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*In honor of Friday’s release of The Expendables, we’re taking a week-long look at the action films of Sir Sylvester Stallone – which is to say we’re skipping his comedies. Out of respect.
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Title: Rambo: First Blood Part II](Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) - Movie | Moviefone)
**Setting: **Viet-freaking-Nam.
Our hero: John Rambo (Stallone), who is offered a reprieve from breaking prison rocks (even though he looks pretty damn good doing it) in exchange for infiltrating a Vietnamese camp rumored to have a number of imprisoned American soldiers.
Our villain/s: Vinh (George Cheung), a Vietnamese captain hell-bent on keeping his stash of POWs. Col. Podovsky (Steven Berkoff), a Russian officer who’s happy to torture Rambo and the vets in order to convince the United States not to send in any more one-man armies to rescue their soldiers. Also - and maybe especially - there’s Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier), a D.C. bureaucrat who recruits Rambo for service and then abandons him upon hearing he is successful. He is literally an embodiment of the short-term-memory ingratitude of the American public to Vietnam veterans.Filed under: Action, Fandom, Home Entertainment
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