Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Shawn Watson Back in the 1980s Chuck Norris made a career out of starring in approximately 40 million low-budget action movies. Most of these were produced by the notorious Cannon Group, but thankfully Lone Wolf McQuade was exempt from that rule. With a price tag that wouldn't even cover the catering budget of the typical Hollywood film, and a PG rating, Lone Wolf McQuade actually manages to be very good for what it is.Chuck is the titular McQuade, a grubby, rugged (grubbed?) Texas Ranger with hair covering 90% of his body who lives in a dirty shack out in the desert and spends what little free time he has blasting at target dummies. His wife and daughter have moved on, tired of his dedication to the job. Make no mistake, McQuade is one honest-to-God, genuine, straight-up tough guy. He's too good for the job, angering his long-suffering Captain who teams him with a cheeky, young upstart Highway Patrolman. McQuade doesn't take to kindly to this and just as he chases his new partner out of his dirty shack his daughter (Dana Kimmel, the cutie-pie lead from Friday the 13th Part 3) is caught-up in a gun-running plot operated by the evil Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine, who looks so much like Chuck they could be brothers, minus the body hair).It's basically an A-Team plot (the clip credits don't help distract from this) but everything is overblown so much it truly would have been an awesome film to watch in a crowded cinema back in 1983. Even the score, by some guy I had never heard of, was brilliant, echoing Spaghetti westerns of the 60 and 70s. Everything that can be exaggerated gets the treatment. But it's important to note that this is not a ridiculous film in the vein of Commando. Lone Wolf McQuade takes itself seriously as a western and somehow, through sheer masculinity and a devil-may-care attitude it works.Apparently Chuck liked the character so much he wanted to make a TV show out of it but MGM wouldn't budge so Walker, Texas Ranger was created instead. It's a shame that it had to turn out that way as a TV show would have been a nice legacy for the movie. As it is, it's one of Chuck's best. I went in with expectations so low they could ooze underneath the bathroom door. McQuade may be a lone wolf, but he's also a dark horse.

Dan Ashley (DanLives1980) They sure don't make 'em like this anymore and you can be pretty sure you'll never see a Chuck Norris film rebooted in the future. But you should see why because it's not for all the jokes Norris has been subjected to his whole life because of his film career.Lone Wolf McQuade is a one of a kind film that takes the best elements of all kinds of classics but that's not to say it's unoriginal or derivative. When else have you seen a futuristic western with kung-fu fights, micro-machine-gun battles and a duel between an armoured personnel carrier and a bulldozer? With Chuck Norris ACTING!!! That's the misconception spread by those who have seen every single Walker Texas Ranger and then one of Norris' tackier film appearances. His best are in the 80's and I dare say that compared to many so-called talents that don't even know how to choreograph a fight scene or have never been in an action film, he can act the pants off a lot of people given the right opportunity.Norris plays the titular character McQuade, a renegade Texas Ranger who's out on the front line fighting dangerous crime while his fat old boss hates his guts from behind a desk. He lives alone, separated from his ex-wife and daughter and devotes his life to putting away the bad guys when he's not drinking beer or participating in backyard target practice. He has a wolf for company and drives a ranger with a nitrous system.McQuade picks up the scent of a major drugs operation after gaining the attention of powerful businessman Rawley Wilkes - played by David Carradine in one of his greater roles that wasn't from Kill Bill - also one of the best martial artists in and out of town. Immediately Wilkes' business and pleasure partner Lola Richardson begins to fall for McQuade and it isn't long before the lone wolf doesn't have to prove Wilkes guilty, as the secret head of the drug cartel falls foul of his own insecurities and takes the war to the Texas Ranger himself.The story is pretty tight, considering it reeks of 80's, and that's thanks to it's roots held firmly in the western genre and also a sensible script. But then there are some very colourful characters. One of which is right out of a 007 film, others right out of Dodge City. What could have been an absurd story is performed very well by Norris and Carradine and with a more than competent cast of actors.L.Q. Jones (The Wild Bunch, Mask of Zorro, Casino) plays Dakota, McQuade's mentor and long time partner, a retired Ranger with a love of beer, poker, wise cracking and reminding us what Trip Taylor would have looked like had he been thin. The man oozes pure character and you can't put him wrong for anything in this movie.A young Robert Beltran (Star Trek Voyager's own Commander Chakotay) also stars as McQuade's new and very green partner Kayo, looking like he came straight from the set of C.H.I.P.S! Lone Wolf is not just an action film. It's got drama and love too, the kind of stuff that makes Chuck look like not just the god of kickass but just the ultimate man in every sense. You can laugh at it and you're welcome too. This is old-school hero making masculinity (beards, chauvinism and anger issues) something to be proud of.It carries it's weight in plot and story development very well and there's enough action and circumstance to get you from the opening battle to the climax but this film doesn't want to be a cheap gung-ho western. It wants to create a memorable main event and does it the hard way, and it pays off. And with sco Di Mesi's blistering legend theme tune, you might find it hard to turn off the end credits, let alone get the film out of your mind for the next day or two. When's the last time a film did that for you? Also try to the last time you saw Chuck Norris take damage from an opposition better experienced in martial arts than he was? Besides Bruce Lee? I'll say no more, treat this film like a Sunday afternoon post-roast event while you're digesting and can't move!

Enoch Sneed This was my first Chuck Norris film so I came to it with an open mind, although I knew pretty well what to expect: lots of macho action and don't worry about credibility (why don't the horse thieves just blow McQuade away five minutes in, instead of messing around spraying a cliff with a machine gun?).So how did it measure up? Well, the action is there with plenty of gun-play and some martial arts thrown in (which look far more realistic than Jackie Chan's gravity defying gymnastics - these guys really hurt each other, although they should kill each other in minutes). We have very satisfactory eye-candy from Barbara Carrera (pity she had to get killed but there has to be a way for Chuck to get back with his estranged wife and daughter). There is also the old mentor who gets killed and has to be avenged, the rookie who learns how to get down and dirty and do some *real* crime fighting, the by-the-book guy who finally s McQuade's crusade (and he's black), and the exasperated superior. I could go on but you can fill the blanks in yourself. Just to remind us the film is *really* a Western, we have an Ennio Morricone-type score as well (and very good it is).We also have affirmation that the USA has the right to invade another country and impose its will on the inhabitants - and the Mexicans here really are a dirty, helpless bunch, a nasty bit of stereotyping.I found myself comparing this film, featuring a maverick Texas Ranger on the Mexican border, with Extreme Prejudice, the Walter Hill film from 1987 which is much better directed and acted, has just as good a level of action, and shares some plot elements (old mentor, unofficial invasion of Mexico) - perhaps because John Milius made an uncredited contribution to the McQuade screenplay. Lone Wolf McQuade pales in comparison to the later film It is a good enough time-er but no classic.

kargaan I can't comprehend how underrated LWM is. First I have to say that the opening seen is a heck of a way to open an action movie. At the opening scene J.J. McQuade seems invincible. He just stands there as bullets whiz past him not looking worried at all. This scene has to go down in the action books for one of the best openings to an action movie. The next part of the movie shows J.J. McQuade as a tough but fragile Ranger because he has his family and friends, whom he deeply cares about, to look out for. There's nothing much to the villain in LWM. He's played by David Carradine and only there when necessary but it doesn't take anything away from the experience. It focuses more on McQuade than the villain. McQuade is a slob and a beer guzzler but extremely good at what he does. A crack shot and an expert at martial arts despite his unhealthy lifestyle. The villain eventually pushes McQuade to his limit and McQuade must hunt down Carradine to save his daughter with the help of a few friends. The music in LWM sounds like something you would hear out of a spaghetti western which really sets the western mood for the movie. The Final fight scene is an epic mono e mono showdown between Chuck Norris and David Carradine. What an awesome way to end a movie! A great great edition to the Norris collection and I would recommend it to any fan of action movies period.