I was laughing at all of the explosions; eventually, though, all of the noise became annoying." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times thought that the film, "like its predecessor, 'Forced Vengeance,' becomes so numbingly violent that it's a turnoff about a third of the way through." Jimmy Summers wrote in BoxOffice magazine, "Chuck Norris still doesn't have the screen presence to achieve his often-repeated wish of becoming the next John Wayne, but as long as he keeps his feet and fists flying and stays relatively quiet he's an effective action hero. In the wildly exaggerated world of this movie, he's almost a super-hero." As of December 2019 the film has a score of 57% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 7 reviews. Legacy Norris later said the film "broke the kung fu mode" for him and helped turn him into a more mainstream action star. Norris credits this film as a leading inspiration for his hit television series, Walker, Texas Ranger, which premiered a decade later. Yet the pilot had to be rewritten, and the characters' names changed, since "all things McQuade" were copyrighted by Orion Pictures. The original co-producer of the series was The Cannon Group, which like Orion is now absorbed into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (though the Cannon films are distributed on television by another company). Steve Carver and his production partner Yoram Ben-Ami sued the producers of Walker, Texas Rangers for 500 million dollars. Carver talked about the lawsuit in an interview in 2020: "MGM and CBS had bigger and better and more lawyers than we did, all the way to the Supreme Court. We failed to convince the Supreme Court that there were similarities. Now, you and I and anybody else knows that there are similarities between Lone Wolf McQuade and Walker Texas Ranger''." He added that the lawsuit was the reason Chuck Norris and he parted ways. See also List of American films of 1983 Chuck Norris filmography References External links 1983 films 1983 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American action films American martial arts films 1980s Spanish-language films Orion Pictures films Films about the Texas Ranger Division Films set in Texas Films shot in El Paso, Texas Films directed by Steve Carver Films scored by Francesco De Masi Fictional characters of the Texas Ranger Division Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in fiction Neo-Western films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films