Following up First Blood, Ted Kotcheff convenes another post-Vietnam therapy session. This one, about a POW rescue operation in post-war Laos, addresses the specific feeling that there is "unfinished business," or, as it is put elsewhere, that the books are still "in the red" (pun intended?). Certainly the Vietnam experience can be said to have undergone some psychological processing when it has become grist for a Dirty Dozen-Guns of Navarone-type plot formula. All the expected stages are run through: roundup of veterans, training period, practice run, and then the real thing. The real thing, as we're calling it, is exciting and unpredictable; the rest is neither of those things. With Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Randall "Tex" Cobb, and Robert Stack. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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