In Hero and the Terror, Norris oddly seems to have wimped out altogether on the macho tough guy image that he maintained throughout his other Cannon films. In fact on both accounts the film’s title is a misnomer – it is certainly lacking in any terror, and in the hero regard Norris only gets to “Hiiii-ya” and throw himself and others about the screen upon a couple of occasions. In fact Norris seems more concerned with making a tribute to the glories of fatherhood in the film than anything else. The film’s only real enlivening humour derives from such, although this does tend to fall badly flat with lines like “Darling, could you go and get something for me? Your sense of humour – you left it in the car.” On the plus side, Norris’s nausea-inducing screen presence and non-acting mode seems to have been left in neutral and he appears relatively pleasant and amiable on screen. The serial killer plot is extremely routine, with the film sort of becoming a Psycho of the Opera or -Cinema, as the case may be.