Chuck finds out the Vietnamese wife he thought was dead has been alive all these years and has a 12 year-old son that is half-Chuck. So Chuck does what he does best and goes back into 'Nam to rescue his wife and son. What the hell, while he's at it, might as well rescue a bunch of other Amerasian orphans as well.Least of the MIA series but still watchable for Chuck fans. The action is solid old school Cannon stuff. I'm a fan but not everybody is. I doubt you're watching this by choice unless you are a fan, though. As with the other MIA films, and I suppose Chuck movies in general, this one generates a lot of hate for reasons that have little or nothing to do with the quality of the movie itself. Directorial debut of Aaron Norris. Look for Keith David in a cameo near the beginning.

Braddock: Missing in Action III starts in 1975 in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon where Colonel James Braddock (co-writer Chuck Norris) is searching for his Vietnamese wife Lin Tan Cang (Miki Kim) who works for the US embassy there, unfortunately Lin has decided to go home to pick up some stuff & on the way back to the embassy her bag is stolen with her ID in it. Unable to prove who she is Lin is abandoned, meanwhile Braddock thinks that Lin is dead after seeing a badly burned woman's body carried out of where they live. Years later & Braddock is living back in the US after the Vietnam war finishes, while having a drink Braddock is approached by Reverend Polanski (Yehuda Efroni) who claims that his wife Lin is still alive living in poverty in Vietnam & that he also has a son. The CIA won't help so Braddock decides to go in alone & rescue his wife & son but the Vietnamese authorities discover what he's doing & set out to capture & punish him for war crimes...Originally set to be directed by Joseph Zito who apparently had 'creative' & 'personal' differences with star Chuck Norris & so his brother Aaron Norris stepped up from second unit director to the main man running the show, while not particularly bad as far as second tier action films go Braddock: Missing in Action III isn't particularly good either. I have now seen all three Missing in Action films & what's more I have seen them all within the past three days, that's one Missing in Action film a day. I need a lie down just thinking about it. Now lets talk continuity, what's the point of even making a Missing in Action films out of this otherwise generic one man hero action film script if your not going to even stick to the basic continuity of the series? Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) starts in 1972 as Chuck Norris is captured by the enemy & he is held as a POW for ten years, that means he was in a Vitnamese prison camp in 1975 so how can he be flying around Saigon looking for his wife? That's another thing too, Braddock was never married in the previous two films so how come he is in this & to the enemy as well, Braddock has just gone down in my opinion as he has not only married a Vietnamese but he isn't the single minded, soulless superhuman killing machine with no life that the first two films painted him as. Come on guy's did none of them even bother watching the first two films? Why did Chuck Norris himself not point out the contradictions? As for the film itself Braddock this time is waging war on evil Vietnamese General's to get his wife & son back, the script also throw's in a load of orphaned children just to turn up the false sentiment even more. Again there's some fun to be had with some unintentionally funny moments, when Braddock meets his wife again for the first time she says 'I'm sorry I am not beautiful for you anymore', well Lin don't worry about it since Chuck Norris himself is hardly an oil painting. The end as Braddock tells his son that he loves him & is proud of him is baffling since they only met each other less than a day ago & have barely spoken between Norris killing Vietnamese soldiers & blowing things up.The action scenes are pretty decent actually, from a car chase to various shoot-outs to explosions to skydiving to boat, helicopter & plane stunts to some good old fashion hand to hand combat. It shot quite nicely & I would have thought the budget would have been fairly decent. The nice bright lush Philippines jungle adds to the glossy look. During filming in the Philippines a helicopter crash killed four people & injured another five, curiously while shooting Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990) another Chuck Norris action film shot in the Philippines by Cannon Films & also directed by Aaron Norris another helicopter crashed killing five people that time. Probably a bit more violent than the previous two with some gory action including exploding people & people getting shot in the head. Although competent the action never really excites, the film just plays out & while it's not terrible it's hard to get involved in the story.Shot in the Philippines it looks nice enough, there's plenty of Vietnamese buildings & equipment for Chuck Norris to blow up & plenty of evil soldiers for him to kill. The scene at the end as the US soldiers look on from the other side of the border as Norris mows down lines of Vietnamese soldiers & cheer as he does so is really quite sickening in it's message & imagery. The acting is bad, bad, bad. Chuck Norris is bad. Everyone else is bad. The acting is just bad.Braddock: Missing in Action III has some half decent action scenes & some quite funny moments as Chuck Norris tries to get emotional with the son he never knew he had but overall at over 100 minutes long I wouldn't call it anything better than a mildly entertaining time waster.

Chuck Norris made a third film in the missing in action series with each film even more preposterous than the previous one. Here, as Braddock, he returns to Vietnam yet again to search for a wife and son he didn't know were alive. Norris encounters another evil general, as he did in the previous film, who also has a penchant for torture. By the film's end, Norris saves an entire orphanage of Amerasian kids from the general and his cronies. The first half hour of the film is filled with a lot of unnecessary exposition before things get going. The middle third of the film is probably the best and most enjoyable because it's more realistic and tension-filled than the last third. The last half hour once again reduces all tension and action to a comic book level with Norris turning into a one man army yet again; he fires weapons, snaps necks, and uses enough kicks to run a martial arts class. Unlike previous films of his, Norris only yields one great line of dialog. Remember, he doesn't step on toes; he steps on necks. It's probably slightly below average for a Chuck Norris film. *1/2 of 4 stars.

It's been a long time since I've laughed so hard at a movie. In the last ten minutes Chuck Norris takes on a soldier kungfu style, then survives a grenade that blows up at his feet and takes on a helicopter. All the while these retarded soldiers are watching and claiming they can't cross the border... even though they do as soon as the bady is killed.Oh yeah, and what about that soldier who keeps spouting "I kill you!". Man oh man.I recommend this only to people who are entertained by the "it's so bad it's good" genre.