Review – Rambo: First Blood Part 2

This picture is hard to watch outside its Reagan 80s context. At the time it was something of a cultural phenomenon. Sullen super-soldier Rambo muddles around Southeast Asia looking for POWs the evil government doesn’t actually want him to find while Col. Tweety Bird hops back and forth spouting homilies and threats. So naturally it fit perfectly with the jingoistic conservative paranoia of 1985. Now big chunks of it just look silly, especially given the radical departure this makes from the first movie in the set. It doesn’t even hold up that well when compared to other Vietnam POW rescue movies. And when a production seems cartoonish when compared to the work of Chuck Norris and Patrick Swayze ... See if desperate