Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)

People are voting emotionally.

A Disappointing Continuation

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I wonder if the part 2 was successful , that they decided to make part 3 ? It's hard to believe , since it was such bad movie. On the other hand when you look at some of the movies that were successful at box office you may wonder where this world is going."Missing in action 3" is more in the style of the first movie (which was the second actually). This one was actually directed by Chuck's brother Aaron. I have to say that at least the pacing here is decent and the whole movie is so laughable that you won't be bored. So thanks for that Aaron. Remember Norris doesn't step on toes , he steps on necks. Oh , and the torture scene... It's no wonder somebody invented all these Chuck Norris jokes.The quality of acting and writing is still the same , though. Norris has one stony expression through entire movie and there is many moments that don't make sense. The action is unrealistic to say at least .I recommend this movie only for those who like the "so bad , it's good" movies . Personally while it was better than part 2 I still give it 1/10. The first one from 1984 was the best of the series (2/10) , but obviously the whole series was just terrible.Better watch "Rambo" , "Rambo 2" or "Uncommon valor". I give it 1/10.

By combining the topical bent that remained a constant thread throughout the Missing In Action series with increased firepower and nearly unceasing action, this final segment of the trilogy may very well be the strongest of the bunch.The story deviates slightly from the POW focus found in the first two Missing In Action entries, and Braddock's impetus this time is his learning that the wife he thought was dead and the son he didn't know he had are sequestered within hostile territory in Vietnam. After being dismissed by interloping and incompetent CIA brass, Chuck designates himself a one-man infiltration squad and returns to the war-torn land to bring his family home.The nefarious General Quoc proves to be Braddock's most sadistic nemesis yet, and when our oft-abused hero's wife is murdered, his mission turns into a quest for vengeance. Captured by Quoc, Braddock and his son are subjected to a particularly harrowing bit of combined torture before escaping the enemy stockade, soon after which Chuck's son is caught yet again, thus setting the stage for Braddock's return to free his boy and launch the explosive bloodbath implied by the MIA moniker.Though ample time is spent developing the story, this installment of the franchise packs more action into the proceedings than either of the two films before it. The body count is likewise elevated, and Chuck spends a good chunk of the movie mowing down anyone wearing a Vietnamese military uniform with a variety of weapons. By far the coolest of the lot is a tri-barrelled assault rife that houses a machine gun, a revolving grenade launcher, and a nasty-looking bayonet, all used to great effect in a scene which features a would-be rapist being knifed in the chest and having an explosive canister burrowed into his guts. MIA3 is easily the goriest of the series, and the squib-happy special effects team seems to relish the opportunity to make every bullet hit explode toward the camera.As you'd expect, there's also plenty of the requisite silliness that goes hand in hand with the like-minded genre films of the era. My favorite turn of events revolves around a group of orphaned Amer-Asian children Norris "rescues," who, in the brief span of time they're in Braddock's presence, get imprisoned in a military installation, see dozens of their countrymen being violently slaughtered, are repeatedly shot at with machine guns, become involved in a precarious truck chase with missiles from a pursuing helicopter detonating all around them, and are forced to march miles through the Vietnamese jungles without food or water before Chuck finally loads the lot of them into a airplane... which he promptly crash lands.Despite some of the goofier moments (Chuck: "I don't step on toes... I step on necks"), MIA3 carries a fairly serious tone throughout, and much as the previous films drove home the real-world plight of American soldiers abandoned by their country during the conflict in Vietnam, Braddock sheds a little light on the civilian casualties of that dreadful war. The opening sequence in particular, set during the chaos amidst the fall of Saigon, features powerful images that wouldn't be out of place in one of the Oscar-ready portrayals of the Vietnam War fallout released during this same period. It certainly helps that the production values here are the highest of the series, and in that respect Braddock has aged better than its two predecessors (although the two cloying Journey copycat tunes that bookend the film definitely have not).General Quoc's final come-uppance isn't quite as impactive as it could be, but the film's closing moments provide a fitting conclusion to the story, and the series. General Braddock has ostensibly retired (I'm guessing that if Chuck had any interest in doing a Missing In Action 4, it would have happened by now), but the character's fairly short-lived screen presence proved to be a consistently entertaining sector of the '80s B-action canon. Even if Chuck Norris hadn't done roughly 400 other low-budget action movies like Braddock: Missing In Action III, I'd like to think that his legacy would be secured by the not-unsubstantial merits of this outing alone.

After the decidedly mundane sequel to the original film, this Chuck Norris outing served to re-stabilize the balance so to speak, albeit whilst seemingly contradicting the events of the previous entry. The story here concerns our unflappable all American hero, Colonel James Braddock who returns to Vietnam yet again (damn, they must be sick of him by now!) this time to rescue his wife who he previously believed to have been killed way back during the fall of Saigon. As it happens, Braddock is also somewhat surprised to find that he is additionally a father(!) But of course, matters seldom flow smoothly in these flicks and sure enough, barely have our long parted family been reunited before the Vietnamese army sour the occasion. Fear not, for not to let a pesky mere army put a damper on his plans, our man Braddock is soon running around with a handy arsenal and saving a whole mission full of children as he attempts to get them across the border into Thailand.OK, so this is far fetched beyond belief as were its predecessors in fact, but if you can manage to suspend your disbelief and go with the flow, you will likely thoroughly enjoy this feel good action acting.

It's been a long time since I've laughed so hard at a movie. In the last ten minutes Chuck Norris takes on a soldier kungfu style, then survives a grenade that blows up at his feet and takes on a helicopter. All the while these retarded soldiers are watching and claiming they can't cross the border... even though they do as soon as the bady is killed.Oh yeah, and what about that soldier who keeps spouting "I kill you!". Man oh man.I recommend this only to people who are entertained by the "it's so bad it's good" genre.