Blu-ray Review – Hero and the Terror

After blasting through the 1980s with actioners such as "Missing in Action," Invasion USA," and "The Delta Force," star Chuck Norris elected to try a few different career directions while he held B-movie attention. There was comedy in "Firewalker" and domesticity in 1988's "Hero and the Terror," which avoided high kicks and hard fists to give Norris a chance to play a haunted cop faced with an old foe and new challenge even more frightening than facing an unstoppable serial killer: parenthood. "Hero and the Terror" suffers from a lack of excitement, missing Norris's violent punctuation, but for those on a mission to grasp the actor's abilities during an era where he was largely hired to be a stoic killing machine, the picture is actually engaging. With Norris out of his comfort zone, the feature shows more interest in character then aggression, and while it doesn't have enough suspense to put it over the top, the effort finds different ways to hold attention, getting by on a surprising amount of personality. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com