


They instead look at it like they do the movie, simply a fantasy. What makes Rambo so disturbing is, this movie made $ 150 million at the box office, and Reagan even referenced it in a speech he gave once, yet no one in the media reports on the topic anymore. In fact, Vietnam did offer a number of live POW's to Reagan his first week of office for $ 4 billion dollars but they rejected this offer and continue to claim there are no more live POW's there, even though they have been tracking them by satellite for decades. government could avoid embarrassment and let the pain of Vietnam die off. Anyway, rather than try rescuing them, they felt that by "liquidating the merchandise" i.e. MIA's/POW's are from this secret war that no one was supposed to know about. Cosmatos and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who also reprises his role as.


fought in Laos in the late sixties and early seventies. Rambo: First Blood Part II is a 1985 American action film directed by George P. In the early eighties, Ronald Reagan tried to establish two rescue missions but stopped them at the last minute because their rescue would bring up a secret war the U.S. Many of them however have been moved over to Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union. It's true that there are hundreds of leftover POW's still alive in Vietnam. Trautman: You're the last of an elite group, don't end it like this.Although done in the way of a mindless action film, this movie is steeped more in reality than you might think. Rambo: For *you*! For me civilian life is nothing! In the field we had a code of honor, you watch my back, I watch yours. Trautman: It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about! Rambo: Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Do you understand me? This mission is over! Look at them out there! Look at them! If you won't end this now, they will kill you. All hell breaks loose when an unjustly imprisoned Rambo escapes and. Now hes searching for peace, but finds instead an over-zealous, small-town sheriff whos spoiling for a fight. An ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam, he was once the perfect killing machine. Trautman: You did everything to make this private war happen. Academy Award-nominee Sylvester Stallone stars as war hero John Rambo.
