Critic Reviews
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
A thoroughly unpleasant project, quite apart from its creepy populist posturing (Stallone seemed determined to become the Huey Long of the movies).
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Vincent Canby, 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.
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Charles Cassady, Common Sense Media
Sly shoots up Vietnam in glorified '80s actioner.
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Radheyan Simonpillai, AskMen.com
What makes this icon so significant is how wholly he was embraced by the Reagan era. After all, it only seems natural to respond to B-movie action stars when your president was one as well.
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Keith Uhlich, UGO
Rambo's significant beefcake factor is so pronounced in First Blood: Part II that it practically begs to be taken as queer-baiting camp.
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Cast
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Sylvester Stalloneas John Rambo -
Richard Crennaas Trautman -
Charles Napieras Murdock
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Julia Nicksonas Co Bao -
Steven Berkoffas Podovsky -
Martin Koveas Ericson




