Uncommon Valor

Name: Uncommon Valor
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Released: December 16, 1983
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 38
Cast: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze

1983

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 16, 1983 | R

Starring: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze

Summary: With money from an oil tycoon (Stack), Col. Rhodes (Hackman) recruits marines to go back into the jungles to find his son, who he believes is being held as a POW in Laos.

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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Roger Ebert

The basic idea of Uncommon Valor is so interesting that it's all they can do to make a routine formula movie out of it. But they do. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Hackman's performance, beautiful photography by Stephen Burum and Ric Waite, and some effective action direction from Ted Kotcheff make this watchable, but the jingoist wish-fulfillment inherent in the material is ultimately disturbing. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Action fans may well find Uncommon Valor enjoyably familiar, but for others it will smack of war movie dej a-vu, despite the new angle provided by its concern for American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

All of the top talent involved - especially Gene Hackman - is hardly needed to make Uncommon Valor what it is, a very common action picture. Read full review

Michael Blowen

With Ted Kotcheff's hackneyed direction and Joe Gayton's cliche-ridden script, this version of "Missing" for the soldier of fortune set is one of the most reprehensible exploitation films of the year.

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TheGeographer52

Dec 30, 2012

Stupid film made for stupid people. I guess that means I'm stupid for watching it.

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