7.22.2013

Movie Review: Lone Wold* Wolf McQuade




One thing I waste my money on is subscribing to every channel in the history of ever. This causes me to constantly channel surf and gripe about how there's nothing on. It's kind of depressing.

But once in awhile I'll stumble upon a movie I've always heard about but never watched. That happened yesterday when I looked up and saw Chuck Norris' Lone Wolf McQuade. It ain't Roadhouse, but it's close to the worst movie in the world and I absolutely loved it. (I tried to get Mrs. LL to watch it with me as she sat two feet away but she's momentarily obsessed with online poker.)

This movie is horrible. Norris is a Texas Ranger who acts exactly like a Texas Ranger would (even in 2013) if those guys didn't have to wear shirts and report to a supervisor. He'll point his gun at a trooper just to teach him a lesson, drive his  SUV - equipped with a "super-charger" button -- through a private gate without a warrant, and single handedly Kung Fu the master of Kung Fu, David Carradine, even though he doesn't come come close to landing a blow. And this thing was definitely made thirty years ago in that when Norris is introduced to his new Hispanic partner he says, "You gotta be kidding me!"

(Side note: I looked the movie up on Wikipedia while it was on and saw "Gary Oldman" listed as playing "Tyrone Jackson". I kept waiting and waiting for him to appear, but once I figured out that Tyrone Jackson was a black guy, I knew someone was pulling my Internet chain.)
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* Man, you guys will dog pile a typo like nobody's business

Edit: Opening scene. Mexicans kidnap bunch of Troopers. Chuck Norris kills bunch of Mexicans.