Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Director:

George P. Cosmatos

Writers:

Kevin Jarre (story)
Sylvester Stallone (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

22 May 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

What most people call hell, he calls home.

Plot:

John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret...

Plot Keywords:

Python | Shot In The Back | Person On Fire | Gatling Gun | Sweat

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Sylvester Stallone	...	John J. Rambo
Richard Crenna	...	Col. Samuel Trautman
Charles Napier	...	Marshall Murdock
Steven Berkoff	...	Lt. Col. Podovsky
Julia Nickson-Soul	...	Co Bao (as Julia Nickson)
Martin Kove	...	Ericson
George Cheung	...	Capt Vinh (as George Kee Cheung)
Andy Wood	...	Banks
William Ghent	...	Capt. Vinh (POW camp commander)
Voyo Goric	...	Sgt. Yushin (as Vojo Goric)
Dana Lee	...	Gunboat captain
Baoan Coleman	...	Gunboat captain
Steve Williams	...	Lifer
Don Collins	...	POW #1
Christopher Grant	...	POW #2

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Vietnamese

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Certification:

Canada:18A | Finland:K-16 (video release) (uncut) (1998) | Brazil:14 | South Korea:15 | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (video release) (cut) (1989) | West Germany:18 (video rating) (cut) | USA:R (certificate #27558) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Germany:Not Rated (uncut) | Malaysia:18SG | Finland:K-18 (original rating) (cut) (1985) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | France:U | Norway:18 | Singapore:PG | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

Company:

Anabasis N.V.

Trivia:

Co-writer James Cameron claims that he only wrote the first draft of the script and that Sylvester Stallone made many changes to it. When the film was released, the "political" content of the movie was considered controversial. Many felt the Vietnam conflict was "altered" to look and sound heroic. Cameron commented that he only wrote the "action" and that Stallone wrote the "politics".

Goofs:

Continuity: Rambo fires the explosive arrowheads at two trucks on the bridge, yet in the next shot the center truck is seen burning as well.

Quotes:

Rambo: Wolf den this is lone wolf do you read? Prepare for emergency landing, arriving with American POWs.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Amazones (2004)

Soundtrack:

PEACE IN OUR LIFE

Possibly the best Stallone film apart from the Rocky series

Rambo films have been stereo typed as dumb action films blowing up things for nothing. While the first Rambo film can not be stereo typed to that level completely this does fall under the common judgement. However, this film has meaning and thats what I love, a film with meaning. It makes a powerful statement like the first Rambo about the Vietnam war.

Rambo is assigned to go into Vietnamese terotry to take photos of POW camps to see and prove if there is any there. Rambo disobeys orders and goes into rescue the American prisoners causing hell. But what we call hell he calls home.

Touching performance from Stallone as this series and the Rocky series, which are all written by Stallone himself are moving. Sentimental scenes that get to your heart such as his explanation of being expendable and not being cared about by anyone. A wonderful film mixed with all sorts of ideas. Rambo falls in love which as strange as it may seem fits perfect into the film.

The last of the great action films and like all films but this one especially, better than Star Wars.