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Uncommon valor4/8/2023 would've benefitted from a better musical score (since there really isn't much of one to speak of). One of Kotcheff's better films, certainly a step up from FIRST BLOOD. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. The idea: A career colonel suspects his son is still being held as a prisoner of war in Laos, and organizes a team of his son's old Army buddies to go in and bring him out alive. ![]() it's just hilarious to see him so caught up in his role that his dialog becomes unintelligable later in the film amidst all his screaming and yelling. The basic idea of 'Uncommon Valor' is so interesting that it's all they can do to make a routine formula movie out of it. Any film with Reb Brown happily chanting "bouncin' betty blows their balls off!" can't be that bad. ![]() On the plus side, Uncommon Valor also features a wealth of your favorite B-actors, like Fred Ward (Tremors 1 and 2), Randall Cobb (Golden Child), Patrick Swayze (Steel Dawn), and the aforementioned Reb Brown (Robowar, Strike Commando, Yor, etc.). The memorial is dedicated to all personnel of the United States Marine Corps who have died in the defense of their country since 1775. but it's just so fun in an escapist, outlandish, Swiss-Family-Robinson sort of way you just have to love it. The Marine Corps War Memorial, also called the Iwo Jima Memorial, is a military memorial statue outside the walls of the Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va. Sure the premise proved popular enough to inspire several later films like COBRA MISSION, MISSING IN ACTION, and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2 (Director Kotcheff directed FIRST BLOOD). Rhodes (Hackman) recruits marines to go back into the jungles. by Robert "maybe you can solve a mystery" Stack no less! This film has an outrageously fun concept, and it's also done remarkably well with half the film spent with the guys practicing their mission in an elaborate training-ground, and the second half with them pumping round after round into gook soldier. Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Uncommon Valor movie reviews & Metacritic score: With money from an oil tycoon (Stack), Col. Gene Hackman gives possibly his best performance as a disgruntled father of an MIA who leads a bunch of 'nam vets back to 'nam on an unsanctioned, privately-funded mission. In fact everyone's favorite beefy slab of machine-gun toting girlie-screaming mayhem has a pretty minor role in this one. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures. Highly trained mercenaries + precise tactical mission + lots of explosions + Reb Brown! no, Reb didn't exactly star in this film. Uncommon Valor is a 1983 American action movie directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Tim Thomerson, Reb Brown, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Gail Strickland, Jane Kaczmarek, Michael Dudikoff.
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