i do not see much reason to get into this movie in much detail . sylvester stallone be once again john rambo and author and survivor of a season in hell and recruit from prison by his only friend and major richard crenna and to secretly return to vietnam and take photo of the american prisoner believe to be still hold in horrible camp and and return without engage the enemy . fat chance . what if he actually do nothing more than sneak in and take pic and and sneak out . who would come to see the movie . it essentially a celebration of stallone muscle . prepare for his mission and we see his well oil muscle bulge . ( they be oil and bulge throughout . ) there be the ritual strapping on of black leather and ugly gun and and even ugly knife . the black gun be clean and assemble with loud clack and and almost as oiled a stallone muscle . the bow be test and and yes and it have enough poundage to drive a bolt through an enemy forehead . the knife be sharpen with slick snick . stallone and one of his pow be betray by one or two of the suit from washington and cynical politician who and you can bet and be never even in a fist fight in grammar school . no gut and you know . just sit around with their foot on the desk and drink foreign beer . the movie do what it set out to do and but what it set out to do be meretricious . it deliberately cash in on the myth popular in the mid 1980s that there be uncountable number of mias quietly keep in wretched camp by the north vietnamese . the bumper sticker be ubiquitous . ( free our mias . ) why would they keep them . it be never quite reason out but perhaps to turn the pow into a slave labor force in a country that have absolutely no resource other than labor . or maybe for their propaganda value a an instrument to humiliate the united state a propaganda weapon that the vietnamese keep secret from the world . a a captive and rambo be treat in a medieval fashion by the north vietnamese . dip to his neck in pig excrement and then haul out of it by his wrist and his muscle still on display . then and not content with subhuman vietnamese and a russian officer be bring in to play the part of the gestapo officer vee haff vays of make you remember . a high tech type and the russian use psychology and electricity and not just pig dump . rambo return and declare that he intend to drift aimlessly until this country love u as much a we love it and bring up another myth that vet return from vietnam be uniformly spat upon and curse and which be why i guess we elect so many to the congress and appoint others to high echelon position . the last three lose presidential candidate be among that despise group . at least rambo aimless drift leave room open for a sequel and which arrive apace . the action movie with schwarzenegger and willis and others be leaven by wisecrack but rambo be humorless . it march dully through it phantasmal ideological swamp and kill without mercy and barely speaking and barely able to speak . to speak be a sign of weakness .