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Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

George Pan Cosmatos

Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Steven Berkoff, Charles Napier ...

5.6

21,621

Action. Adventure John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Vietnam (...) seems to be somewhat smaller than Central Park, though rather more thickly planted. It's the sort of place where, if you stand in one spot for 30 minutes, everybody you have ever known will eventually walk by."	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"The film turned John Rambo into a defining pop-culture icon, making 'Rambo' both a noun and a verb for 'toughest of tough guys' in pop culture vocabulary"	POS
United States	Variety	"[An] overwrought sequel"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"The result is entertaining if implausible as Stallone flexes his muscles for some cartoon-like heroics (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"A favourite of those adolescent enough in the eighties to enjoy its macho, right-wing cliches with no qualms... (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"The body count is rising (...) and Rambo himself is becoming more of a brand-name than a character, a mascot for masochism and murderous self-assertion."	NEG
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The picture seems deliberately trite, blunt, and manipulative, as if the producers didn't trust their audience to respond to anything else."	NEG
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"A ferocious action ride (...) A movie of immense scale (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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