The greatest movie ever made..!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

This was, as a whole, a surprisingly good action movie starring one of my favorite martial arts/action stars. The plot was a little... far-fetched; I mean, stealing military supplies, and from convoys, no less, almost makes for a thrilling plot device. For one who happens to be in the military, though, I just had to say "Oh, come on!" Anyway, getting past that, this flick has every single thing a guy needs in an action film, and actually does a pretty fine job of it. Considering that this film has David Carradine as the villain and Chuck driving around in a Dodge Ramcharger with a Supercharger, you can't go wrong. Typical kick butt, shoot 'em up Chuck film with some solid action. This movie's biggest hook, of course, is Chuck Norris vs. David Carradine (Kung Fu), which to me is one of the better straight-up fight scenes in recent movie history. Nothing terribly fancy, but the two sell some wicked-looking kicks and punches.Norris is at his best in this film, but the supporting cast is just as wonderful. L.Q. Jones (Dakota), is priceless as the old Ranger, and the film is at it's best in the scenes that he is in. Barbara Carrera (Lola Richardson), is fantastic as a hot vixen in over her head. David Carradine (Rawley Wilkes), is an argyle sweater wearing crime lord who kicks butt, somehow it works? The music for this picture is perfect, the open piece is so good it sets the mood for the whole movie.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

If Dirty Harry were a Texas Ranger, he'd look a helluva lot like J.J. McQuade. Ranger Chuck is your Dirty Harry of Texas Rangers. And McQuade takes the Dirty part seriously, speaking of which, McQuade isn't very friendly much of the time. His best pals are his fists, feet, his guns, and his trusty pet wolf. LONE WOLF MCQUADE has a nice modern-day Western feel to it. A lot of that is helped by the excellent score by Francesco De Masi. Being from the 1980s, it naturally has everything, including: fists, kicks, guns, Uzis, rocket launchers, a crossbow, grenades, and a contest between a bulldozer and an armored car. Chuck usually hits the bad guys before they even finish swinging their fists. At one point, it takes three bad guys to wrestle him down, and that's AFTER he's been shot! When he gets mad, he kicks a post and brings down an entire porch. When a bad guy's getting away, Chuck just chases him down and jumps on his truck and then hangs on until the driver crashes due to Chuck being on his hood. He also runs across rooftops, Even when beaten and buried in his truck, he finds a beer, drinks half of it, and pours the other half over his face to freshen up...before starting the truck with its supercharger and breaking free. This is great stuff.There's something about Chucks acting that elevates him a above the level of a Seagal or a Van Damme; it's like he doesn't have to try as hard to be cool. David Carradine has a weird, low-key acting style, but it works here for his evil villain role. Barbara Carrera is hot, playing the woman who has to choose between the two.Lone Wolf McQuade is an enjoyable movie with a lot of nice moments. It's competently directed and has a lot of great names in the cast. It's hard to ask for more than that. Excellent movie...overall 9 out of 10.

Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade (Chuck) is notorious around his precinct, and his El Paso stomping grounds, for being a loner, a rebel, and a man with the dignity of a quiet badass. Despite the typical protestations from his Captain, Tyler (Armstrong), McQuade, nicknamed "Lone Wolf" for obvious reasons, always gets the job done. And when there's trouble in Texas, he's the man everyone calls to sort it out. His buddy Dakota (Jones) certainly knows that, as do his ex-wife and daughter. But shortly after he reluctantly accepts a young new partner, Kayo (Beltran), Lone Wolf faces his biggest challenge to date in the form of one Rawley Wilkes (Carradine), a malevolent Martial Arts master who also just happens to be a gun runner. There's also a love triangle kind of thing involving a woman named Lola (Carrera) between the two alpha males. After Wilkes sends his goons after Lone Wolf's people, the stage is set for the ultimate showdown: McQuade vs. Wilkes! Also Leon Isaac Kennedy plays an FBI agent named Jackson and William Sanderson plays a underworld character named Snow. Who will triumph in this big, Texas-sized battle? Find out today! It's easy to see, in retrospect, how the TV show Walker: Texas Ranger got started. The pitch to Chuck was probably "let's turn Lone Wolf McQuade into a weekly show". But the awesome title LONE WOLF MCQUADE (why aren't there cool movie titles like that these days?) should be enough to signal to viewers what they're getting into. Chuck displays his usual deadpan likability, and there's something about the guy you just can't help but love. If previous year's movie Silent Rage (1982) is anything to go by, he was slowly becoming less wooden and was honing his acting skills, as well as his Martial Arts ability. As the laconic ex-Military man who only drinks Pearl brand beer (and has many other uses for it as well, including as balm for his wounds) - when he's not drinking Coke, of course, you truly root for him. It was naive and typical for Lola to think she could change Lone Wolf. Change him? Don't even try! The movie is filled with fun stunts and fights (thanks in part to John Barrett and Kane Hodder who, among others, did stunts) and has a nice modern-day Western feel to it. A lot of that is helped by the excellent score by Francesco De Masi. There's also some pleasant humor at just the right times. David Carradine is suitably evil as the Karate man who smokes, Armstrong is the WYC (White Yelling Chief), William Sanderson almost steals the movie as Snow, and Leon Isaac Kennedy and L.Q. Jones provide quality support. Director Steve Carver is known, at least to us, for later directing the movie that unleashed the word "Butthorn" on the world, Bulletproof (1988), as well as the lackluster Dudikoff vehicle River of Death (1989). H. Kaye Dyal got a writing credit here, and he would later go on to direct the Frank Zagarino opuses Trained to Kill (1989) and the great Project Eliminator (1991). And Aaron Norris plays "Punk". So there's plenty of talent to go around, much of which would continue to infiltrate the DTV and/or action movie world for years to come. Lone Wolf McQuade is an ideal starting point.Lone Wolf McQuade is an enjoyable movie with a lot of nice moments. It's competently directed and has a lot of great names in the cast. It's hard to ask for more than that. We liked it.

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.