Sunday, November 25, 2012

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

A group of American soldiers are taken prisoners in Vietnam after the end of the war. The camp commandant is a sadist who demands the American leader's confession to war crimes he has not committed.

Quite effective and well made, with competent direction (the one exception, save error of mine, being an apparently unconvincing sequence where Braddock is looking for a buddy and inspects an enclosure which is full of armed enemies who fire at him). The film is almost entirely made of exciting sequences, and the plot has an interesting underlying idea. Nevertheless, the historical references should not be taken seriously, it seems to me.

Rating: 52

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