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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 27420
Released: June 4, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A notorious killer is back to terrorize Los Angeles, and only one man can stop him. Martial arts superstar Chuck Norris packs a powerful punch in this "exciting" (Variety) action-thriller about a tough L.A. cop's pursuit of a savage villain from his past. "Adroitly directed [with] startling images" (The Village Voice) and harrowing action scenes, Hero and the Terror is edge-of-your-seat suspense from beginning to end! Homicide detective Danny O'Brien (Norris) is known simply as "Hero" for having brought down L.A.'s most vicious serial killer: Simon Moon (Jack O'Halloran), a.k.a. "The Terror." But for years, O'Brien has secretly been haunted by the fact that his capture of Moon was a fluke. When The Terror escapes from jail and returns to his old killing ways, O'Brien finally gets the chance to earn his glorified reputation…if his monstrous enemy doesn't destroy him first!
Hero And The Terror Reviews:
One of Chuck's Best 
2009-03-18 - Hero and the Terror stars Chuck Norris as Danny O Bryan ,a cop who puts an end to the menacing terror Simon Moon (played by Jack O Halloran) at least for the time being.Simon escapes prison and sets up shop in an abandoned movie theater thats about to reopen for business -- and killing.Chuck is top notch and this is his Best film in my opinion.It is a Grade A Action thriller that really deserved to be more.Check it out if you like a Good Suspense action film.
not as good as I remembered it 
2008-07-03 - I rented this movie years ago and had some kind of nostalgic memory of how good it was. I finally bought it but was disappointed. There isnt that much action, though I still like the fight scene at the end. Its kind of awwsome how Norris keeps pounding on "the terror" but he keeps coming after him. I guess you could say there is some good character development in the character Norris plays.
not much heroism, not much terror
2008-06-28 - 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.
Fair Norris Movie 
2006-11-19 - 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.
chuck beats the bad guy and even acts in this slick little thriller 
2006-06-23 - as a cop who still has nightmares about a killer he caught 3 years earlier,mr. norris shows he does have some acting talent and makes the most out of this little thriller,and that takes this one a notch or two above most of his movies. the killer has gotten free and while awaiting the birth of his child,chuck must track and catch the terror(the killers nickname)! better than you think!! check it out!
