BLU-RAY R RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD - PART II: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S SET

RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD - PART II: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S SET

Written by TroyAnderson Jul 13th 2010 Hits: 222 Favorites

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THE PLOT THUS FAR

Sylvester Stallone in this explosive Oscar-nominated sequel to First Blood is back as John Rambo, the perfect fighting machine. Rambo's survival skills are tested with a vengeance on a top-secret mission that takes him back to the jungles of Vietnam in search of American POWs.

WHAT WE THOUGHT

Serving a five year plus jail sentence for the trashing of the town in "First Blood", "Rambo" opens with the former Green Beret hammering rocks in the local prison. That doesn't last long as Colonel Sam Trautman, Rambo's former CO in the military, pays him a visit & offering him a sweet deal. Satellite recon had picked up some unexpected movement in the P.O.W. camp that Rambo escaped from in '71. The camp is supposed to be abandoned, but, may still be holding some of Rambo's former P.O.W.'s. Rambo's mission is to sneak into the camp and take pictures & document actions of the camp's activities and report back to base. Trautman & American Forces would step in and invade the camp reclaiming & bringing home the P.O.W.'s. This would also lead to Rambo being reinstated in the special forces and, if the mission is a success, a Presidential Pardon on his prison record, with Rambo walking away a free man.

Rambo reluctantly accepts the challenge, but, upon sneaking into the camp he does indeed find many American Troops still being held hostage beaten, malnutritioned, and one breath away from death. Rambo screws his Kodak moment, taking matters into his own hands. If you've watched "First Blood" you know what happens next. Filmed entirely in Mexico, "Rambo" is a different film than the first, but retains and expands the violence quotient. Stallone exchanged working in weather that was ten to fifteen below zero & wading in water thats 39 degrees farenheit (remember the scene in "First Blood" where the National Guard is out looking for Rambo who was all along hiding amongst the rocks of the river? Yeah, that water was 39 degrees farenheit. Thats cold ass water to be hiding in). Instead, for "Rambo", Sly worked in weather that reached 110 degrees and, in one scene where Rambo is captured by the Viet Cong, is dipped, from the neck down, in pig slop complete with real live leeches (the Russian General uses Rambo's knife to pick one off his chest. Gross).

The helicopter battle at the end of the film was pretty dangerous. The helicopters flew so low, that in one quick shot of the Russian copter flying over one of the huts, the copter takes the roof off! Director George P. Cosmatos left the scene in to show the danger & peril of the battle. The Blu-Ray is a fun release that shows off the film almost twenty five years after the fact. It looks clean with amazing A/V Quality, but moreso is the fact that the creators remember it so fondly. I found a lot of the movie to be laughable, but you couldn't shake how great it was on Blu-Ray. The special features are decent, but they're not cumbersome. I'd recommend a purchase as part of the Blu-Ray boxset

RELEASE DATE: 07/27/2010