Rambo First Blood Part II
John Rambo is released from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he';;d want to return - the jungles of Vietnam, to bring back POW';;s still held in Vietnam. For Rambo, this is what he would do best.
8 February 1949, Hong Kong
12 April 1936, Mt. Union, Kentucky, USA
11 September 1958, Singapore
30 November 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 March 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
28 April 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
June 07, 2010
What makes this icon so significant is how wholly he was embraced by the Reagan era. After all, it only seems natural to respond to B-movie action stars when your president was one as well.
February 02, 2008
It's awesome
June 24, 2006
The body count is rising, Sly's pecs are blowing up, and Rambo himself is becoming more of a brand-name than a character, a mascot for masochism and murderous self-assertion.
January 14, 2008
All in all, it's a pretty offensive movie, especially to the Americans who fought in Vietnam.
October 25, 2014
An endless parade of people glowering, being pensive, skulking, but with all the sonic and visual trappings of a trashy action movie insisting that it's big noisome fun.
January 14, 2008
A thoroughly unpleasant project, quite apart from its creepy populist posturing (Stallone seemed determined to become the Huey Long of the movies).
December 15, 2010
Sly shoots up Vietnam in glorified '80s actioner.
May 20, 2003
To anyone who doesn't share the camera's adoration, this sort of behavior becomes so comic that Rambo turns into something of a camp classic.
June 14, 2008
Rambo's significant beefcake factor is so pronounced in First Blood: Part II that it practically begs to be taken as queer-baiting camp.
April 11, 2016
In credibility, the action is as ludicrous as old Saturday-afternoon serials; in execution, the skills help it to skate over the incredibilities.
January 24, 2008
...precisely the sort of unapologetically brutal piece of work that's sorely missing from contemporary multiplexes.
