A U. S. president's highly classified secret agent who thinks it's time for him to retire must find a fearless replacement to take over his extremely dangerous military missions . He's Joshua McCord (Chuck Norris) who is both a teacher and a government operative who answers to the President (Ralph Waite) . McCord has a daughter who is liaison with the President. When the first lady (Marla Adams) is kidnapped by a mysterious band of terrorists, he goes into action and subsequently finds himself thrust head to the most dangerous assignments . Joshua chooses as his stand-in to Deke Slater (Dylan Neal) , a soldier who was wrongfully convicted of insubordination and assaulting his commanding officer. Joshua and Que (Jennifer Tung) proceed to see if he has what it takes . But then they get a mission which has personal implications for Joshua. So they go. No mission is impossible.
This is a Chuck Norris recital , containing action-packed , thrills , chases , fights , pursuits and lots violence . Chuck Norris demonstrates still his qualities as an action hero on the fights against the largest-than-life murderous by means of punches , slaps , kicks , bounds and more leaps . Here Norris needs to find a replacement , and finally finds him , Dylan Neal, subsequently training him in all kinds of risked tests ; the problem is that the chosen one is a rebel, a troublesome soldier and then Chuck considers that he couldn't be the best option to succeed him. Chuck Norris ordinary acting as Joshua McCord , an aging secret service operative who needs to train a younger man in his field and becomes involved into a no-holds-barred, kick-butt action mission. This action-thriller is an inferior Norris film , in fact Norris was far from his best period with hits , such as : ¨The Octagon¨ , ¨An eye for an eye¨ , ¨Forced vengeance¨ , ¨Lone Wolf MacQuade¨, ¨US Invasion¨, among others . Chuck Norris is familiar to fans worldwide as the star of action films such as Hitman (1991), Delta Force (1986) and Delta Force 2 (1990) , Missing in Action (1984) and its sequels, Firewalker (1986) and Sidekicks ( (1992). And he eventually working in television where has played the same character , Cordell Walker, in three different television series: Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), Martial Law (1998) and Sons of Thunder (1999). Being compellingly accompanied by Dylan Neal as the choosen soldier who results to be convicted of murder and unwilling to follow Joshua's instructions, which makes think he might not be the one and the beautiful Chinese/American Jennifer Tung as Joshua's daughter and main liaison with the President of the United States . Adding other familiar secondaries , such as Ralph Waite , Jonathan Nichols , Stuart Whitman and Soon-Tek Oh who also appeared in ¨Missing in action II¨as an evil torturer . In fact, this The President's Man is a kind of sequel to ¨Missing in action 3¨ in which Braddock returned looking for his disappeared Vietnam wife and kid after downfall Saigon and has even somewhat echoes bare-chested electro-shock torture scene in 1988's "Missing in Action III".
The motion picture was ordinarily but professionally directed by Eric Norris and Michael Preece . Eric Norris is Chuck'son and usual stunt , while Michael Preece is a craftsman who usually works in television making episodes of famous series, such as : 7th Heaven, Baywatch , Falcon Crest, Renegade, Dallas , The Young Riders, B. J. and the Bear , Mike Hammer , T. J. Hooker , Flamingo Road, Barnaby Jones , Shirley , The Hulk and Walker Texas Rangers , among others . Rating : 4.5/10 . Average , only for Chuck Norris fans.
