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Forced Vengeance | 
| Director: James Fargo
Actors: Chuck Norris, Mary Louise Weller, Bob Minor, Ken Argent, Roger Behrstock
Studio: Warner Bros.
Buy New: $2.99
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 26429
Genre: Action
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 91 Minutes
ASIN: B000LJCUOY
Theatrical Release Date: July 29, 1982
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Lady Luck has fled Hong Kong's Lucky Dragon Casino. Its manager has squandered the profits. Its owner has been snuffed by the mob. And the heir to the casino is in hiding. But Lucky Dragon still holds one last ace: security expert Josh Randall. Local mobsters should cash in their chips when Chuck Norris plays Randall in Forced Vengeance, an alive-and-kicking actionfest directed by James Fargo (who directed Clint Eastwood in The Enforcer and Every Which Way but Loose). Determined to find the syndicate big shot behind the proprietor's death, Randall goes on the hunt. Trouble follows. And so does the lightning strike of screen excitement - the kind of martial-arts excitement that only Norris can chop, punch, shoot, leap, slam and deliver! |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Short, hard hits December 9, 2001
Simon Koo (FRG)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As like Star Wars, "older" movies don't have to be poor. Forced Vengeance is about much raw strength and nice evil characters. Real characters, not the usual martial arts actors of the nineties. It's great. For the story read one of the other reviews.
I want to comment the "style". The opening scene, where only Norris Silhouette fights a thug, plus the music, make up a kind of message, like "The weapon is brutal and hits hard". Later, the same scene is shown in original speed, while the opening shows it very slow. I prefer the slow, because to see what damage the opponent takes when hit. The first mid of the eighties had this cool hard style, like Asia mission and this one, while the later half came up with kid-amazing stuff like Karate Kid and Karate Warrior, where a teenie or a van-damme-lookalike learns how to fight. But the other style, like Forced Vengeance, shows no one learning and becoming a super hero. It shows a dude with an iron fist, nothing more or less. So, the fights here are not dozens of minutes but a few hard hits. And to see, how these hits work, give it a brutal flavor. The colors in the movie are sometimes neon lights, sometimes a very hard contrast to blood (like on the boat where Norris fights Raymondy. Some people say, fighting movies are lacking of story, then again, other ones say, it needs more fights, when there's too much dialogue. Forced Vengeance is about 60% dialogue and 40% fights / violence. I would say it is pretty good. Plus Joy is a cutie. Plus it has good music. Plus the letter characters for the cast are really stylish (note that in the making of a film even the fonts have to be chosen). Chuck Norris is not there to make a good movie actor but to hit damn hard, and he does HEHE. If you expect this movie to be filled with nothing than fighting scenes, you will be disappointed. It includes stunt-alike short-fights which are damn great, and the places and characters as well as the storyline would make a made a cool 80'ies film, and today, they would make a perfect action videogame. I pray it will come out on DVD. Including the german dub :-) The last scenes show some fight scene punches and kicks, and again, if you see it, the only thing in your mind will be: "Woah, ouch! That was a damn hard hit..."
 High Kicks in Hong-Kong March 3, 2005
Obi-Wan
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie is about A Mob War in Hong-Kong,Chuck Norris helps
his Boss who is not a Mobster and avenges their Death!
No,not your classical Chop Socky stuff,in this pre-1997 retrocession Hong-Kong, the Magic of Chuck Norris' Karate operates on us!
The Fight scene on a Neon-Lit staircase is the climax of this great Movie!
It most definitely did not get the attention it deserved when it was released!!
 Only for Norris fans. August 10, 2000
Lunar Strain (United States)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoy Chuck Norris movies, and Forced Vengeance was very enjoyable, but I would not recommend it for none Norris fans. The fights are good and exciting, but the whole film itself is forgettable. Highly recommended for fans of the Norris films The Octogon, Force Of One, and An Eye For An Eye.
forcred vengeance October 11, 2001
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
good acting and fight scenes make this one movies best in the actors long career. Chuck Norris is the all around supreme fighter even when he is out of the tournament scene. This film has not been rivaled since then.
 A routine revenge thriller. December 4, 2001
Chadwick H. Saxelid (Concord, CA United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Chuck Norris is a debt collector for a small, yet profitable Hong Kong gambling house. When his employer (and good friend) is assasinated by gang muscle, he goes on the war path, kicking in the teeth of all who get in his way as he hunts down those responsible.Forced Vengeance is a standard issue action/revenge thriller. Director James Fargo (The Enforcer, 1976) shows very little growth as a director, although I'll grant that the neon backlit fight scene is an attempt at style that almost works. Action star Norris was a film or two away from becoming truly comfortable in front of the camera, so his performance is pretty stiff, but he remains a likable presence. The movie appears to be shot in the widescreen (2:35:1 ratio), so a letterboxed DVD edition would be a nice gift for Norris buffs such as myself. Anyone at MGM/UA listening?
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