DIRECTOR: George P. Cosmatos. CAST: Sylvester Stallone, Richard
Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Julia Nickson, Martin Kove, George
Cheung, Voyo Goric.
RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II dispenses with its predecessor’s nihilistic statements about war veterans and mental health in favor of recreating John Rambo as a beloved Reagan-era shoot-‘em-up action hero. Rambo’s superior Colonel Trautman removes him from a labor camp to send him on a top-secret mission locating POWs still held captive in Vietnam. Corrupt government officials undermine his efforts, leaving him behind in his own personal hell. Rambo then embarks on his own mission to bring our boys home and kill every enemy in sight. Russian mercenaries are also involved in this insidious plot because it is 1985 and President Reagan would not be as big a fan of this movie without a Soviet bad guy. Good brainless fun, but there are other action movies from these years that do a more satisfying job with the one-man army concept. 
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