If you loved Missing in Action, try Red Scorpion

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Joseph Zito, and they sit in Action / Adventure / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to Missing in Action, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Red Scorpion is

You're a Spetsnaz agent in Angola, tasked to crush anti-communist forces. But the brutal reality of Soviet expansionism confronts you. The mission shifts. Zito’s film arrived late to the ideological battles of the 1980s, but its visceral thrills linger.

If you loved Missing in Action, try Red Scorpion

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