Missing in Action

On the data. The odd shape of this is deliberate and it is a good story. Cannon Films shot the first two films back to back. The prequel, The Beginning, was made first and was meant to come out first. When they looked at both, they decided the other one was better, so they released it as Missing in Action in 1984 and put the prequel out the following year as Missing in Action 2. That is why the numbering and the chronology disagree. Watching the prequel first does not work, because you already know the character survives the camp, and the first film's power comes partly from not knowing what happened to him. The third film drops the numbering to the back of the title and leads with the character's name, which makes it hard to find in an alphabetical list. On the subject matter: these films came out of a genuine and widely believed idea in 1980s America that prisoners were still being held in Vietnam years after the war. No such prisoners were ever found. The films, like Rambo: First Blood Part II the following year, treated it as fact, and they were part of how the belief spread. That context is most of what makes them interesting now.

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