Please tell me the sentiment of the following review: By rights, there should never have been a "First Blood Part II". The original script for "First Blood" had John Rambo committing suicide at the end of the film, but this was changed to allow him to live, not because the producers wanted to make a sequel but because test audiences found the original ending too depressing. Nevertheless, someone obviously thought that the character was too good to waste, because he ended up as the hero of two more films in the eighties, plus the recently released fourth instalment.

The official title of this film was "Rambo: First Blood Part II", but it is more commonly known simply as "Rambo". It starts with the title character in jail, where he is presumably expiating the crimes he committed in "First Blood", although this is never made too explicit. He is removed from prison by his former commanding officer, Colonel Trautman, for a secret mission. Rambo is to return to Vietnam to investigate reports that American POWs are still being held captive by the Communist regime. He is under strict instructions not to attempt to rescue any prisoners or to engage the enemy; his is to be simply a fact-finding mission.

What Rambo does not realise is that he is being set up, not by Trautman, who is portrayed as brave, honourable and incorruptible, but by the organiser of the mission, a military bureaucrat named Murdock. Murdock intends that the mission will prove that there are no American prisoners in Vietnam, partly because that will improve relationships between the American and Vietnamese governments, partly because it will make his own life easier. Unfortunately for Murdock, Rambo discovers that not only are Americans still being held prisoner, they are also being kept in hellish conditions. Of course, he is far too much of a hero to leave them to their fate, and tries to rescue them. The rest of the film is more or less one long battle between Rambo and a few allies (including a beautiful Vietnamese girl) and the evil commie soldiers and their Russian allies. Most of the evil commies, of course, end up dead, although I was surprised to learn from your "trivia" section that the total death toll was as low as 67. At times it seemed as though Rambo was trying to wipe out the entire Vietnamese army.

The tone of this film is very different from the first. In "First Blood" Rambo was unquestionably a criminal, even though his responsibility for his crimes was lessened by severe provocation and by his mental instability. In "Rambo" he is a bona fide all-American hero. A few years earlier the director, George Pan Cosmatos, had made "The Cassandra Crossing", a biased piece of left-wing anti-American propaganda. Cosmatos, however, was nothing if not versatile, and "Rambo" proves that he could also turn his hand to biased right-wing pro-American propaganda. The one thing the two films have in common is that both are laughably bad.

"First Blood" had its faults, but it also had its virtues. Its stance, that the anti-war movement was partly to blame for the problems faced by Vietnam vets in readjusting to civilian life, was a controversial one, but at least the film was trying to make a statement about war, social attitudes to war, and the roots of violence in society. "Rambo", by contrast, has very few virtues, except that the action sequences are well enough done to please those who like that sort of thing. It is essentially a sort of jingoistic revenge fantasy for those Americans who were still sore about the Vietnam war. Rambo re-fights the war single-handed, and this time the right side wins. Take that, Charlie Cong! 

By this point, no doubt, the film's admirers (and there seem to be plenty- more than 2,000 voters have already given it ten stars) will have concluded that I am a liberal commie-loving pinko. Far from it- in fact, I have always despised Communism as a pernicious ideology. What I dislike about the film is not its politics but its lack of subtlety and its suggestion that the solution to all problems, including ideological disputes, is to go in with all guns blazing and to try and kill as many people as possible. It makes no attempt to understand the political complexities of South-East Asia or why not everyone in the region was pro-American. For all its anti-Communism, the film is the sort of moronic sledgehammer propaganda that the Communists were very good at churning out themselves- except that they attributed all the world's problems to Capitalism, or Imperialism, or Revisionism, or whatever other ism they had taken a dislike to. Compared to "Rambo", "The Green Berets" was a masterly piece of political analysis. 3/10
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Snälla berätta för mig hur följande översyn: Enligt rättigheter, det skulle aldrig ha funnits en "första blod del II". Originalmanuset till "First Blood" hade John Rambo begått självmord i slutet av filmen, men detta ändrades för att låta honom leva, inte för att producenterna ville göra en uppföljare utan för att testpubliken tyckte att det ursprungliga slutet var för deprimerande. Trots det tyckte någon uppenbarligen att karaktären var för bra för att slösa bort, eftersom han slutade som hjälten i ytterligare två filmer på åttiotalet, plus den nyligen släppta fjärde delen. Den officiella titeln på denna film var "Rambo: First Blood Part II", men den är mer allmänt känd helt enkelt som "Rambo". Det börjar med titelkaraktären i fängelset, där han antagligen försonar de brott han begått i "First Blood", även om detta aldrig görs alltför explicit. Han avlägsnas från fängelset av sin tidigare befälhavare, överste Trautman, för ett hemligt uppdrag. Rambo ska återvända till Vietnam för att undersöka rapporter om att amerikanska krigsfångar fortfarande hålls fångna av kommunistregimen. Han får stränga instruktioner om att inte försöka rädda några fångar eller att angripa fienden; han ska helt enkelt vara ett faktainsamlingsuppdrag. Vad Rambo inte inser är att han sätts upp, inte av Trautman, som framställs som modig, hedervärd och oförgänglig, utan av arrangören av uppdraget, en militärbyråkrat vid namn Murdock. Murdock avser att uppdraget ska bevisa att det inte finns några amerikanska fångar i Vietnam, delvis för att det kommer att förbättra relationerna mellan de amerikanska och vietnamesiska regeringarna, delvis för att det kommer att göra hans eget liv lättare. Tyvärr för Murdock upptäcker Rambo att inte bara amerikaner fortfarande hålls fångna, de hålls också under helvetiska förhållanden. Naturligtvis är han alldeles för mycket av en hjälte för att lämna dem åt sitt öde, och försöker rädda dem. Resten av filmen är mer eller mindre en lång strid mellan Rambo och några allierade (bland annat en vacker vietnamesisk flicka) och de onda kommunistsoldaterna och deras ryska allierade. De flesta av de onda kommunisterna dör naturligtvis, även om jag blev förvånad när jag fick veta av er "trivia"-sektion att den totala dödssiffran var så låg som 67. Ibland verkade det som om Rambo försökte utplåna hela den vietnamesiska armén. Tonen i denna film skiljer sig mycket från den första. I "First Blood" var Rambo otvivelaktigt en brottsling, trots att hans ansvar för hans brott minskades av svår provokation och av hans mentala instabilitet. I "Rambo" är han en äkta amerikansk hjälte. Några år tidigare hade regissören, George Pan Cosmatos, gjort "The Cassandra Crossing", ett partiskt stycke vänsterfientlig antiamerikansk propaganda. Kosmatos var dock inget om inte mångsidigt, och "Rambo" bevisar att han också kunde vända handen till partisk högerproffsig amerikansk propaganda. Det enda de två filmerna har gemensamt är att båda är skrattretande dåliga. "First Blood" hade sina fel, men den hade också sina dygder. Dess inställning, att antikrigsrörelsen delvis var att skylla på de problem som Vietnamveteranerna ställdes inför i att återanpassa sig till det civila livet, var kontroversiell, men filmen försökte åtminstone göra ett uttalande om krig, sociala attityder till krig, och rötterna till våldet i samhället. "Rambo", däremot, har väldigt få dygder, förutom att handlingssekvenserna är tillräckligt bra gjorda för att behaga dem som gillar den sortens saker. Det är i huvudsak en slags jingoistisk hämndfantasi för de amerikaner som fortfarande var sura över Vietnamkriget. Rambo kämpar om kriget på egen hand, och den här gången vinner högersidan. Här har du, Charlie Cong! Vid denna punkt, utan tvekan, filmens beundrare (och det verkar finnas gott om- mer än 2000 väljare har redan gett det tio stjärnor) kommer att ha dragit slutsatsen att jag är en liberal kommunistälskande pinko. Långt därifrån har jag i själva verket alltid föraktat kommunismen som en fördärvlig ideologi. Vad jag ogillar med filmen är inte dess politik utan dess brist på subtilitet och dess förslag att lösningen på alla problem, inklusive ideologiska dispyter, är att gå in med alla vapen flammande och att försöka döda så många människor som möjligt. Den försöker inte förstå Sydostasiens politiska komplexitet eller varför inte alla i regionen var proamerikaner. Filmen är trots all sin antikommunism den typ av idiotisk släggapropaganda som kommunisterna var mycket bra på att spotta ut sig själva- förutom att de tillskrev kapitalismen, imperialismen eller revisionismen alla världens problem, eller vilken annan ism de än hade tagit illa upp. Jämfört med "Rambo" var "De gröna baskrarna" ett mästerligt stycke politisk analys. 3/10 ALTERNATIV: - negativ - positiv
Please tell me how the following review: Under rights, there would never have been a "first blood Part II". The original script for "First Blood" had John Rambo committed suicide at the end of the film, but this was changed to allow him to live, not because producers wanted to make a sequel but because the test audience thought the original ending was too depressing. Nevertheless, someone obviously thought the character was too good to waste, because he ended up as the hero in two more films in the eighties, plus the recently released fourth installment. The official title of this film was "Rambo: First Blood Part II", but it is more commonly known simply as "Rambo". It begins with the title character in prison, where he probably reconciles the crimes he committed in "First Blood", although this is never done too explicitly. He is removed from prison by his former commander, Colonel Trautman, for a secret mission. Rambo is to return to Vietnam to investigate reports that American prisoners of war are still being held by the Communist regime. He is given strict instructions not to try to save any prisoners or to attack the enemy; he should simply be a fact-finding mission. What Rambo does not realize is that he is set up, not by Trautman, who is portrayed as brave, honorable and incorruptible, but by the organizer of the mission, a military bureaucrat named Murdock. Murdock intends the mission to prove that there are no American prisoners in Vietnam, in part because it will improve relations between the American and Vietnamese governments, in part because it will make his own life easier. Unfortunately for Murdock, Rambo discovers that not only Americans are still being held captive, they are also being held under hellish conditions. Of course, he is far too much of a hero to leave them to his fate, and tries to save them. The rest of the film is more or less a long battle between Rambo and some allies (including a beautiful Vietnamese girl) and the evil communist soldiers and their Russian allies. Of course, most of the evil Communists die, although I was surprised to learn from your "trivia" section that the total death toll was as low as 67. Sometimes it seemed as if Rambo was trying to wipe out the entire Vietnamese army. The tone of this film is very different from the first. In "First Blood", Rambo was undoubtedly a criminal, even though his responsibility for his crimes was reduced by severe provocation and by his mental instability. In Rambo, he's a real American hero. A few years earlier, the director, George Pan Cosmatos, had done "The Cassandra Crossing", a biased piece of left-wing anti-American propaganda. However, Kosmatos was nothing if not versatile, and "Rambo" proves that he could also turn his hand to biased right-wing American propaganda. The only thing the two films have in common is that both are laughable bad. First Blood had its faults, but it also had its virtues. Its attitude, that the anti-war movement was partly to blame for the problems faced by Vietnam veterans in re-adapting to civil life, was controversial, but the film at least attempted to make a statement about war, social attitudes to war, and the roots of violence in society. "Rambo", on the other hand, has very few virtues, except that the sequences of actions are well enough done to please those who like that kind of thing. It is essentially a kind of jingois revenge fantasy for those Americans who were still sulking about the Vietnam War. Rambo fights for the war on his own, and this time the right side wins. Here you go, Charlie Cong! At this point, no doubt, the film's admirer (and there seems to be plenty of- more than 2000 voters have already given it ten stars) will have concluded that I am a liberal communist-loving pinko. Far from it, I have, in fact, always despised communism as a depraved ideology. What I dislike about the film is not its policy but its lack of subtlety and its suggestion that the solution to all problems, including ideological disputes, is to go in with all the weapons flaming and to try to kill as many people as possible. It does not try to understand the political complexity of Southeast Asia or why not everyone in the region was pro-American. The film, despite all its anti-communism, is the kind of idiotic sledgehammer propaganda that the Communists were very good at spitting themselves out—except that they attributed to capitalism, imperialism, or revisionism all the problems of the world, or whatever kind ofism they had offended. Compared to "Rambo", "The Green Berets" was a masterful piece of political analysis. 3/10 OPTIONS: - negative - positive
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