Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

David Carradine makes you believe a laid back lethargic soldier can become a one man killing machine in the jungles of the 'Nam. This film is lots of fun, anybody expecting military and historical accuracy will suffer the same kind of disappointment as someone expecting to see David Carradine perform with all the speed and agility of Bruce Lee.Carradine and his fellow P.O.W.s suffer at the hands of a VC officer who secretly harbors a desire for the American dream, he demands that Carradine aid him in achieving it. Instead the Tai Chi expert and the dependable Steve James (you could pair James up with Hugh Grant and still be guaranteed victory) serve up a healthy dose of mayhem and sends Charlie running most ricki tik. If you've run out of Chuck Norris war films to watch, P.O.W. the Escape will fill the void.

David carradine leads the way in this all action epic, which is basically the Great Escape, but set in Veatnam, but with a corrupt Vietnamese prison camp general, as played by Mako and a traitorous double crossing American soldier Sparks as played by Charles R Floyd. The basic story revolves around Carradine getting captured by the Veatcong and meeting up with the corrupt Vietnamese general who steals the Gold from his captors like watches and gold necklace's. Anyway he is desperate to get back to his "home" in America.Anyway, there is not enough action scenes particularly in the middle of the film, even though it does pick up towards the end with a large battle scene where Carradine saves a American firebase under attack from hordes of Vietnamese soldiers, single handily added to that, a rushed climax which involves Carradine running around a small village while killing several soldiers. This film is good for b action movie fans and little else, but still contains some good harmless fun.

Yet another right wing action film from Cannon Films, P.O.W. The Escape (love that title) feeds the fantasy that American servicemen were abandoned by their country when the Vietnam War wound down in 1974. In a part surely written for Chuck Norris, David Carradine plays Colonel Cooper, a macho American soldier charged with getting 'behind enemy lines' and liberating a bunch of prisoners from the brutal hands of the Viet Cong, personified by evil and two-faced Captain Vinh (Mako). There's action aplenty, naturally, a lot of convoluted plot machinations revolving around some stolen gold, and some absurd developments that keep the characters chasing after each other in the most unlikely circumstances. Chuck Norris' favourite (and best) sidekick, Steve James, is on hand as well, and his presence (plus the Philippines location work) makes this a classic entry in the Cannon canon.

I can't believe this played once in theaters. Everything is bad and especially the direction. Even Steve James, this underrated second-fiddle, can't save this. Hopeless