Happy 30th Rambo II

It has a paltry 6.3 rating on the IMDb.  It has an even lower 29% rating on amen-corner Rotten Tomatoes.  It was nominated and/or awarded for worst picture, worst actor, worst director and worst screenplay.  But those conformists are all wrong.  Rambo: First Blood Part II is one of history’s greatest action sequels and a movie that was never given its due.  Critically it was the whipping boy and easy target.  Few had the balls to tell it like really was – this was exceptional film making and among the very best Stallone appeared in.  Maybe at a stretch, we could put it up there with Aliens and Terminator 2 as far as sequel behemoths go.  Remember, Rambo II came before either of those movies so for a year, at least, it was the second greatest action sequel of all time.  The first a little George Miller movie that came in ’81.

It’s now 30 years since this classic hit the big screen.  Three decades ago today you had the chance to catch this on the big screen.  Happy 30th, Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Rambo is a rare series where none of the four movies is bad.  Let’s hope Rambo V holds the streak.  For all our dissapointment in Sylvester Stallone over the recent Expendables movies, this one will be different, I know it.