Code Of Silence [DVD]

I watched Code of Silence on Sky Movies in 1994 and wasn't impressed. I just wanted a mindless action film and what I got was a tough police thriller in the vain of Out For Justice (which, strangely, I also disliked upon my first viewing). Many of Chuck's movies are OTT and stupid, but occasionally he did churn out something hard-boiled and serious and Code of Silence is one of his best.With muscular direction from Andrew Davis, who went on to direct Under Siege, The Fugitive, and the Guardian, all shot in real, earthy Chicago locations, Chuck plays Eddie Cusack, an incorruptible cop in a force who looks the other way to ignore evil within their own ranks (as Chicago really is to this day). When two rival drug gangs clash it's up to Chuck to rescue the innocents caught in the middle and take down the villains with no help from his colleagues.In an age of over-produced action movies something like Code of Silence is a breath of fresh air. It's tough and believable and an insight into a fascinating world. A contemporary movie to compare it to would be Dragged Across Concrete, a similar hard-bitten cop thriller. Numerous character actors pop up here, many of which were often featured in most of Davis' movies. The man loves to shoot Chicago and this movie, along with The Fugitive, Above the Law, and Chain Reaction, captures the city in all of its polarizing environments.The perfect antidote for anyone who is burned out on modern blockbusters. I miss these mid-budget movies and they need to make a comeback.

As a martial artist myself I am a big Chuck Norris Fan and have been a watcher of his films since The Good Guys Wear Black.As I've said before A Force of One will never win any awards for its script but the fight scenes,arranged by Chuck himself,probably with a little help from brother Arron were first class for their time and contain top class martial arts action.By the time Code Of Silence was released in 1985 you could see that the 6 time undefeated World Karate Champion was no longer struggling with his acting,having settled on the strong,silent and thoughtful character method,which carried him right through to the end of WALKER TEXAS RANGER,which still remains CB S's longest and best ever,top selling TV series,repeats of which are still running on SKY TV today.Now established as Golum Globas's biggest star in the Code of Silence he gets a better script and a good supporting cast to add to the action.Chuck plays cop Eddie Cusack,ostracised by his colleagues for not backing up a burnt out drunken cop who shoots a young kid in a dark hallway during a drug bust.The kid is unarmed so the drunken cop plants a gun on him.Cusack doesn't know this,only that the cop is burnt out and shouldn't be on the streets.This great story leaves Chuck/Cusack on his own to take on and stop a gang war.Aided only by the Snooper,a high tech robot vehicle, with more armaments than a dozen Rambo's.Is it enough...?Ha,buy this great DVD and watch the great action sequences to find out cos all I'm gonna say is when the mayhem stops and the smoke clears there's only one man left standing....?I'm just starting to replace all of my CN videos with their DVD equivalents as I find them and as this has always been one of my personal favorites it was the second one I bought from Amazon.More will follow as there's nothing better than a good old Chuck film.Plenty of action without the gratuitous sex and bad language of more modern films.

It's Chuck Norris, it is what it is, as a fellow martial artist (not in his league lol), fight scenes are class and I appreciate it for what it is as a fan of Norris

Hadn't seen this one in a decade or two so I fed it into my DVD player with much anticipation. I was a huge Chuck Norris fan as a kid, saw all of his films. After revisiting a couple of them I was overtly impressed... this one, however did not disappoint. Possibly Chuck's most 'serious' film? As had been said before, it was originally intended as a fourth Dirty Harry film. And the story, not to mention the sub-plots and characterisation, are far better than many of his films.But what annoys me about this film... THAT BLOODY ROBOT! It seems to be brought in from another film entirely! Hey, it's the 80's, robots are the future... so Chuck, despite having nothing it do with it an earlier scene, somehow manages to work it with clinical precision to take down the bad guys... sorry, not having it and it puts a damn big downer in this film for me.So, Chucks best film? Might have been without that damn robot. Invasion USA, Missing In Action, An Eye For An Eye and The Octagon are up for that title IMO. Still, if you're after some 80's action stuff, you could do far worse. It's a recommend from me.

From The director who went on to Under Siege and The Fugitive, this is by far the best film Chuck Norris ever made. I hadn't watched it since I had the vhs back in the 80s and it is still every bit as much fun.

A typical action packed Chuck Norris movie.

Love this film had to buy a new one as the old one wore out beautiful story and the action is great.

Chuck Norris at his best full of gritty no nonsense action not a bad story either