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      Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

      R Released Mar 1, 1985 1h 36m War List
      Reviews 47% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score Ten years after being captured by sadistic Vietnamese Col. Yin (Oh Soon-tek) in 1972, Col. James Braddock (Chuck Norris) and his men are still prisoners deep in the jungle. Resigned to being abandoned by his government, Capt. David Nester (Steven Williams) has become Yin's henchman, while the rest of the soldiers remain strong. Despite constant torture, Braddock refuses to sign a confession of cowardice, biding his time until he can escape and take revenge. Read More Read Less

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      Paul Attanasio Washington Post If this is what the Republicans mean when they say it's morning in America again, well, don't set your alarm. Jan 3, 2018 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy The year 1985 found Norris headlining one of his better pictures -- unfortunately for Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, that would be Code of Silence. Rated: 2/4 Jan 14, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Scott M Silly story about a POW camp in Vietnam with Chuck as its hero. It's not terrible, but I wouldn't call it good either. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/08/23 Full Review Elvis D Tras el éxito comercial de la primera película estrenada, tomaron la decisión de lanzar esta entrega, que supuestamente era la primera entrega original de la trilogía. La película anterior era originalmente la secuela de esta película, pero decidieron cambiar el orden de estas 2 películas tras ser terminadas porque los productores vieron más atractiva la secuela y tuvieron que intercambiar los nombres. Está claro que hacer eso fue un error, ya que esta película es mejor que la otra. Tiene un argumento brutal donde vemos a Chuck Norris siendo un prisionero y testigo de la crueldad que sufren sus compañeros. Las actuaciones son muy buenas y las escenas de acción también logran cumplir su objetivo. Tiene un guion muy sólido, escenas brutales y un antagonista malvado hasta la medula que es realmente creíble. Sin duda, esta es la película que se tendría que haber estrenado primero para comenzar la trilogía. Missing In Action 2 es una estupenda película de acción y quizás una de las mejores precuelas que se hayan hecho. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 9/10. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/31/23 Full Review carlos t Minha opinião: Braddock 2 (1985) é um filme que antecede Braddock 1 (1984). Para quem assistir este filme você lembrará do filme #Rambo2 mesmo assistindo hoje ou na década de 80 foi a mesma comparação. Mas na época ele se destacou nas locadoras. E o mais interessante que os 2 filmes foram lançados 1985, Braddock foi lançado alguns meses antes. Mesmo sendo parecidos percebemos um destaque para o Rambo. E quando sonhamos em ver Stalone e Norris juntos isso só ocorrer nos Mercenários 2. Neste filme Norris foi capturado pelos vietnamitas, que por anos escravizam os presos americanos. Mas com tantos mal tratos, e ele se rebelam, para a liberdade e se vingam dos maus feitores. Roteiro: bom Vale apena assistir? Para quem curte filmes da década de 80, de Norris e filmes de guerra é um prato cheio. Nota: 7 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Only with Cannon can you have the sequel be the prequel when it was supposed to be the first movie. The Joseph Zito-made Missing In Action was considered to be the better of the two movies, so this one was turned into the second movie, but everything worked out pretty OK. This was directed by Lance Hool, who sold the script to Chuck Norris, who was looking for a movie to pay tribute to his brother Wieland, who had died in Vietnam. They took the script to Cannon, who had a Vietnam POW movie in development, so that's how we got two movies so quickly. Also, I'm amazed that Vietnam movies were impossible to make in Hollywood before Stallone and Norris changed everything. Years before he freed US POWs in the first film, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris was tortured in a North Vietnamese POW by Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh, who was also in Good Guys Wear Black). He and his fellow soldiers have been forced to grow opium and if they want to be released, Braddock has to confess to war crimes. I mean, it's Chuck Norris. Do you think he's going to do that? Yet that's exactly what Captain David Nester (Steven Williams, X from The X-Files) believes should happen and he's joined the side of the enemy as they subject the Americans to torture like guns being shoved in their faces and fired with no bullets. Then, after a fight that Braddock beats Nestor in, he gets a live rat dropped in a bag covering his face while they tell him that his wife thinks he's dead and has remarried. That's also not a fake rat. Then, to add even more pain, Braddock exchanges an admission of guilt to Yin's charges of war crimes in order to get medicine for Franklin, a soldier with malaria. Yin overdoses the soldier with opium and burns him in front of Braddock, who escapes from the camp and — as you can imagine — murders every single other soldier, which includes pro wrestler Professor Toru Tanaka. This came out three months after the first movie but still made $11 million at the box office. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member A simpler movie than the first one, which it’s better for. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/19/19 Full Review Audience Member Prequel to Chuck Norris' quite successful first film in the "Missing in Action" franchise. The prequel tells the story of how Norris' Colonel Braddock was captured and held prisoner by the NVA during the Vietnam War. The film is a fairly standard POW war film story, complete with an evil camp commandant, cruel torture, and daring escapes. Norris has always been limited in his acting ability, but this film wisely did not ask much of our hero in that department. Unfortunately the film also did not ask Chuck show off his martial arts skills much either, with the exception being a final confrontation with venerable character actor Soon-Tek Oh as the evil Colonel Yin. Chuck takes some beat downs from Professor Toru Tanaka and has some nasty torture scenes, particularly one involving rats, throughout the film as the NVA try to get him to confess to war crimes, but why have a karate champ in your film if you're not going to let him fight? The film's production company realized this was a weak film and had already filmed a sequel back-to-back with this one. Producers made the wise choice to release what was originally filmed as a sequel ("Missing in Action" where Chuck goes back to Vietnam to rescue POWs) as the first of the franchise and then released this weaker film later as a prequel. In the plus column for this film, it does feature music by Max Max composer Brian May. Also, as cliched of a POW story as it is, it's a pretty sturdy one that's hard to resist for fans of this war film sub-genre. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Ten years after being captured by sadistic Vietnamese Col. Yin (Oh Soon-tek) in 1972, Col. James Braddock (Chuck Norris) and his men are still prisoners deep in the jungle. Resigned to being abandoned by his government, Capt. David Nester (Steven Williams) has become Yin's henchman, while the rest of the soldiers remain strong. Despite constant torture, Braddock refuses to sign a confession of cowardice, biding his time until he can escape and take revenge.
      Director
      Lance Hool
      Screenwriter
      Steve Bing, Larry Levinson, Arthur Silver
      Distributor
      Cannon Film Distributors
      Production Co
      Cannon Films
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      War
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Mar 1, 1985, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 1, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 36m
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