Main Cast: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Lenore Kasdorf, James Hong, Pierrino Mascarino, David Tress
Release Year: 1984
Country: US
Run Time: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. A former POW himself, Braddock has the saavy and bad temper to kill droves of communists at a time, not to mention the inclination. Together with former war comrade M. Emmet Walsh, he sets off for the POW camp where Americans are supposedly still held. Of course, there are lots of nameless, faceless Asian communists, and of course, every one of them dies in violent fashion. The chop-socky, shoot-em-up, explosion-a-minute action quickly wears thin. Missing in Action is a crass, dopey film that ultimately fails to connect with anything interesting in the realm of fact or fiction. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide
Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) is a U.S. Army officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the war, Braddock, now retired, accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner.
Braddock gets the evidence he needs then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck (M. Emmet Walsh), an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau (James Hong).
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