IF you don't immediately start snoozing during the dull and excessively long opening credits sequence. IF you don't fall asleep because of witnessing another clichéd story about an honorable family business being brutally overtaken by ruthless mobsters. IF you manage to stay awake during the hero's typical search for the highest pion in the criminal hierarchy. IF you do not doze off from seeing Chuck Norris' monotonous acting and overhearing his redundant, yoga/mental coach-like narration. IF all that, and mind you those are a lot of ifs, then a minor reward awaits in the third act, in the shape of a handful of harsh and bloody fight-till-the-death sequences. "Forced Vengeance" is a truly boring and derivative revenge actioner with Norris as a casino security guard single-handedly exterminating the Hong-Kong mafia cartels. It's the weakest of all Norris' films I've seen so far, and the actor himself also has zero charisma. Luckily, after this misfire, production studios must have realized that Norris' image as a clean, nice & genuinely good-hearted man with Kung Fu skills wasn't working well. His status as tough and undefeatable action hero mainly got established via the films that were released after "Forced Vengeance", like "Mission in Action", "Invasion USA", "The Delta Force", etc...
Review of Forced Vengeance
