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Bookmark this pageUncommon Valor (1983)
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Kotcheff's film may look like a none too subtle piece of wish fulfilment, but is in fact grounded in one of the many painful emotional outcomes of the Vietnam war. Hackman is haunted by his son's fate - MIA (missing in action) - and so assembles a team of the usual veterans: the jock, the pilot, the war-junkie, the Tai Chi freak, and the one who can't sleep at nights. They then undergo the classic 'mission movie' format: first they train in a model camp, then they do it for real, where nothing goes as planned and acts of uncommon valour are called for. After North Dallas Forty and First Blood, Kotcheff seems to be moving into the action picture arena, and he acquits himself admirably with the more strenuous details of firefighting. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Producer: John Milius, Buzz Feitshans
Cast: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Patrick Swayze, Harold Sylvester, Tim Thomerson full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 105 mins
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