Hero and the Terror
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Movie Reviews of Hero and the Terror
Movie Review: Hero and the Terror
Summary: 4 Stars
Chuck Norris has always been a favorite actor of mine and any movie he stars in is good for me...I've seen this movie many years ago and I couldn't wait to buy it on DVD...Movie Review: Essential Chuck Norris Viewing
Summary: 3 Stars
"Hero" Chuck Norris plays a police officer named Danny O'Brian who is haunted by his past run in with serial killer Simon Moon (The Terror). (...). There is a side story involving O'Brian's relationship with his ex-therapist. This tends to slow the movie in spots. As Chuck Norris fans we want to keep the action pace high. Hero and the Terror is one of my favorite Chuck Norris movies though it has less martial arts and more suspense and story than you may expect from one of his movies. The quality of the DVD is very good. It contains both the widescreen and standard screen format with virtually no extras. That's OK considering the budget price of this MGM release. Hero and the Terror is an essential addition to a Chuck Norris movie library. Recommended viewing.Movie Review: A Good Film
Summary: 3 Stars
I remember seeing this on VHS years ago and was really scared , but now it seems rather lame.Still if you are A Chuck fan it is a must have for your collection.Danny O'Brien is a detective who the press call the "Hero" after he captures a serial killer called Simon Moon a.k.a "The Terror".You guessed it "The Terror" escapes from jail , holes up in a movie theatre and starts his murderous ways again.Only Chuck can save the day and take on "The Terror" and win.A easy to watch film and good if you want to kill a hour and a half but I found Silent Rage a better film , still Chuck is Chuck and I have most of his films apart from Top Dog which I found really bad.Movie Review: Fair Norris Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
Hero And The Terror is a decent Chuck Norris movie. Many of his better films involved him being a cop, such as An Eye For An Eye and Code of Silence. This film is not as good as either one of those films, but it is still a fairly entertaining film.
Norris plays an LA cop who must go after a notorious serial killer after the killer ecapes from jail. Norris' life is already complicated because his fiance is pressuring him to marry her.
The climax in a old movie theater is good and entertaining, but the rest of the movie is only so-so. Hero and The Terror is not Norris' best, but it's not his worst, either.
Movie Review: not much heroism, not much terror
Summary: 2 Stars
I normally like action movies, but this one... Danny O'Brien (Chuck Norris) was nicknamed "Hero" when he stopped serial killer Simon Moon, who ended up in a psychiatric facility. Afterwards, he spent some time with a therapist (Brynn Thayer) dealing with the nightmares, and he's now living with her, and they're expecting a child.
Simon Moon escapes the hospital and makes his getaway in an ambulance, which he crashes. Everyone wants to think he's dead, but when a woman disappears from a newly renovated theater, O'Brien knows Moon is back, but nobody takes him seriously.
Thing is, this could have been a decent movie, but instead, it's just dull. We're supposed to feel for Danny and Kay, and the "heartwarming" ending, but we never got to know them beyond Danny's nightmares and discovering that Kay had been his therapist, and that she's reluctant to marry him, but considers the relationship permanent. There's a scene in a restaurant on her birthday that I think was supposed to make us sympathetic, but she ends up looking stupid, and he's so laid-back, he's nearly comatose.
I'm not sure what the point of their relationship was in the film--him trying to have a normal life, maybe, but we never see him not having the normal life, and that normal life is never threatened. If Simon Moon had captured or threatened Kay, there might have been a point.
And what's the point of making her a therapist? She's a pretty bad one--his nightmares come back, and she just says it doesn't matter because she'd already cured him. Huh? And she's seriously out of touch with her own emotions, not even aware that pregnancy heightens them. And the biggie: a romantic relationship with a patient? Not a good thing.
As for the action plot--Simon Moon was a 2-dimensional villain. There's no reason for his actions, beyond "he's evil." O'Brien knows immediately whodunit, so there's no mystery or suspense there. He also decides, without any investigating, that Simon Moon is hiding in the theater. There is a search for him, but it's long and nothing at all happens.
Maybe my biggest problem was that there was very little action to distract me from the dullness of the plot.