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Walker, Texas Ranger: The Avenger (1996)
walker is forced into mortal combat...
This episode had it all, killing, cop drama, mercenaries, and to top it all off a mercenary trainer(whose brother was killed by Walker) has some soldiers of his kidnap Walker and he forces him to kill people for his "trial" in his brother's death. Trivette has to work with the partner of a murdered cop (who died trying to save Walker) and try and save Walker, while Walker kicks ass in a Mortal Kombat-like manner. He has three rounds,errr I mean fights with three different mercenaries (the last fight, he faces 2) There's lots of hilarious banter and lots of amazing kills and the final fight is epic. The fight with the main character Caleb fights Walker in a extremely cliché old abandoned mining town or something and Walker comes to (after every fight he has been tranquilized) with a knife and axe. They then have the most hilariously weird looking knife fight, but you'll have to watch it for yourself, maybe rewind it a few times and really absorb what they are doing to be as amused with it as I am. This makes my top ten list for many reasons.
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)
hilariously amazing mini action movies
I as well shared in the family sit down time with Walker, watching it with my dad as did my roommate. Nothing was better than sitting back and just watching an action movie in an hour.
Now obviously, there is a lack in actual quality in the show as far as the writing goes, but it's always hilarious to see the far-fetched plots that the writers come up with. He somehow manages to get involved with gangsters, drug lords, crooked cops, satanists, kidnappers and all sorts of people despite the fact that he's only a Texas ranger.
Despite this, anyone should be able to sit back, laugh at Chuck Norris' antics, while watching all sorts of things get broken (he always breaks everyone's furniture but no one ever seems to get too mad about it), things blowing up (almost immediately on impact most of the time) and slow motion spin kicks as well as some clever villain banter. The native American episodes are always interesting too with hallucinations and visions...Walker is part native American, so he has supernatural visions.
The theme song always amused me too. The original theme song had a hilarious guitar lead part that reminded em of Top Gun or something and I lost it when I fist heard the song sung by Chuck Norris. Nothing will ever be as good as "the eyes of the ranger."
I don't really know how I felt about the addition of the newer younger characters, but I guess after so many years, you have to do something new. It just didn't seem the same to me anymore after they were added though. Nothing compares to Trivette and Walker's seasons alone for the most part. If you haven't seen this show and you like actions movies, then I highly recommend checking it out, as it airs several times a day.