once." I almost kicked my TV right then. why put an "angry man" that USED to be a good soldier into the mix? If he's not a good soldier now what good is he? And we never find out why he's an angry man in the first place!

This stupid flick then proceeds to show us the lamest action scenes EVER. The rescue team drives into a mine field and gets fired upon while doing it and their jeep doesn't even get scratched. They even stop moving while under fire so Abu can get in a cage in front of the bumper presumably to spot mines as they drive through and no one gets hit. God, this whole part was enormously crappy. Even after they escape that threat some  men armed with rocket launchers attack them later on and despite aiming at a stationary target still fail to kill anyone except a few extras. Why are these guys attacking them anyway? Well apparently because an arms dealer is selling nuclear technology to one of the warring countries so that a corrupt general can launch it at his own nation, somehow blaming the enemy for it and starting a war. I know that didn't make much sense, but the movie doesn't either so don't bother to try and figure it out. There's no real resolution to this movie either. It just stops more than ends and then they have the f***ing nerve to show little vignettes of the characters telling us what happened to them afterward. I can guarantee that you will not care one teensy weensy bit when that part comes my friends.

What really makes this pitiful excuse for cinema extra stinky is that it could have been a decent, if not good no brainer action flick. But as an action flick it just fails in every way possible. No tension whatsoever....remember that Wellford and Morton don't like each other? Well, all that gives us is lots of bits where Wellford will say some smarmy-ass remark to Morton like "You're here because your own army couldn't control you...learn from it." Oooh, burn! Action? Well, I told you how lame that is. Suspense? You will be unthrilled as SGT Nichols easily disarms the nuke. You will be bored to tears at the ridiculous gunplay when people fire at each other from ten or so feet and still miss. Drama? Make me laugh. At one point Morton shoots an unarmed civilian and feels bad later. Wow. It had the impact of a piece of toilet paper hitting me. Soiled toilet paper at that.

I'd have check with the minions of Jabootu about the Embarrassed Actor thing, but John Rhys-Davies certainly should be embarrassed by his appearance in this thing as the arms dealer. What happened to that guy? He turns up in some of the most wretched flicks as a bad guy way too much. This must be an all time low for him, playing in a Gary Daniels movie. After seeing this flick I'm frankly amazed that he's been allowed to be in other movies.

By the way, why is this called Delta Force One? The only thing that references the actual Delta Force is when its mentioned that Nichols and Morton used to be in Delta Force. What a crappy movie.

Best Lines: "An old desert trick.....face away from hot wind."- Wellford ignores Morton. I wish I ignored the whole movie.

Are you kidding me?

1.) No one except for Wellford has any rank on. Well, the Major does, but that doesn't matter. He has his rank on wrong. Army officers have their rank and branch insignia on their collars, not two rank insignias. And they don't wear green t-shirts under their DBU's. (Desert Battle Uniform). I can't comment on Wellford, since he's either a British officer or an Australian one. Maybe someone else out there can clear that up for me. Also Nichols wears no rank on his uniform whatsoever. (Morton and Erickson are out of uniform the whole time.)

2.) The whole female medic knows Wellford from the past thing goes nowhere, so why'd they even bring it up?

3.) How the heck can these bad guys miss two vehicles from a distance of maybe thirty feet? How? Its so lame its not even funny to watch its just damned annoying. Where'd this guys train? Stevie Wonder's Academy of Firearms?

4.) Speaking of firearms, the first patrol is ambushed by one guy with a freaking M60 mounted on a CAMEL! That would get a few chuckles if not for this...he hits one guy who just goes "AARGH!" and then fires back. Now this is at a distance of maybe twenty five feet. With an M60. Get the flying F*** outta here! that round would have ripped the dude's shoulder off! An M60 is a bigass crew served Machine Gun!

Nudity and Sex: none

Huh?:

If Morton is such a hothead why is he even here? The explanation of "your own army couldn't control you" is stupid. They would have just kicked him out if that was the case. You don't send a loose cannon on a peacekeeping mission with international forces if solely for the reason that its an embarrassment.

Speaking of Morton and Wellford not liking each other, its not explained why or what's happened between them in the past. Which really sucks....I wanna know how Wellford, who is not a US military member knows Morton so well. I thought that International Peacekeeping forces generally kept autonomous of each other. Not in this movie. They just mix and match 'em.

Wellford doesn't want to give weapons to his people at first. He only does give out the weapons after they've been attacked TWICE! Right. In hostile territory, looking for a patrol that has most likely been killed by hostile forces and he doesn't want his men armed.

Its said that they can't use aircraft to find to locate the lost patrol because its a no-fly zone. Uh, I thought a no-fly zone meant the hostile nations couldn't fly there, not the peacekeeping forces. Think about how stupid that is....really. Just think about it.

Major Goetz is named in the credits as a Lt. Colonel. Once again the filmmakers didn't do their homework.

The Final Judgment: This movie really sucks Gorilla Nuts. I sincerely hope that all involved just stop and go into another line of work. Because making action movies isn't their bag.

For the Crime of being a complete waste of a DVD this movie is now condemned to the Devil's Stockade where it will forever peel potatoes to feed the infernal hordes. Its evil shall never torment mankind again!