Synopsis
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneJohn J. Rambo
- Richard CrennaCol. Samuel Trautman
- Charles NapierMarshall Murdock
- Steven BerkoffLt. Col. Podovsky
- Julia NicksonCo Bao
- Martin KoveEricson
- George CheungCapt Vinh
- Andy WoodBanks
- William GhentCapt. Vinh
- Vojislav GovedaricaSgt. Yushin
Recommendations
- 83
The A.V. Club
If you accept that Rambo is not the same kind of movie as First Blood and watch it on its own merits, it’s a badass action movie. - 75
Chicago Tribune
In short, Rambo is very good at what it does, but what it does isn't always that good. [22 May 1985, p.1C] - 60
The A.V. Club
It may be a dishonest, xenophobic, exploitative act of historical revisionism, but it's effective, and Jack Cardiff's cinematography lends Rambo's comic-book adventures an epic sweep. - 50
Time Out
The body count is rising, Sly's pecs are blowing up, and Rambo himself is becoming more of a brand-name than a character, a mascot for masochism and murderous self-assertion. - 50
Variety
The charade on the screen, which is not pulled off, is to accept that the underdog Rambo character, albeit with the help of an attractive machine-gun wielding Vietnamese girl (Julia Nickson), can waste hordes of Vietcong and Red Army contingents enroute to hauling POWs to a Thai air base in a smoking Russian chopper with only a facial scar (from a branding iron-knifepoint) marring his tough figure. - 40
Empire
Here is a film fully xenophobic, abhorrent film, touting guileless version of military honour, but with Jack Cardiff’s furtive camerawork and some excellent editing, it sucks you in to its disturbing heroic sweep. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Rambo is an inane sequel to a fairly good melodrama; another example of an attempt to repeat an earlier success that goes wildly out of scale. - 40
The New York Times
To anyone who doesn't share the camera's adoration, this sort of behavior becomes so comic that Rambo turns into something of a camp classic.
