Redemptive "Rambo"
"The war and all this may be wrong, but, dammit don't hate your country for it."
"Hey..., I'd die for it."
"Then what do you want?"
"I want..., what they want. And every other guy that came over here & gave everything he had & spilled his guts, wants. For our country to love us, as much as we love it. That is what I want."
- Rambo speaks, to his Colonel, as the voice of every American Veteran, (past, present, & future) & reminds Americans & the world over that freedom has a price thats worth fighting for, but, sometimes the simple personal rewards are elusive in "Rambo: First Blood Part II"
Thanks to the big screen & video success of "First Blood", Rambo lives on this second installment, thats just as good as the previous film, but, tends to get quite cartoonish towards the films end.
Serving a five year plus jail sentence for the trashing of the town in "First Blood", "Rambo" opens with the former Green Beret hammering...
Great '80's Action Flick!!
I went to see Rambo 2 aka Rambo Missions movie back in 1985 when it first came to the theaters. I went to see it while on Leave from the military with my Dad. It was a fantastic movie for its time, and it made me feel damn proud that I was in the military and serving my country, just as my Dad did during and after the Korean War and the Vietnam War!! Sadly my Dad passed away in 2010 on January 1. In his loving memory and also in remembering seeing Rambo 2 together, which is the very first time that I understood my Dad and what he went through in Vietnam and Korea, and bonding so closely with him at that time, I had a Rambo style survival knife made by hand to honor him by. Now, whenever I grab my beautiful knife to use it, even though it is not an exact Rambo 2 knife replica, I can still hold it and remember my Dad and that wonderful time we spent together watching Rambo 2. Thanks for reading!
The body count rises, as does Rambo's legend!
As the second installment of the "Rambo" saga, this film definitely ups-the-ante in terms of action and body count. "Rambo: First Blood Part II" takes Rambo back to the jungles of Vietnam, where most of the mental traumas that dog him began. His mission is to search for missing POWs, instead he falls right back into a war that, for him, has never really ended.
As I said, the action in this film goes way beyond anything we saw in the first one (but with James Cameron as one of the screenplay writers, that's not exactly a surprise). Less content to let the personal and political dramas propel the action, this film is pretty much the reverse, with the action being cause to create those plot developments. In many way, this film seems to forget the humanity shown in the original and opts to let the excitement of the moment wash over you, like the backwash of an F-16 fighter jet, as the explosive battle sequences blast you against the back wall. Although, while extremely over the...
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