Metacritic reviews

It is almost a prototypical action picture; there is never a moment when something isn't happening or about to happen, and the fact that most of the action makes no sense doesn't matter much when events move this fast. [27 Sep 1985, p.D7]

Invasion USA might actually be fun in a campy way if it weren't so dourly exploitative.

A numbingly stupid actioner, Invasion U.S.A. has one of the most laughable villains ever committed to film.

Invasion U.S.A. is a brain-damaged, idiotic thriller, not even bad enough to be laughable.

Though in his last movie, Code of Silence, Mr. Norris, the karate champion-turned-movie actor, seemed on the verge of becoming a kind of benign Clint Eastwood character, he loses all credibility in this awful film.

A brainless plot would be almost forgivable were it not for the perverse depiction of innocents butchered in Invasion U.S.A.

Has a terrific premise but no script.

Leaden, xenophobic, and utterly stupid, it's far more offensive than Rambo and far less well executed.