Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning: Directed by Lance Hool. With Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta. Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

“When we last left Colonel James Braddock, he was shoving it up Vietnamese butt by barging into their press conference about how they didnu0026#39;t have any POWs in Vietnam with a POW he just rescued. Truly a fairy tale ending, but what about the beginning of the fairy tale? Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is his most personal mission of all! Because itu0026#39;s when he was a POW himself! Which we already saw in sporadic flashbacks in the first movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMissing in Action 2: The Beginning shows the capture of Colonel Braddock (Chuck Norris) during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape. Norris and his crew are holed up in a prison camp for the whole picture, ruled by tyrannical Colonel Yin (Soon-Tek Oh) who resorts to psychological mind games, torture and murder to try to make Braddock sign a statement admitting to war atrocities he never committed.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere seems to be no end to the different scenarios and interesting scenes that play out during the film: escape attempts, arranged fights between prisoners, a guy who stumbles onto the prison camp and gets executed. Things really start to pick up when Braddock gets really mad and you see him sneaking here and there, setting bombs, picking off people one by one, freeing people, blowing up stuff, and staying behind after everyone leaves because he doesnu0026#39;t believe Yin really died when he bombed Yinu0026#39;s hut. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut Chuck really delivers in the end, especially in his final feel good showdown with Yin. In my opinion, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is the best of the Braddock movies, itu0026#39;s part action film and part action drama, which sets it apart from the other movies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe first time i ever watched this film was in the early 80u0026#39;s in the cinema and it was great, and i still think itu0026#39;s great…”