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Better than Rambo?

posted 18 years ago by Groovy_ghoulie
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omg im watching this for the first time in the same week that i saw the whole of Rambo 2 for the fist time.

As an actual film this is better than Rambo 2.

Tho i prefer Uncommon Valour to both of them

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[–] SALEMS-LOT 18 years ago

RAMBO 2 RIPPED THIS ONE OFF,WITH A COMBINATION OF PART 2 AS WELL.DON'T FORGET,CHUCK STARTED THE ONE MAN ARMY VIETNAM MOVIES,AND EVERYONE ELSE FOLLOWED.EVEN DAVID CARRADINE GOT INVOLVED IN IT AS WELL,WITH P.O.W. THE ESCAPE,LOL.

[–] SALEMS-LOT 17 years ago

RAMBO 2 WAS JUST A RIP OFF OF THIS ONE.ACTUALLY NOW IF YOU WATCH MISSING IN ACTION 2:THE BEGINNING,YOU WILL SEE WHAT HE WAS BEING CHARGED FOR IN THE FIRST ONE.PART 2 WAS A PREQUEL.

[–] SALEMS-LOT 17 years ago

IF U WATCH MISSING IN ACTION 2,THEN U WILL SEE IT IS A PREQUEL TO THIS ONE.U GET TO SEE WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO CHARGE BRADDOCK WITH IN THIS ONE.THE RAT IN THE BAG SCENE WAS VERY INTENSE.

[–] jaylee7777 16 years ago

eeeh wrong, James Cameron wrote the treatment to Rambo II in 1983, and Cannon films heard about the the story line and shot MIA I and II back to back in 1984, before Rambo II was released!

MPAA... cinema enemy #1

[–] scott-sw 16 years ago

Not only did MIA come out a good 18 months before Rambo 2, Chuck Norris' action was a lot more believable ... and he didn't give a lame-ass speech at the end.

[–] edlitz36 16 years ago

Not only did MIA come out a good 18 months before Rambo 2.

Perhaps you should go back to school and learn how to count. MIA came out 6 months before Rambo II. YET, MIA was a rip-off. Who would have thought a movie studio would actually rip-off a big blockbuster STILL in production?? Well, here ya go with MIA!

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See? I can type like a moron, too.

[–] wallacesawyer 16 years ago

I would probably say MISSING was better than the Rambo sequels, but FIRST BLOOD was better than this one.

If only these two mcould team up.

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[–] SALEMS-LOT 15 years ago

RAMBO 2 RIPPED OFF STUFF FROM THIS SO BAD.AND I WONDER IF THEY TOOK ANYTHING FROM PART 2,BEING IT WAS MADE ALONG WITH THIS ONE AS WELL.

[–] Cletus_Yokel 12 years ago

[–] stickley85 12 years ago

I agree with you,Missing In Action had heart to it.It had that sense where a man was determined to do what the rest of America wouldn't do,and that was get our men back home.Rambo 2 tried to do the same,but it went a little more over the top,in my eyes.You could also notice a few scenes in each film are almost very similiar too.

[–] phillipsdan83 11 years ago

I prefer MISSING IN ACTION because most of the action isn't as over the top as RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2, but I prefer MISSING IN ACTION 2: THE BEGINNING to either film because Braddock comes off as a real jerk a lot of the time in the original and keeps his mouth shut and bides his time in the prequel.