a5c7b9f00b John Rambo who is now in prison after the ruckus he caused in the previous movie, is approached by his former superior, Colonel Trautman. It seems that the government's looking for American MIA's in Vietnam, that are still being held there. Now the man in charge of the mission, Murdock, tells Rambo that his job is to go in, confirm their presence by taking photographs. Rambo senses that Murdock is not what he seems. Rambo goes in takes the photographs, but also takes one of the prisoners with him. When Murdock learns of this, he orders the chopper that's suppose to pick him up to pull out. Rambo is then captured. Obviously Murdock's desire was not to find anyone. Trautman warns him that Rambo's going to come after him. And that's what Rambo's going to do but first he is going after the Vietnamese and Russians, who brutalized him.
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
I don't see much reason to get into this movie in much detail. Sylvester Stallone is once again John Rambo, author and survivor of "A Season in Hell", recruited from prison by his only friend, Major Richard Crenna, to secretly return to Vietnam, take photos of the American prisoners believed to be still held in horrible camps, and return without engaging the enemy.<br/><br/>Fat chance. What if he actually DID nothing more than sneak in, take pics, and sneak out? Who would come to see the movie? <br/><br/>It's essentially a celebration of Stallone's muscles. Preparing for his mission, we see his well-oiled muscles bulging. (They are oiled and bulging throughout.) There is the ritual strapping on of black leather, ugly guns, and even uglier knives. The black guns are cleaned, assembled with loud clacks, and almostoiledStallone's muscles. The bow is tested and, yes, it has enough poundage to drive a bolt through an enemy's forehead. The knife is sharpened with slick snicks.<br/><br/>Stallone and one of his POWs are betrayed by one or two of the suits from Washington, cynical politicians who, you can bet, were never even in a fist fight in grammar school. No guts, you know? Just sit around with their feet on the desk and drink foreign beer.<br/><br/>The movie does what it set out to do, but what it set out to do is meretricious. It deliberately cashes in on the myth popular in the mid-1980s that there were uncountable numbers of MIAs quietly kept in wretched camps by the North Vietnamese. The bumper stickers were ubiquitous. (Free Our MIAs.) Why would they keep them? It was never quite reasoned out but perhaps to turn the POWs into a slave labor force – in a country that has absolutely no resource other than labor. Or maybe for their propaganda valuean instrument to humiliate the United States – a propaganda weapon that the Vietnamese kept secret from the world.<br/><br/>As a captive, Rambo is treated in a Medieval fashion by the North Vietnamese. Dipped to his neck in pig excrement and then hauled out of it by his wrists, his muscles still on display. Then, not content with subhuman Vietnamese, a Russian officer is brought in to play the part of the Gestapo officer – "Vee haff vays of MAKING you remember." A high-tech type, the Russian uses psychology and electricity, not just pig dump.<br/><br/>Rambo returns and declares that he intends to drift aimlessly until "this country loves usmuchwe love it," bringing up another myth that Vets returning from Vietnam were uniformly spat upon and cursed, which is why I guess we elected so many to the Congress and appointed others to high-echelon positions. The last three losing presidential candidates were among that despised group. At least Rambo's aimless drifting left room open for a sequel, which arrived apace.<br/><br/>The action movies with Schwarzenegger and Willis and others were leavened by wisecracks but Rambo is humorless. It marches dully through it's phantasmal ideological swamp, killing without mercy, barely speaking, barely able to speak. To speak is a sign of weakness.
The first Rambo film is a cult classic and one of Stallone's best performances. When making a sequel to a great action film, these films suffer. Examples being Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Terminator 3 and 4 and several other beloved action flicks. Whilst certainly not horrible, Rambo II is not much similar to its predecessor but instead relies heavily on big action scenes. Great performances by Stallone and Richard Crenna,wellsome exciting action, even if it isn't at all like the original and a few character moments save this from being a total disaster of a film.<br/><br/>John Rambo was arrested at the end of the first film for the damages and deaths that he caused in a town. Whilst in jail, Rambo's commander arrives and apologizes to Rambo for the life he now lives and offers to send him back to Vietnam to search for some lost men and thus, give back Rambo his freedom. Reluctantly agreeing, Rambo travels back the world that he so dreads.<br/><br/>The acting is truly great by some and truly annoying by others. Stallone and Crenna are absolutely fantastic in their respective roles with Stallone once more giving such a physical and energetic performance. Every kick he acts or every fire from a gun shot feelscrazy and over the topit should. Stallone even shares a few slightly emotional scenes which are handled well, despite much of the film being a mess. A character like Rambo could be a hard one to like but Stallone certainly brings a likability and pity towards his character. Crenna and Stallone share great chemistry for the few scenes they are in together and their friendship feels like one that two would experience during war time.<br/><br/>Something that makes this a near unrecognizable Rambo film is simultaneously one of the more enjoyable parts of the film and that is obviously the extremely over the top action sequences in the film. The original Rambo film was restricted in big action scenes but more so used the "predator" method. Rambo was a predator who sneaks up on his enemies to eliminate them, occasionally letting himself be spotted by enemies. This was a true magic of the first film but here, Rambo is constantly shown revealing himself to enemies and simply firing shot after shot. Even though he occasionally hides in the film, he is often seen by enemies and completely altering the tone of the film through this. This makes it feel less intense, despite some exciting action sequences. Whilst the original Rambo felt like a late 70s action flick, Rambo II certainly has the feel of an 80s action flick.<br/><br/>Whilst the action scenes are good and bad to the film, the film is truly redeemed enough by a few great character moments suchthe final scene involving Trautment and Rambo. Here, Stallone gives a small speech that is well done and is an image that could be formed in one's mind. Other great character moments are involving Trautment, especially early on where he expresses his concern for Rambo. These moments, though not much, do help to save this film for the better.<br/><br/>'Rambo: The First Blood Part II' is definitely one of the most unrecognizable sequels to one of the cult classics. This sequel's immense difference is evident through big dumb action scenes that go on longer than expected, providing far less emotion and core to the story than the previous entry. New characters aren'tinterestingfrom the first and the story is largely one to not buy. Whilst Rambo II makes for a good action flick it doesn't necessarily make for a great Rambo film but isn't a completely horrid one due to some very great performances and a few great character moments.
Here is a film fully xenophobic, abhorrent film, touting guileless version of military honour, but with Jack Cardiff’s furtive camerawork and some excellent editing, it sucks you in to its disturbing heroic sweep.
By federal order, John Rambo (<a href="/name/nm0000230/">Sylvester Stallone</a>) is released from prison and sent on a covert mission into the jungles of Vietnam in order to document by photograph whether any POWs are still being held there. Aided by Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao (<a href="/name/nm0630100/">Julia Nickson</a>), Rambo turns what is supposed to be a recon mission into a rescue mission. Rambo: First Blood Part II is a sequel to <a href="/title/tt0083944/">First Blood (1982)</a> (1982), which was based on First Blood, a 1972 novel by Canadian-American novelist David Morrell. In the novel, Rambo died at the end of the shoot-out in Hope, Washington. The expanded story and screenplay for Rambo II was written by James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone, and Kevin Jarre. Morrell novelized the movie in 1985. Rambo II was followed by two more sequels, <a href="/title/tt0095956/">Rambo III (1988)</a> (1988) and <a href="/title/tt0462499/">Rambo (2008)</a> (2008). During the mission briefing Murdock (<a href="/name/nm0621008/">Charles Napier</a>) said that he was with 2nd battalion 3rd Marines at Kon Tum in 1966. Just before Rambo boards the plane to Vietnam, he tells Colonel Trautman (<a href="/name/nm0001077/">Richard Crenna</a>) that the 2nd battalion was actually at Kud Sank 1966. Trautman claims he could have mixed it up, but Rambo claims that you couldn't forget something like that. It was later proven that Rambo was right and that Murdock had never served in the Vietnam War. After blowing up the camp and rescuing the POWs, Rambo heads his helicopter toward the American camp in Thailand but is tailed by Lt Col. Podovsky (<a href="/name/nm0000925/">Steven Berkoff</a>), who fires upon him several times. Faking a hit, Rambo lands his copter on a river and plays dead. Thinking he has the advantage, Podovsky lands near Rambo and prepares to fire. Suddenly, Rambo springs to life and fires on Podovsky, destroying him. He then returns to the "Wolf Den" and shoots up Murdock's command center. Holding Murdock at arm's length with his knife, he demands that Murdock locate and rescue any remaining POWs in Vietnam. Assured that the rescued POWs are receiving medical care, Rambo prepares to leave the camp. Trautman informs him that he's received a second Medal of Honor and asks where he is going now that he is free. Rambo replies that he will be staying in Vietnam where all his friends died. Trautman agrees that the war was wrong but warns Rambo not to hate his country for it. "Hate?", Rambo replies, "I'd die for it. What I want…and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had wants…is for our country to love usmuchwe love it." In the final scene, Trautman asks how he will live, and Rambo replies, "Day by day," before walking off. First of all Murdock intentionally sent Rambo to a camp that he believed was empty, his ultimate goal was for Rambo to take pictures of an empty camp so that he could have documented proof that there were no POWs left in Vietnam and therefore Congress and the POWs families would back off about having to find them. In the context of the film, there was a secret deal between the United States and the then-North Vietnamese government in 1972 to release their American POWs by ransom. In order to save some money Murdock stopped the ransom payments from being sent to North Vietnam at some point and the payments that were already sent were not enough to pay for the release of all POWs, leaving many American soldiers still held captive in communist controlled Vietnam long after the war's conclusion. Furthermore if it were discovered that the Vietnamese were still holding POWs, Congress would have immediately resumed the ransom payments to the Vietnamese government in order to release them, possibly costing the United States government millions of dollars in tax payer's money to finish the 1972 ransom deal. Essentially Murdock wanted to be able to tell Congress that he tried and was unable to find any POWs left in Vietnam in order to save a little money which he believes will be supporting the Cold War enemy if sent to Communist Vietnam. If it turned out that Rambo returned with pictures that showed American POWs at the camp then Murdock more than likely was going to "lose" them or digitally alter them to remove the POWs. It would be his word against Rambo's word (at the time an ex-con) and people were more likely to believe Murdock over Rambo. However Rambo didn't take pictures, instead he took one of the POWs with him and Murdock knew there was no way he could ever keep the POW from telling the media that there were still men out there so Murdock therefore had to abandon Rambo and the POW. Ericson was ordered by Murdock to betray Rambo by flying off and leaving Rambo and the POW behind and a reluctant Ericson didhe was told. The pilot's reluctance didn't matter to Rambo. • Captain Vinh: Burned alive in the rice field<br/><br/>• Lieutenant Tay: Blown up by explosive arrow<br/><br/>• Sergeant Yushin: Thrown out of helicopter<br/><br/>• Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky: Blown up by RPG<br/><br/>• Ericson: Hit in the groin with M60E machine gun<br/><br/>• Murdoch: Threatened by Rambo with knife<br/><br/>Strangely enough however Lifer (the mercenary who pulled a gun on Trautman preventing him from picking Rambo up) is never brought to justice. By far the biggest red flag in terms of the content is the violence. While there is a very high body count there is very little blood or gore and it seems like this would be standard PG-13 level violence (keep in mind that films like Star Wars also have very high body counts yet are nowhere near R-rated material). However along with the violence the film does contain one usage of the word "fuck" along with other usages of "goddamn" and "bastard". There is also a shot of Stallone's rear end along with references to prostitutes but what probably pushes this film into the R-rating is the emotional intensity. At one point in the film Rambo is condemned to spend the rest of his life in the same POW camp he was a prisoner of during the war (he only would have had to serve 5 more years in an American prison had he not accepted the mission), he is submerged up to his chin in a bog of pig feces and is covered by leaches. On top of that the film depicts POWs suffering in deplorable conditions and it is revealed that they have been living there for over a decade. When you add in the torture scene (there is no blood but still disturbing) it produces a very mild R-rated film.<br/><br/>What is very interesting however is that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came out the previous year with a PG rating despite being slightly more graphic and violent than Rambo: First Blood Part II. It was also justemotionally intenseit featured innocent children turned into slaves who were frequently beaten with whips, at one point a young boy begs for death and of course there is the infamous "heart" scene. There was also a torture scene that was considerably more graphic than the "electrocution" scene in Rambo: First Blood Part II (Indy is beaten with his own whip and receives numerous welts on his back with blood oozing out). However Temple of Doom had little to no profanity (one usage of "shit'), no nudity and only very mild sexual references. It is also wildly rumored that if Temple of Doom had been made by anyone other than Spielberg and Lucas it would have been slapped with an R-rating.
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