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This is the film which from some many cliches were born, and this is film that I remember from my dim youth of Rambo. For both these I actually rather enjoyed it and I am glad that I have watched this again after all these years - 7, its a classic worth watching again.
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Rambo's old commander offers Rambo a "get out jail free card" (his exploits in the previous
First Blood landed him jail) to go and find prisoners of war in Korea. He goes and finds some, but with one rescued he is abandoned and not picked up a helicopters. It transpires that another commander who is running the command center and controlling the mission did not want to find any prisoners because of the political problems it would cause. Rambo is caught and tortured by the Koreans and Russians but he has only only thing on his mind, revenge on the commander. That is, of course, after he has escaped and killed all the Russians, Koreans and rescued all the prisoners too. This is done in now stereotypical Rambo mode of massive weapons and endless bullets.
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Things such as the red bandanna, the staggered speech and the gratuitous used of oversized weaponary (like carrying around the helicopter machine gun) are all now cliches copied (Terminator) or parodied (Hot Shots). And you knew that just as soon as he said "yes" to the woman to take back to America, that she was doomed to die. But it was good to see all this - the original before they became common and cliched.
One thing that is particularly obvious compared to the first film
First Blood, is that this is a much bigger budget with bigger and better action - the helicopter fight was impressive from the very start of taking control of it, to destroying the prison camp to the dog fight in the sky. Unlike the first there is no moral message at all; this is pure action and explosive fun.
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