Uncommon Valor

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

Cast

Gene Hackman

as Col. Cal Rhodes

Fred Ward

as Wilkes

Robert Stack

as MacGregor

Patrick Swayze

as Kevin Scott

Harold Sylvester

as Johnson

Randall "Tex" Cobb

as Sailor

Tim Thomerson

as Charts

Lau Nga-Lai

as Lai Fun

Kwan Hi Lim

as Jiang

Kelly Junkerman

as Paul MacGregor

Reviews

Lloyd

Overall, Uncommon Valor (UV) is a less-flashy atypical Hollywood movie of ex-soldiers being reunited to form a team to rescue Vietnam POWs, using good (but not Oscar quality) humor, and decent near-realistic (but not memorable) special effects to tell a 2-part story of forming a rescue team which th...

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