Missing in Action (film)
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21% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Action, Adventure, Drama Running time 1h 41m Country United States | 5.3/10 IMDb Duration Initial DVD release June 13, 2000 Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 16, 1984 (1984-11-16) Writer Arthur Silver (characters), Larry Levinson (characters), Steve Bing (characters), James Bruner (screenplay), John Crowther (story), Lance Hool (story) Cast (Col. James Braddock), M. Emmet Walsh (Tuck), David Tress (Sen. Porter), (Ann), (Gen. Trau), Ernie Ortega (Vinh)Similar movies , Forrest Gump , First Blood , Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs , Seven Years in Tibet , Full Metal Jacket Tagline The war's not over until the last man comes home. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Missing in Action is a 1984 American action film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The film was followed by a prequel, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985), and a sequel, Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).
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- Plot
- Cast
- Critical
- Box office
- References
The concept for the film originated from a story treatment, written by James Cameron in 1983, for the film Rambo: First Blood Part II that was floating around Hollywood at the time. This explains the similar plotlines between Rambo and MIA. Representatives from Cannon Group claimed to have been "inspired" by Cameron's script and subsequently produced and released the first two Missing in Action films two months before the release of Rambo, in order to avoid copyright violation lawsuits.
Missing in Action 2 was filmed back to back with Missing in Action, and was actually set to be released first before the producers changed their minds.
Despite the overwhelmingly negative reception from critics, the film was a commercial success and has become one of Chuck Norris's most popular films. It was also Chuck Norris's first film with The Cannon Group.
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Plot
Colonel James Braddock is a US military officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, which he escaped 10 years ago. After the war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that travels to Ho Chi Minh City to investigate reports of US soldiers still held prisoner. Braddock obtains the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army friend turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the US POW's from General Trau.
Cast
Critical
Missing in Action received overwhelmingly negative reviews. The film has been widely described as a rip-off of the Rambo film series by critics and viewers alike, particularly the film Rambo: First Blood Part II. Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com gave the film 2 stars out of 5, writing that "Norris does Stallone... badly" in his review. In a 2003 BBC article entitled "Rambo: Pretenders to the Throne", Almar Haflidason wrote "the runaway success of the Rambo trilogy inspired dozens of rip-offs", citing that the Missing in Action series was the most famous of the Rambo clones.
Derek Adams of Time Out wrote that the film was "so bad that it defies belief. It's xenophobic, amateurish and extraordinarily dull". He also labeled it as "all-gooks-are-baddies propaganda". On AMC's movie guide, Jeremy Beday of Rovi described the film as a "crass, dopey Rambo-esque film that ultimately fails to connect with anything interesting in the realm of fact or fiction" and that its "chop-socky, shoot-em-up, explosion-a-minute action quickly wears thin". Steve Crum of Video-Reviewmaster.com wrote that MIA was "Chuck Norris' best film, and that isn't saying much". The film currently holds a 21% "Rotten" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.
Box office
The film was popular at the box office, one of the most successful ever made by Cannon. It earned over $10 million in rentals in the US and resulted in a profit to Cannon of $6.5 million on the basis of its US release alone.
References
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