Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) is the finest pure bad-ass the best action film of the 80's of all time for me. My number 1 personal favorite film in the action genre I think it is one of the best action movies of all time. I love this film to death and it is my childhood film. Sylvester Stallone returns as John Rambo, the former Green Beret who is given the opportunity for a Presidential pardon if he accepts a mission to confirm the existence of American POW's captured during the Vietnam War. Rambo: First Blood Part II influenced many of action films. Commando come out the same year and it was very competitive with Rambo but this movie won because it was more box office successful. I love this film to death It is the sequel to First Blood (1982), and the second installment in the Rambo film series In my opinion it is Stallone's best film."Sir, do we get to win this time? "Awesome and very great intense underrated sequel . it Is a very joy great action movie . Action adventure fun with some substance. Different than the first one , but great as an archetypical good versus bad movie. Very decent, good movie, very entertaining, fast paced wonderful action Hard-R fight scenes and some nice one-liners war movie. There's no shaky cam or CGI here but real explosions. Bad-ass action film I absolutely love it to death! James Cameron and Sylvester Stallone wrote the script that is why this movie was such a bad-ass action. Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Aliens proves to be one of the best action movies from James Cameron he wrote and directed them, that is why Rambo: First Blood Part II was such a success. Brilliantly directed by George P. Cosmatos who later directed Cobra (with Sylvester Stallone again) Leviathan (with Richard Crenna again) and Tombstone. Of course, this wouldn't be an action movie without some action. There's plenty of it, and it's perfectly done. Great action, a slick pace and a barrage of great moments (a random soldier being shot by an exploding arrow being my personal favorite) may not make this high art, but it does create a fun time at the movies, which is what movies are meant to do. It also helps that it has a great score, which sets the tone very well. You have ton's of explosions real practical effects. You see a lot of heavy weapons and they are used well. Rambo uses a knife and kills the bad guys, well, he's Rambo and his knife completes him. Rambo uses Hoyt Archery compound bow which has been well know as the "Torque Bow" because of the high explosive arrow tips. I have never seen in any action movie a bow and explosives arrows. Rambo uses a flying helicopter kills all the bad guys blows whole base and saves POW's captured prisoners. In this movie you have Russians and Vietcongs as the bad guys. Rambo blows up an enemy boat by pulling an RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher blows them to hell. Great explosion I have ever seen. Rambo blows up Podovsky's Hind helicopter with another grenade launcher M72 LAW.Excellent solid cast Sylvester Stallone does great excellent performance as legendary John Rambo Vietnam vet. I love the character to death. Richard Crenna R.I.P. as Col. Samuel Trautman was excellent I really miss him. Charles Napier R.I.P. as Marshall Murdock was fantastic bad guy. The acting is fantastic from Richard Crenna and Charles Napier the politics were important, such as a right-wing stance coming from Trautman and his nemesis, Murdock, contrasted by Rambo's obvious neutrality. Great music score from Jerry Goldsmith R.I.P.10/10 Bad-ass action film I absolutely love it to death, it is my number 1 action film ! Puts most of action movies to shame. Today they aren't action movies like are this one. Today they are just lousy CGI bullsh** crap.

The first film in the Rambo series, FIRST BLOOD, was a taut and realistic thriller that used the plight of Vietnam veterans as a basis for a survival adventure film. The sequel, RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, is an all-out-action, over-the-top jungle adventure film that uses the plight of Vietnam veterans and POWs as a basis for an OTT thrill ride. Made in the same year as the similarly outrageous COMMANDO, this is very much a 'guy' film – it's over-the-top, frequently unbelievable, and packed with all manner of violence and mayhem to get crowds whooping. It may not be very politically correct, and yes, it may glorify violence – but it makes for one heck of a watch! Stallone has long been a favourite of mine and he once again shows why he's such a top star. Physically, he's a man mountain who you believe can easily wipe out a Vietcong jungle outpost single-handedly. Emotionally, he runs deep, using his eyes to transmit his feelings in a low key turn. I've loved jungle films for as long as I can remember and this film makes great use of them as we watch Rambo tracking and eliminating his enemies one at a time.Much of the action is saved for the unbelievable final half hour, in which the carnage reaches outlandish levels as Rambo uses rocket launchers, exploding arrows, a helicopter, and his trusty machine gun to tackle the enemy. A supporting cast of dependables putting in decent turns – Crenna, Napier, Berkoff – adds to the fun. My only complaint is with the music, which is frequently underused. A loud, stirring soundtrack of the kind featured in RAMBO (2008) would have enhanced this film no end, but they frequently miss the cues. Nevertheless RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II is a film you can really get your teeth into: light, airy, full of explosions and death. They don't make 'em like this any more, God bless 'em.

Rambo: First Blood Part 2 is basically Stallone's Commando version since it came out in the same year with Schwarzenegger's John Matrix Classic. What really surprises me is that Commando got a 69% on RT but this one got a 29% i believe and it's basically the same film a one man army type of film with Sly going crazy upon Vietnam and then Murdock. Trautman also returns for the sequel by the side of John Rambo since a whole conspiracy has been made upon him when the Russians get into this whole war too. Rambo 2 is my 2nd favorite in the Series and has some really cool action scenes and one liners. First Blood Part II is Awesometacular!!!

Say what you will this is still a pretty great movie, not sure why the critics hate it so much. I hadn't seen it in years and had an excellent time watching it again, just a classic. John J Rambo is such a fantastic character; silent, abused, angry and tortured. The movie is filled with extreme action sequences and the body count is high but its kinda awesome. It's also a much bigger movie than 'First Blood' in every way; bigger budget, bigger stakes, bigger body count, bigger hair and muscles.I will admit that at first it did feel a little on the cheesy side, as most of those 80's action movies do now, filled with big bright explosions, bodies being thrown through the air, our hero in tight fitting jeans but its stood up pretty well considering.Part ll finds John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) doing hard time in jail when his former boss, Col. Troutman (Richard Crenna), shows up and offers him a deal. The US government needs someone to travel to Vietnam and try to find American prisoners of war, if Rambo agrees his criminal record will be expunged. Rambo takes the assignment but his anger reaches explosive levels when it turns out that the whole mission is just PR, he's not actually supposed to find any prisoners. Fueled by fury, he rounds up the POWs and the action reaches explosive levels as he then takes on both the Russian and Vietnamese armies.There were several things I loved about this movie; the use of the crossbow, that Rambo was shirtless for half of it (Sly looks amazing). I loved that he got to be in love for a whole 2 minutes "You not expendable Rambo". There are also some great helicopter stunts, the torture scene is pretty cool, a good bad guy with the Russian and although Rambo never says much when he does look out, this is filled with some great one-liners. And that ending I loved that he just walks off ... "How will you live?" "Day by day." 12/15/15