Now this is the Rambo movie I expected "First Blood" to be. When I saw the first installment in the soon to be quadrilodgy, I was pleasantly surprised to find not a mindless action movie, but a rather smart, unique and engaging action movie with a likeable lost hero. The story changes greatly however, with this sequel.
Before I had seen any of the Rambo movies the first thing that came to mind when someone mentioned them was a classic American action hero slaying foes by the hundreds. As I said earlier, this is not the case with the first film. It is however, the case here. "Rambo: First Blood Part II" is possibly the most "classic" American action movie I've ever seen in that it is really over the top, some of the acting is terrible and it delivers a very pro vet message at the end whilst the majority of the film rags on the Vietnam war.
This film is blazingly cheesy, but it's not a bad movie. There are two kinds of action movies. Good ones (Die Hard). Bad ones (The Killer). And then there's the ones that shouldn’t have been made to begin with (Anything Recent). This movie falls under the "bad movie" categories, but that doesn't mean that it's not enjoyable, it's just mindless. 6 out of 10.
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