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I feel it's one of Sly's best films. Up to the day they started filming, Sly was not convinced this movie was going to work for the American movie goer, & it wasn't until he did the scene on day 2 of filming where he meets the wife of one of his war buddies, that he seeks out as the light at the end of the tunnel for him & his past in Vietnam, who unbeknownst to Rambo, had died the summer before. The story told to Rambo, of his war buddies death by his wife, truly inspired Stallone, & he admits he immediately got into character from that point on. Brian Dennehy did a great job in this also, playing a Sheriff in the small town Rambo attempts to migrate through, & in turn arrested for vagrancy in. The Sheriff, a Korean War Veteran himself, is more then miffed about Rambo being a Vietnam Veteran, with all the press that war received, where-as his service to the country was more or less forgotten in the U.S. at the time, & by way of his authority within the town, does his best to run Rambo out. Well, after being arrested & harassed in the police station, from there folks Rambo goes into survival mode. In steps Richard Crenna in the most powerful roll I've ever seen him portray, Colonel Sam Troutman, shinny dress green Army uniform peppered with medals of every kind. He sets the stage for everyone, of Rambo's true background, in the war he can not forget. Reminding the Police of how lucky they were, that they were not all killed the night before, when Rambo escaped the Police station & their subsequent pursuit of him afterwards. Troutman gives them options in bringing Rambo in that wouldn't cause anymore harm, however, these small town cops wish to ignore the Colonel's advise, do things their way. It's that decision alone,that is now going to lead to a lot more death & destruction, & it could have all been avoided if the sheriff would have checked his ego in at the door, & that's Troutmans point in his visit to this almost winter wonderland. It's all evident by the end of the movie, how Big Sam was correct in his assumption about John J Rambo, but it leads to Sly's most powerful scene in the film, his letting out his emotions about his past & present that can not be overlooked, nor should they! I rate this film a 5 out of 5 stars, & happy that I own the trilogy.Read full review
I like the story behind the movie. Here we have a Vietnam war veteran trying to adjust to civilian life, yet comes home to a lot of anti- Vietnam war protesters that doesn’t want to have anything to do with any Vietnam war veterans. My older brother went through the same problem, so, he went back to the Army until he retired because he couldn’t adjust to civilian life.
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This is one of my all time favorite movies for men. There’s just to much to love about it. By far Stallone’s best acting is in the Rambo series. I love the light it brings to how our boys were treated after Vietnam.
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It's a great classic and one of my favorites, the only thing that surprised me was that I just hooked up a surround sound system and I thought that the action in this movie was gonna sound awesome but it sounds pretty much the same as it did without surround sound and it says that it is remastered for 5.1 surround sound, well if it is that's the worst surround sound I've ever heard, other than that it's still a great classic!!!
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I just read the book and just had to see the movie and the price was great so I bought it , also it came at a very timely matter.
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