“If I want your opinion, I’ll beat it out of you.” Every action movie star has his quiver of quips to fire at the audience after he’s done beating up all the bad guys, but most action actors say them for a laugh; Chuck Norris always made even the funniest lines of dialogue sound like a threat. In this 1985 classic, Norris lays Chicago detective Eddie Cusack, an honest cop trying to survive in a dishonest system. He’s good enough at his job so the corrupt cops keep away from him (that and the fact that he could single handedly kick all their asses at once), but when he refuses to lie to help an old alcoholic cop beat a murder rap, Cusack is cut off from the rest of the force and forced to take on a gang of drug dealers all by himself. So what? He’s Chuck freakin’ Norris, so there is never any doubt who will be the last man standing, The fun is watching the body count rise and waiting for him to mutter another funny threat or two as he kicks them to the curb.
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