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Just as John Rambo settles in Thailand building a temple and doing some stick fighting on the side, his former superior Colonel Trautman comes to him with an offer to help the rebels in Afghanistan against the Russians. Rambo politely declines but changes his mind when Trautman gets captured. I'll just now say this was another exciting thriller in the series that stayed intense throughout. I also liked some of the humorous lines between those two. For a long while, it seemed this would be it for the series but 20 years later, a new one would come out. I can't wait to see it soon, that's for sure!

Having just seen the first two of Chuck Norris' Missing in Action films, I then decided I had to watch this last entry in the series soon after. This one begins during The Fall of Saigon where he's waiting for his Vietnamese wife at the American Embassy. Unfortunately, an explosion occurs at her hotel and when he arrives, he thinks the burned woman he witnesses is her but that wife actually left beforehand. So 12 years later, a man of the cloth tells him she's alive and had a son with him. I'll stop there and just say there's plenty of excitement through most of the drama though the reunion was a nice break. The villain seems to be on the campy side every time he mentions the lead character's last name though, that's for sure! Oh, but there's also an intense torture scene involving that villain so during that part, he's very effective. In summary, I found Braddock: Missing in Action III very entertaining, perhaps a little better than Missing in Action 2: The Beginning though my rating for this one remains the same as that one.

Having just watched John Wayne's The Green Berets as well as his documentary No Substitute for Victory, both of which were pro-US involvement in the Vietnam War, I'm now watching some of his World War II films starting with this one which I first saw at least the last hour of during either late '70s or early '80s when I was a pre-teen viewing this on "The John Wayne Theatre" which was on late night Friday on my local Baton Rouge station WBRZ-2. Here, he plays a captain in China just before Pearl Harbor who's dealing with too many deaths on his command in dealing with Japanese aggression. He's also dating an English nurse played by Anna Lee who works for the missionary. Into this mix is also a hotshot pilot and friend of The Duke's played by John Carroll who also has designs on Ms. Lee. I'll just now say this was quite exciting concerning the mix of actual footage and special effects and good acting by the three principals and others. Oh, and the way the enemies were disposed of did seem pretty gory for the period it was made in, that's for sure! So on that note, I highly recommend Flying Tigers. P. S. Mr. Corroll was from New Orleans which is a two--hour drive from where I live. And among the players is Charles Lane, here speaking through a radio wire, who was also in my all-time favorite movie, It's a Wonderful Life.