Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Theatrical release poster
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 (1985-03-02) (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.

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.

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]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=missinginaction2.htm
2. ^ 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. 

External links

• Missing in Action 2: The Beginning at the Internet Movie Database
• Missing in Action 2: The Beginning at Box Office Mojo
• Missing in Action 2: The Beginning at AllRovi