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Chuck Norris, Soon-Teck Oh, Cosie Costa, Steven Williams, David Chung ... see more see more... , Joe Michael Terry , John Wesley , Bennett Ohta , Prof. Toru Tanaka , Christopher Cary , Pierre Issot , Mischa Hausserman , Joseph Hieu , John Otrin , John Crowther , Dean Raphael Ferrandini , Andrea Lowe , Nancy Martin , Michiyo Tanaka , Soon-Tek Oh

While the first Missing in Action film told of a rescue mission by ex-POW Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris), the second concerns his original stay in a Vietnamese prisoner camp. The camp is govern... read more read more...ed by the crazed Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POW's to grow opium for French drug runners and tries to get them to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. Braddock must escape the camp and liberate his fellow prisoners to have any hope of surviving. The third installment in the series, Braddock: Missing in Action 3, was released three years later. ~ John Bush, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Lance Hool, Thomas Moore (VIII)

Release Date: March 2, 1985

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  • kpn666
    October 9, 2010
    kpn666
    How can you decide whether a sequel is better than the original?? When the character and movie go further... or maybe establish a history or a beginning. Prequels are usually considered the pick of a series... the development, the story, the creation.... in this case, the beginni... read moreng of the legend of Colonel James Braddock as the most infamous Vietnam prisoner of war.

    Braddock and his squad are captured at the height of the Vietnam war. Years after the war had ended, POW's become forgotten ghosts, abandoned to the sadistic and murderous Vietnamese, venting their fury against the Americans, or in some cases, forcing them to confess to war crimes to denounce the US worldwide. Colonel Braddock though refuses, and thus over the years watches his team shrink down to 4 men... and one turn traitor. Enduring taunts, violence, slave labor and torture, including the infamous rat in a bag scene, survival is main focus on his mind... until tricked by Commandant to confessing to war crimes and letting one of his men die of a drug overdose.

    It all comes to a head as Braddock makes his escape in leg chains... only to return and burn down the prison camp and the demons that inhibit it and in his mind and free the other prisoners.

    Dark, tense and a lot of realism thrown in amongst the B-grade set, it definitley is a movie to remember to my standards as far as action films goes, and one of Chuck's best.

    Enjoy!
  • deano
    March 20, 2007
    deano
    Unlike the original, this tale of Chuck Norris and his platoon escaping from a savage Vietnam Cong P.O.W. camp. Most of it is typical war movie stuff: gunplay, explosions, sadistic captors, etc, but when Norris finally take on villainous Soon Tek Oh, it's on of the better fights ... read moreI've seen him in.
  • seanattle74
    May 25, 2008
    seanattle74
    Gone are the days of the bad action movie. Not really, but this one can be an example. I wonder if I'm at an age where I see the faults a lot clearer in movies I once liked, or was made in a time when it was a smarter movie?
  • zappasgal
    May 25, 2008
    zappasgal
    by zappasgal2005
    Colonel James Braddock gave me my Chuck Noris fix today! AMC is having a heroes day for Memorial Day with war movies if you are into them....I am!!!!!!

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