Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
| Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | |
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| Directed by | Lance Hool |
| Produced by | Menahem Golan Yoram Globus |
| Written by | Arthur Silver Larry Levinson Steve Bing |
| Starring | Chuck Norris Soon-Tek Oh Steven Williams Bennett Ohta Joe Michael Terry Professor Toru Tanaka |
| Music by | Brian May |
| Editing by | Mark Conte Marcus Manton |
| Distributed by | Cannon Films |
| Release date(s) | March 2, 1985 (US) |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,410,000 (estimate) |
| Box office | $10,755,447 (USA) [1] |
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is a 1985 action/adventure film, and a prequel to Missing in Action, both of which star Chuck Norris. It was directed by Lance Hool and written by Steve Bing, Larry Levinson and Arthur Silver.[2]
Missing in Action 2 was filmed at the same time as the first Missing in Action film, and was actually set to be released first before the producers changed their minds. It was followed by a sequel of its own, Braddock: Missing in Action III.
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[edit] Plot
Ten years before freeing American POWs from a brutal General, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named Francois (Pierre Issot), and tries to get Braddock to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. During his team's time in captivity, they are relentlessly subjected to various forms of humiliating torture, and Braddock being told that his wife has left him and has remarried. One of Braddock's comrades starts to suffer with malaria, and is injected with what they are told to be antibiotics. They later find out that he was in fact injected with a lethal dose of opium instead. Braddock must escape and rescue his fellow prisoners from Yin.
[edit] Cast
- Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock
- Soon-Tek Oh as Colonel Yin
- Steven Williams as Captain David Nester
- Bennett Ohta as Captain Ho
- Cosie Costa as Mazilli
- Joe Michael Terry as Opelka
- John Wesley as Frankie
- David Chung as Dou Chou
[edit] Box office
The movie opened at #3, grossing $3,868,515 in the opening weekend. It was released in 1,336 theaters for a $2,895 average. The opening week grossing accounted for 36% of its total grossing.[1] The total US market revenue is $10,755,447.[1]
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- ^ a b c "Missing in Action II: The Beginning (1985)". Box Office Mojo. 1985-12-14. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=missinginaction2.htm. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (March 2, 1985). "Screen: chuck norris in 'missing in action 2'". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/02/movies/screen-chuck-norris-in-missing-in-action-2.html?scp=9&sq=chuck%20norris&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
