Rambo: First Blood Part II Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985 Directed by George P. Cosmatos
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What most people call hell, he calls home.
Col. Troutman recruits ex-Green Beret John Rambo for a highly secret and dangerous mission. Teamed with freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo goes deep into Vietnam to rescue POWs. Deserted by his own team, he's left in a hostile jungle to fight for his life, avenge the death of a woman and bring corrupt officials to justice.
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You're not expendable.
-Co BaoThe sequel to First Blood, one of the greatest action movies of all time, is nothing more then a big dumb 80s action movie. It might be the king of big dumb 80s action movies, but it's still a shell of what First Blood was.
The plot itself isn't all that bad... after you get passed the set up. They need to send someone on a covert operation to Vietnam to take pictures of a prison camp to prove or disprove the presence of American POWs. Who would be perfect for this mission? Well John Rambo of course! You know that guy that had a mental breakdown 3 years ago because of the Vietnam War…
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There were at least two high profile odes to testosterone of the pull-the-superhuman-war-hero-out-of-retirement-for-a-suicide-rescue-mission variety in 1985: Rambo: First Blood Part II and Commando. Both traffic in the big, loud, and dumb of 1980s Cold War action tropes. But only Commando is actually fun, because it has the good sense not to take itself so seriously.
Each of Arnold’s one-liners in Commando is a winking acknowledgement that this is high octane escapism, a celebration of wanton destruction in the name of good versus cartoonish evil. Heavy themes are incongruous with that celebration; they don’t sell popcorn. But First Blood Part II holds on tight to both its explosions and its politics, and its heavy-handed protest of America’s shabby treatment of her…
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Not as good as the first but it's still pretty badass.
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More gung ho and patriotic in a way, but also a damning indictment of the US Military's attitude towards its own POWs.
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Ao contrário da primeira parte da saga este aqui foge do dramalhão de acção e irrompe nos facilitismos do cinema de acção dos anos oitenta. Não acho que se tenham espalhado ao comprido mas conhecendo o inicio e o fim da trilogia é difícil não ficar com a sensação de sabe a pouco.
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It's got neither the intensity and juxtaposition of setting from First Blood, nor the over-the-top, high-gloss 80's action feel of Rambo III. It's one of those sequels that's not only terrible in its own right, it tries its best to trample all over the original as well. The script is its biggest problem, a surprise since it's by Stallone and James Cameron, both of whom have earned their writing chops many times over. There's no danger, the plot is aggressively idiotic and makes no sense on any level apart from a loosely connected series of explosions, and the only character development occurs when Rambo's de-facto girlfriend dies literally three seconds after confessing her feelings for him. I bet that made him mad!! Also, apparently the correct way for America to atone for the sins of Vietnam was BLOODTHIRSTY REVENGE AGAINST THE VIETNAMESE AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATIC STRAWMEN. BOOM! YAY!
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Rambo's love interest, the helicopter leap and the end credit music is worthy of three stars alone.
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A far different direction than the original 'First Blood', it seems the idea was now to craft Sylvester Stallone in a vehicle of action films getting bigger, bolder and louder each time. A stark contrast to the darker, quieter and more muted tone of the first film, 'First Blood Part II' maintains as much of the haunted, battle scarred fragility of John Rambo that Stallone can use under new direction but it's not really as strong this time around, except for another bleak ending.
The film that was a benchmark for doezens of classic video game spin-offs and direct-to-video action clones, Rambo is tasked with the goal of proving that the old Vietnamese prison camps of the war are now…
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Well, I suppose this had to become a cartoon sooner or later. I still see only Gizmo as Rambo preps himself, montage-style.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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no heart like the first but infinitely higher death toll, brash and cheesy- like a fondued cheese roll
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An absolutely ridiculous action film that would be a disgrace to the well-scripted drama of the first if it wasn't so much damn fun. John Rambo is brought in to take some pictures of POWs several years after the end of Vietnam. However, when his country abandons him AND the POWs, Rambo is forced to take action and kill all of North Vietnam in the process. Never been much for generic explosions (at least add some uniqueness to the chaos), but there's just so many of them in this one that they elevate the cheesy material. The ham-fisted political message and Frank Stallone-sung theme song just adds to the unintentional laughs.
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Better than I thought I remembered it being. Actually a pretty solid action flick.
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Is there even much of a plot here? Rambo is sent in to take pictures in a Vietnam camp, but finds it's not what he was told. Before long, he's massacring half of Vietnam, plus all the Russians soldiers there who are siding with them.
The bad guys aren't given much personality, but that they are evil and need to die. And boy do they. Guns, Bow & arrows or by helicopters, there is so much over the top action in this thing. It isn't as small as the first film, as I'd be willing to bet he's kills over 500 people here.
I kind of dug the woman helping him, but once again she doesn't get much back story. And…
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Ao contrário da primeira parte da saga este aqui foge do dramalhão de acção e irrompe nos facilitismos do cinema de acção dos anos oitenta. Não acho que se tenham espalhado ao comprido mas conhecendo o inicio e o fim da trilogia é difícil não ficar com a sensação de sabe a pouco.