by right and there should never have be a first blood part ii . the original script for first blood have john rambo commit suicide at the end of the film and but this be change to allow him to live and not because the producer want to make a sequel but because test audience find the original end too depress . nevertheless and someone obviously think that the character be too good to waste and because he end up a the hero of two more film in the eighty and plus the recently release fourth instalment . the official title of this film be rambo represent first blood part ii and but it be more commonly know simply a rambo . it start with the title character in jail and where he be presumably expiate the crime he commit in first blood and although this be never make too explicit . he be remove from prison by his former commanding officer and colonel trautman and for a secret mission . rambo be to return to vietnam to investigate report that american pow be still be hold captive by the communist regime . he be under strict instruction not to attempt to rescue any prisoner or to engage the enemy while his be to be simply a fact find mission . what rambo do not realise be that he be be set up and not by trautman and who be portray a brave and honourable and incorruptible and but by the organiser of the mission and a military bureaucrat name murdock . murdock intend that the mission will prove that there be no american prisoner in vietnam and partly because that will improve relationship between the american and vietnamese government and partly because it will make his own life easy . unfortunately for murdock and rambo discovers that not only be american still be hold prisoner and they be also be keep in hellish condition . of course and he be far too much of a hero to leave them to their fate and and try to rescue them . the rest of the film be more or less one long battle between rambo and a few ally ( include a beautiful vietnamese girl ) and the evil commie soldier and their russian ally . most of the evil commie and of course and end up dead and although i be surprise to learn from your trivia section that the total death toll be as low a 67. at time it seem a though rambo be try to wipe out the entire vietnamese army . the tone of this film be very different from the first . in first blood rambo be unquestionably a criminal and even though his responsibility for his crime be lessen by severe provocation and by his mental instability . in rambo he be a bona fide all american hero . a few year earlier the director and george pan cosmatos and have make the cassandra crossing and a biased piece of left wing anti american propaganda . cosmatos and however and be nothing if not versatile and and rambo prof that he could also turn his hand to bias right wing pro american propaganda . the one thing the two film have in common be that both be laughably bad . first blood have it fault and but it also have it virtue . it stance and that the anti war movement be partly to blame for the problem face by vietnam vet in readjust to civilian life and be a controversial one and but at least the film be try to make a statement about war and social attitude to war and and the root of violence in society . rambo and by contrast and have very few virtue and except that the action sequence be well enough do to please those who like that sort of thing . it be essentially a sort of jingoistic revenge fantasy for those american who be still sore about the vietnam war . rambo re fight the war single hand and and this time the right side win . take that and charlie cong . by this point and no doubt and the film admirer ( and there seem to be plenty more than 2 and 000 voter have already give it ten star ) will have conclude that i be a liberal commie love pinko . far from it in fact and i have always despise communism a a pernicious ideology . what i dislike about the film be not it politics but it lack of subtlety and it suggestion that the solution to all problem and include ideological dispute and be to go in with all gun blaze and to try and kill a many people a possible . it make no attempt to understand the political complexity of south east asia or why not everyone in the region be pro american . for all it anti communism and the film be the sort of moronic sledgehammer propaganda that the communist be very good at churn out themselves except that they attribute all the world problem to capitalism and or imperialism and or revisionism and or whatever other ism they have take a dislike to . compare to rambo and the green beret be a masterly piece of political analysis . negative .