an offensively over the top action adventure and first blood part ii seem to catch the mood of the u at the time of it release in the mid 80 and with right wing reaganism and virulent anti red feeling still not finish yet and though the emergence of a certain mikhail gorbachev in the heart of the evil empire in moscow would soon render these type of film redundant while even reagan himself eventually admit this truism . in that sense and we can be most grateful to gorby and not for his disarmament treaty with the u and nor his policy of glasnost and or even his support of democracy be restore to the eastern european country in the former soviet union backyard . no and it the final diminution of foolish and jingoistic and bloated cold war adventure like this . the first rambo film be hardly perfect and though at least be a mildly literate and adequate action thriller with a not too bad storyline . in this sequel and any sense of even the remote conviction be instantly jettison for silly and senseless plotting and incident in which rambo single handedly take on score of brainlessly stereotype vietnamese and russian troop to rescue american pow ten year after the conflict end and with the american on the losing side . perhaps the reason why the film be a huge box office success be to let many american wallow in fantasy while they may have lose the war and but there be still unfinished business at hand and and ludicrous comic strip heroic with a robot like hero kill virtually every red on sight and with as much hardware a possible and fulfil such whimsically far fetched ideal . this could have be entertain on a superman or spiderman level and but sadly everything be play absolutely straight . but that be not to say that there be no humour in the film while sadly it be virtually all of the unintentional kind . the action scene and though technically adequate and never once carry the slight bit of conviction or persuasiveness and because they be always place in the most spectacularly unbelievable of context while namely and our hero rambo be always unscathed ( aside from a few cut and bruise here and there ) despite the ton of explosive and grenade and gunshot and etc . go around him . in between the mayhem and what there be of a script consist of the dull clichés and banality . stallone and who co write the script with james cameron ( a long way from the excite terminator make the previous year ) and deliberately seem to have give the rambo character as little to say in understandable english and and merely come out with moronic grunt and almost a though he have invent his own brand of patois only understandable to himself . maybe his colleague cameron be think of the terminator again with so little communication involve for the lead character . in this sense rambo seem even less of a human than the terminator do . the rest of the cast do little well with good actor like charles napier and richard crenna do their admirable best with the hackneyed dialogue they be give and and steven berkoff ham it up outrageously yet again with another of his russian kgb or red army villain role . berkoff overplaying be mildly enjoyable but not remotely menace . how come that sly manage to survive berkoff electric shock torture to kill yet more of those red commie scumbags . well and credibility be never this film strong point . it be a work of fantasy comparable with the wizard of oz . at least that be mean to be a fantasy and and an immortal classic it turn out to be . this be only a classic of the most dismal and and indeed offensive and kind . and a for sly climactic speech . and rather hypocritical after slaughter all those people and eh . by the way and in the same year and he also make rocky iv . rating represent negative .