Gene Hackman plays Colonel Jason Rhodes, a Korean War veteran whose son was captured and is still MIA in Laos. Rhodes organises an off-the-books mission to liberate the POW camp where his son is being held.
This reminded me of Rambo II and the Missing in Action trilogy, but a much more considered and realistic - as far as these sorts of Vietnam War POW rescue movies go, anyway - with Hackman a more convincing military man than either Stallone or Norris, wanting to bring his son back home.
Patrick Swayze, a relative newcomer in 1983, has a role as part of the force that Hackman's Rhodes puts together.
A decent movie, the vanguard of so many "Rescue American POWs from Vietnam" movies to come.
This reminded me of Rambo II and the Missing in Action trilogy, but a much more considered and realistic - as far as these sorts of Vietnam War POW rescue movies go, anyway - with Hackman a more convincing military man than either Stallone or Norris, wanting to bring his son back home.
Patrick Swayze, a relative newcomer in 1983, has a role as part of the force that Hackman's Rhodes puts together.
A decent movie, the vanguard of so many "Rescue American POWs from Vietnam" movies to come.