Review of Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) by Jason D — 04 May 2009

Lone Wolf McQuade may just be THE best Chuck Norris film I have ever seen, and this is coming from a guy who always thought The Hitman was Norris' best film!! Lone Wolf McQuade is about the aptly named Texas Ranger (gee, I wonder if this role got him started in his pro-Texas Ranger, pro-Bush, pro-Republican ways) who fights the bad guys and seedy Mexicans in the deserts of El Paso.

After Norris dispenses sweet justice to about 30 bad guys, he starts investigating how they came to have such dangerous machine guns, which leads him to super-cool bad guy David Carradine (whose a real badass in this film along with Norris) who excels in dealing heavy firepower and automatic weapons (which he steals from the army.

Though Chuck is doing his part to try and take down these guys, he's only slightly maddened when they hurt his daughter (Dana Kimmell, the lucky survivor of the third Friday the 13th), and then slightly maddened a little more when they kill his best friend (L.

Q. Jones), and then he really gets pissed off when they kill his dog! It all comes down to martial arts battle deep within the heart of Mexico, the epitome of martial arts territory, between two whiter than white men!!!! Yes, some of the material is a bit cheesy, but this plays like a VERY entertaining modern western/action/karate hybrid picture.

The score is pretty darn good too. Overall, very entertaining film. This makes me want to watch more Chuck Norris films now.