This revenge drama directed by John Flynn and written by Paul Schrader is way up there on the gruesome scale. It has echoes of Taxi Driver and, I believe, anticipates The Deer Hunter which came out the following year.
William Devane plays an army officer who comes back from Vietnam after spending years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton POW camp. He returns to find that his wife has moved on with a guy from the neighborhood and his young son, who has no memory of his father, is hoping to get to know his dad.
However that is not to be.
Tommy Lee Jones is amazing as a fellow POW who accompanies Devane on his quest for revenge. Linda Haynes also shines as a young woman interested in the uncommunicative former officer.
William Devane plays an army officer who comes back from Vietnam after spending years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton POW camp. He returns to find that his wife has moved on with a guy from the neighborhood and his young son, who has no memory of his father, is hoping to get to know his dad.
However that is not to be.
Tommy Lee Jones is amazing as a fellow POW who accompanies Devane on his quest for revenge. Linda Haynes also shines as a young woman interested in the uncommunicative former officer.