Rambo - First Blood Part Two (1985)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 92m
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Steven Berkoff
Synopsis:
John Rambo is paroled from the penitentiary to help his old commanding officer obtain photographic evidence of American POWs still held by the Russians(sic) ten years after Vietnam.
Review:
The character of First Blood returns 'home' in a risibly contrived - and ironically warmongering - scenario, incoherently condemning his country for its double standards as he zealously despatches dozens of nefarious 'gooks', who bear uncomfortable resemblance with WW2 Japanese villainy. Introducing a new 'napalm aesthetic' to the action movie, right up to the Van Damme films of the nineties and beyond, this has a lot to answer for. With Jack Cardiff behind the camera and Goldsmith's thumping score filling the ears in Dolby Stereo, however, it probably hasn't been done with as much knuckle-whitening style since.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 92m
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Steven Berkoff
Synopsis:
John Rambo is paroled from the penitentiary to help his old commanding officer obtain photographic evidence of American POWs still held by the Russians(sic) ten years after Vietnam.
Review:
The character of First Blood returns 'home' in a risibly contrived - and ironically warmongering - scenario, incoherently condemning his country for its double standards as he zealously despatches dozens of nefarious 'gooks', who bear uncomfortable resemblance with WW2 Japanese villainy. Introducing a new 'napalm aesthetic' to the action movie, right up to the Van Damme films of the nineties and beyond, this has a lot to answer for. With Jack Cardiff behind the camera and Goldsmith's thumping score filling the ears in Dolby Stereo, however, it probably hasn't been done with as much knuckle-whitening style since.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 92m
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Steven Berkoff
Synopsis:
John Rambo is paroled from the penitentiary to help his old commanding officer obtain photographic evidence of American POWs still held by the Russians(sic) ten years after Vietnam.
Review:
The character of First Blood returns 'home' in a risibly contrived - and ironically warmongering - scenario, incoherently condemning his country for its double standards as he zealously despatches dozens of nefarious 'gooks', who bear uncomfortable resemblance with WW2 Japanese villainy. Introducing a new 'napalm aesthetic' to the action movie, right up to the Van Damme films of the nineties and beyond, this has a lot to answer for. With Jack Cardiff behind the camera and Goldsmith's thumping score filling the ears in Dolby Stereo, however, it probably hasn't been done with as much knuckle-whitening style since.