McCord - The President's Man II

Not as jingoistic as expected, for one thing. "The radical fundamentalist element makes up only about 0.01% of the billion Muslims spread around the world. We can't condemn them all for the actions of a few", says Chuck Norris (top government agent, college professor at his spare time!) at one point, and if it sounds preachy or heavy-handed, considering the fact that some people still haven't gotten that point in the year 2008, it's quite commendable of Norris to make it in 2001. As an action film, "The President's Man 2" is above-average by TV standards. Some of the stunts are blatantly unbelievable (catching a knife thrown at you in mid-air!), but what the hell, it's an action film after all. Chuck mostly sits this one out, giving the spotlight to the young Judson Mills, who is admittedly very impressive in his fight scenes. The best scene of the movie is a friendly training "match" between Mills and Chuck's on-screen daughter, Jennifer Tung (who is either trained in the martial arts or can fake it very well). Actually, that's the second best scene. The best is Chuck kicking a terrorist onto a tree like a ball! (**1/2)

(By the way, contrary to what another comment says, Mills isn't Norris' son, Tung never goes into the field, and there is no bad girl either; seeing a movie before commenting on it is strongly recommended).

You know, as much as I like Chuck Norris and the charity and motivational work he does, this made for TV movie really reeked of bad writing, directing and event action...I can tell as most here would agree that this "show" was made as cheaply as it could have been with a lot of high-tech archival footage from NASA, the U.S. military, and a few other sources like CNN and the like, for a current events style appearance to what has happened in this country over the last 6 months since September 11th...This show made no real point, it had unrealistic action, and it wasn't even really funny if they had tried to make it as such??? Who could tell that, unless they were part of the crew...

I have to say that this also looked like they tried to get it "in the can" as soon as they could to release it to the network to "fill-in" some time slot after the playoff games, and even had to get the color announcer on the CBS affiliate to say something to the effect of: "I bet Chuck will kick some serious butt, tonight!" I knew from right there this was going to be really bad...So we went over to a friends house that evening hoping to avoid it after the game, but their kids got hooked into it...sigh...Too bad...But after watching it for a while, it got me to thinking "how bad could this really get...???"

But that is why I had to post this...Anyone who sees this in the up coming years will know this to be true if you got hooked into it...Sorry, we couldn't warn you before hand...

My advice to Chuck...Love your style man, but your programs really stink...If I were you, I'd drop those hack you work with, and get back to what you know about...

Good luck! NT4U

Deke Slater is the new President's Man. He's working with his mentor Josh McCord (Chuck Norris) and Que on missions around the globe. President Adam Mayfield (Robert Urich) has a new mission for the secret group. An Arab terrorist group had smuggled a nuclear bomb into the U. S.

This was filmed before 9/11 and was aired months after the event. The recounting of the terrorist attacks is both powerful and out-of-date. It's not that they could do anything about it. In a way, it's too on-the-nose and also wrong-headed. I don't think anybody wants a fictional fight against Islamic terrorists when there is a real one on the nightly news. As for the movie itself, the story holds together better than the first one. It's still stuck strictly in B-TV territories. It's not good enough to be realistic and it's definitively not trying to be stylish. It's Chuck's 80's work over and over again.

Too bad Chuck Norris has gone to TV. He made some good movies before he hit TV. This is a typical TV movie intended to pass the time. Unfortunately it wastes Chuck's talent as an actor. I hope he returns to the big screen some day.

Oh dear, Oh dear. I started watching this not knowing what to expect. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There were times when I thought it was a comedy. I loved how the government's plan to capture the terrorist leader is to air drop in one man, who is unarmed, and expect him to capture him and escape with a rocket pack. If only it were really that easy. I've finally found a movie worse than "Plan 9 From Outer Space".