Missing in Action [Blu-ray]

Overview

Being a former Vietnam POW himself, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) was the natural choice to accompany an MIA investigation to Ho Chi Minh City. After turning up some questionable information, Braddock travels to Thailand to meet an old buddy (M. Emmet Walsh) who could help him launch a rescue mission. Just four months after the film's successful release, the prequel Missing in Action 2 - The Beginning followed and performed equally well at the box office. The third installment, Braddock: Missing in Action 3 was released four years later.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/17/2023
UPC:	0738329261436
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	R
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	29,178

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Chuck Norris	Col. James Braddock
M. Emmet Walsh	Jack Tucker,Actor,Actor
Leonore Kasdorf	Ann Fitzgerald,Ann
David Tress	Sen. Maxwell Porter
James Hong	Gen. Tran
Ernie Ortega	Vinh
Pierrino Mascarino	Jacques
Joseph Carberry	Carter
Avi Kleinberger	Dalton
Willy Williams	Randall,Randall
Ric Segreto	GI
Bella Flores	Mme. Pearl
Gil Arceo	Vietnamese Businessman
Roger Dantes	Vietnamese Businessman
Sabatini Fernandez	Dinh
Renato Morado	Mike
James Crumrine	Gibson
Jeff Mason	Barnes
Stephen Barbers	Moore
Nam Moore	Translator
Kim Marriner	Newscaster
Deanna Crowe	Newscaster
Jesse Cuneta	Street Hawker,Street Hawker
Juliet Lee	Bar Girl
Joonee Gamboa	Bartender
Augusto Victa	Tran's Aide
Protacio Dee	Yang
Jack Perez	Bouncer
Erich Anderson	Masucci
Juliet Lei	Bar Girl
Vejouhn Mariette	Mia
Omar Camar	Bouncer
Protacio "Tony" Dee	Yang
Jay Chattaway	Composer

Technical Credits

Lance Hool

James Bruner

John Crowther

Arthur Silver

Larry Levinson

Steve Bing

Alan Sharp

Joseph Zito	Director
Yoram Globus	Producer
Menahem Golan	Producer
Lance Hool	Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer
James Bruner	Screenwriter
John Crowther	Screenwriter
Arthur Silver	Screenwriter
Larry Levinson	Screenwriter
Ed Callahan	Sound Effects
Richard Candib	Sound Effects
Dan Engstrom	Sound Effects
Ken Dufva	Sound Effects
Marva Fucci	Sound Effects
Avi Kleinberger	Producer
Ken Metcalfe	Producer
Danilo Domínguez	Special Effects
Gil Arceo	Stunts
Steve Bing	Screenwriter
Pamela Basker	Casting
Alan Sharp	Screenwriter
Fern Champion	Casting
Jacob Goldstein	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The critics called it simple-minded and jingoistic, but 1984's slam-bang adventure Missing in Action struck a responsive chord with mayhem-minded moviegoers, who made it the biggest hit to date for action star Chuck Norris. Many years and two sequels later, it still holds up as fast-moving fun. Norris plays the intrepid Army colonel Braddock, an ex-POW who returns to the Far East long after the Vietnam War in search of other long-held American prisoners. The quest takes Braddock into many squalid settings, from which he extricates himself with the aid of an unlikely sidekick, black-marketeer M. Emmet Walsh. Not surprisingly, the script provides Norris several opportunities to display his martial-arts skills, but director Joseph Zito doesn't stint on more explosive confrontations when they're called for. Unabashedly patriotic in the fashion of World War II movies, this Reagan-era classic lets Norris do what he does best: kick plenty of butt.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse

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.

All Movie Guide - Jeremy Beday