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One of the best Chuck Norris films I 've ever seen. Before My favourite Rambo , Braddock is our hero. Kill count in this movie is immense , if you are an action fan You should have watched this movie series. This movie have some best action scenes during its era. Chuck Norris is a great action hero. Overall a must watch for the action fans and war movie fans.

You had to know that after Norris saved all the hostages from the terrorists, he would be sent back to 'Nam to save the POWs. Here he goes back to battle with an old nemesis. This is mindless, escapist, macho B-action from the 80's featuring Chuck Norris in the same vein as Steven Segall, Charles Bronson, Dolph Lundgren or Jean-Claude Van Damme. Don't think, just enjoy him as he kicks ass and takes names. James Hong makes the perfect Vietnamese bad guy. Lenore Kasdorf and Norris have good chemistry. If you like Rambo, then you will like this one.

CLASSIC.........bad movie. It does all the things that critics would laugh at and more. It has bad acting, and a lame story. However, it's a lot of fun for those of you that enjoy lazy afternoon cheeseball films (such as myself). The best scene has to be the slow motion shot of Chuck Norris emerging from the swamp water with a rifle letting rounds off and keeping a "stone face"...hahahaha. Oh wow, how i love this movie. You really cannot argue a movie's credibility with a powerhouse lead actor such as Chuck Norris. RATING: 8/10 - Because it's an entertaining bad movie...great for those times when you're bored out of your mind on a rainy day.

This was filmed back-to-back with part 2, and was originally intended to be released as the second film in the series, but Cannon executives moved it to be the first entry after realizing it was much better than the other film. It is indeed a better movie, but it still can't be called a good movie. To be sure, the production values are decent, and director Joseph Zito occasionally creates an effective moment. But for the most part, the movie is extremely dull; it takes more than halfway through the movie before Norris starts his primary mission, and the action sequences (the few that there are) are mediocre at best. Zito also shows no sense of pacing; there are a number of scenes that serve no real purpose, or are let to run on for what seems like forever. As for Norris, he is his usual stony near-mute self, though he is to be admired for doing some of the risky stunt sequences himself.

Rugged Vietnam veteran Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris in mighty macho two-fisted form) returns to Vietnam in order to rescue American soldiers who are still being held as prisoners of war by the Vietcong. Director Joseph Zito relates the enjoyable and absorbing story at a constant pace, maintains a tough gritty tone throughout, stages the exciting action sequences with rip-roaring gusto, and tosses in some gratuitous female nudity for sleazy good measure as well as blows up a whole lotta stuff with wild abandon. The solid cast helps a lot: M. Emmet Walsh as Braddock's rowdy buddy Jack Tucker, David Tress as the weaselly Senator Maxwell Porter, Lenore Kasdorf as the feisty Ann Fitzgerald, Jame Hong as the slippery General Tran, and Ernie Ortega as the sadistic Vinh. Jay Chattaway's robust score hits the rousing spot. The slick cinematography by Joao Fernandes provides a pleasing glossy look. A total blast.