Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

This feels like real movie. Not like cheap Rambo rip-off like first one. To be honest this have some First Blood feeling in it but it is not such rip-off as first one. Now we have real characters. Chuck Norris feels like acting and story makes sense. You sense danger unlike first one.

This happens before first movie and things happening in this movie are mentioned in first one. You are not spoiled if you have seen first one. Unless you count spoiling problem all prequels have. If I have understood correctly this was shot before first one or at same time. It makes little sense that this was released later than first one since this happens before and is much better movie.

I prefer prison camp part at beginning over action part at the end. This would have been better with less action but this is action movie and Chuck Norris movie so action has to be there.

Fmovies: Another Chuck Norris classic flick Missing in Action 2: The Beginning one of Chuck Norris's best movies and really good action movies. Missing in Action 1 and 2 are really good movies, this is one of my favorites of Chuck Norris and Vietnam war flicks that come out in the 80's. Yes I am a huge Rambo fan I love First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II to death. This movie is not a copycat of the first two Rambo movies it is different from the Rambo movies. My favorite is still Missing in Action the original film of the MIA trilogy, this is my second favorite of MIA trilogy.

Come out the same year as Rambo: First Blood Part II and Commando were released and it is a good decent brutal death camp action war flick in a Chuck Norris style. This was really my first Chuck Norris movie I saw as a kid and the first one in the MIA trilogy. I rent this movie in a video store and I rent it a VHS tape that time. I saw the cover of the film and I like it. I love this film to death it is still one of my personal favorite Chuck Norris films.

This film was filmed back to back with the original Missing in Action and was originally intended to be the first film of the two but Cannon switched the titles cause they thought the sequel Missing in Action would be more successfully movie, than this movie the prequel they were right. I love Lance Hool he directed great this movie, he is a good director I miss him. He also directed Steel Dawn with Patrick Swayze 2 years later. I love the cast in this movie: Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta, Cosie Costa, Joe Michael Terry, Christopher, Cary, John Wesley, David Chung and Professor Toru Tanaka. This was always my favorite action war film of the Vietnam flicks beside First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II, Missing in Action I and II belongs right there with the Rambo movies.

Chuck Norris returns as Colonel James Braddock in this intense, action packed prequel to the original hit . Captured during a daring mid-air rescue operation, Braddock and his men are imprisoned by the insane Colonel Yin, who stops at nothing to break their spirits. For Braddock, the choice is clear. With fists, high explosives and shear courage, he becomes one man army!

Soon-Tek Oh was a good, fantastic as sadistic psychopath villain Colonel Yin who was leading Death Camp in North Vietnam while he was smuggling opium. He was also in Steel Justice (1987) playing another Vietnamese main villain. Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock is the best hero ever! I love his performance and he was a real hero. Cosie Costa as Mazilli was really good actor and I love his performance in this movie. Joe Michael Terry was great as Opelka one of Braddock's men. Professor Toru Tanaka reunites with Chuck Norris for this sequel I love it, previously he played with Chuck Norris in An Eye for an Eye.

I love the brutality in the film in which Chuck Norris bites the rat. I love the dialogue in the movie "You Lose!" Watch the showdown between Braddock and Yin on the end of the movie, you see a martial art demonstration and excellent fight. In reality Chuck Norris would have killed Soon-Tek Oh the fight was for real and realistic, tough it was only performed. There are real explosions, practical effects you see Chuck Norris using a flamethrower firing flammable fire at the Vietnamese guards, destroying the bridge. Real automatic weapons are used in the movie and that well.

This is my favorite action war prison camp Vietnam flick alongside with First Blood, Rambo Fi

For many years I have enjoyed Chuck Norris. Now I can say that one of his movies made me cry. This movie was an absolute heart-stopper, tear-jerker, and gut-wrencher. This is a total psychological flick, exposing to the viewers the horrors of Asian prison camps. Of course, Norris busts out in the end with his comrades. After watching this movie one feels like a true American. If you can't crack open a Budwieser and wear a t-shirt with an American flag on the front you shouldn't watch this movie. This makes me think of Bruce Springstein's Born in the U.S.A. The only thing missing from this movie was Billy Drago, of course. All in all, a worthwile and moving flick to view. Rent it right now, or better yet, buy it.

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning fmovies. This is one that will probably be torn to shreds critically by snobby europeans, and wannabe intellectual movie-goers who just cant get enough of their bullet time, and 200 million dollar epics.This is actually the prequel to the first Missing In Action movie.It tells the story of a forgotten group of P.O.W.'s who are being brutalised by an overbearing colonel who enjoys watching the vet's suffer.As the prisoners numbers dwindle, one James Braddock decides to take charge of the dire situation before its all too late.From the opening to the fiery, action packed finale this film boasts raw combat and even dares to throw in some emotion.I actually truly cared for the characters as I wanted to see them survive and extract revenge upon their communist enslavers.Truly strange times we live in when one cannot be proud to be an American.I will always be proud and you can go back to your dull German expressionist films.Chuck Norris is the man.I love 80's action!

What makes Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, is not the great supporting cast of Cosie Costa, Professor Toru Tanaka, Steven Williams or Joe Michael Terry: Nor is it the effacious use of props such as "the tree" or Francois' helicopter. Simply put the storyline which was developed by the renowned writer Steven Bing, makes the film a simple test of wills between Colonel Braddock(Chuck Norris) and Colonel Yin(Soon-Teck Oh)! Yin's incessant prodding of Braddock to obtain a confession is very well articulated. Yin's methods of persuasion(including the torturing of Opelka, the kidney punches by Lao, and the overdose of opium given to Franklin) are almost as persistent as Braddock's capability to survive them, and yet not give in to Yin's signed statement of "confession". In the end the realistic action sequencing, and excellent auteur directing by Lance Hool, make Missing in Action 2: The Beginning a film to be seen and enjoyed by all fans of great film.

It's not surprising to learn that Chuck Norris made this series as a tribute to his brother who had been killed in Vietnam. He really gave all that he had to these films. It may be manipulative but damn is it ever satisfying. The villains are the kind of loathsome scum whom you JUST CAN'T WAIT to see messed up in a variety of ways. And the good guys are fleshed out enough as characters that you do feel bad for them, and want to see them get their revenge.

As one can guess, this is a prequel to the original "Missing in Action" film of 1984. It shows how Chucks' colonel character, James Braddock, was shot down and captured during the war, and the tortures that he and his men are obliged to endure for the next several years, even after the war has basically ended. The sadistic colonel in charge of his work camp, Colonel Yin (Soon-Tek Oh) acts like a dictator, and just when you think you can't hate this guy any more, he ups the stakes yet again.

With Lance Hool taking the directors' reins, this proves to be a high old time for the action junkie, underscored by the genuine poignancy to be found in stories about prisoners of war. This is exciting much of the time, with kick ass battle footage, lots of explosions, lots of gunfire, and some breathtaking scenery. Chuck is a formidable hero as always, and Oh is a deliciously evil bad guy. Lending strong support are Cosie Costa, Joe Michael Terry, and especially John Wesley as the ailing Franklin. Steven Williams is good in an initially unlikable part as a captain eager to cooperate with his captors in exchange for better treatment. It's also cool to see hulking screen heavy Professor Toru Tanaka and "Ninja III: The Domination" villain David Chung as two of the guards.

All in all, this is solid entertainment, complete with a high body count and never ever boring.

Eight out of 10.