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Nostalgia, nostalgia canaglia...
My ultimate stars and stripes hero was Rambo, long contested with Indiana Jones.
I got to know the saga precisely with this film, one of the most exaggerated, American, and flashy films ever, President Reagan was already using Rocky and Rambo for his crappy propaganda, those characters had become so famous.
But memories should give way to objectivity. After all, how is this film? Good? More or less, yes. A colossal piece of crap? That too. Something for free-to-air TV? Certainly, they butcher it on TV at least 4-5 times a year. A profound film? Not at all, but at least is it entertaining? Absolutely!
The story picks up where the first film ended. Rambo is serving his sentence with hard labor but is released by Colonel Trautman to have him return to Vietnam for a mission that will free him from his sentence: taking photographic evidence to prove that American prisoners (and if they were Bulgarians you would leave them there?) remain inside some enemy military camps. Once he arrives, he is aided by a Vietnamese assistant and, breaking the rules, he attempts to rescue a prisoner. However, he is discovered and tries to return to the rescue helicopter as soon as possible. However, the real plan was not to prove that there were hostages still alive, but the exact opposite in order not to pay any ransom. For this reason, Rambo is abandoned by the helicopter, imprisoned by the enemies, and tortured by the Russian allies (because they are all bad, right?) but Rambo escapes, kills everyone,
THE END.
This film should not be taken seriously at all. The plot seen and reviewed, the crappy stereotypes of every communist ethnicity, the flashiness of the final part (where Rambo kills everything that moves and fires a bazooka shot from the broken helicopter glass...), Stallone is perpetually pissed off and the direction is flat.
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