Editing Rambo: First Blood Part II (section)

=== Critical response ===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of {{Rotten Tomatoes data|score}} based on {{Rotten Tomatoes data|count}} reviews. The site's consensus is "''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' offers enough mayhem to satisfy genre fans, but remains a regressive sequel that turns its once-compelling protagonist into just another muscled action berserker."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rambo_first_blood_part_ii |title=Rambo: First Blood Part II |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=August 24, 2022 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]] the film has a weighted average score of 47 out of 100 based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title=Rambo: First Blood Part II |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rambo-first-blood-part-ii |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 }}</ref>

[[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the film "almost as opportunistic as the [[Member of Congress|Congressman]] it pretends to abhor. In spite of everything it says, it's much less interested in the M.I.A. question than it is in finding a topical frame for the kind of action-adventure film in which Mr. Stallone — his torso and his vacant stare — can do what his fans like best. That is, fight, outwit and kill, usually all by himself, dozens of far-better armed but lesser mortals."<ref>Canby, Vincent (May 26, 1985). [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/26/movies/film-view-rambo-delivers-a-revenge-fantasy.html "'Rambo' Delivers A Revenge Fantasy".] ''[[The New York Times]]''. H11.</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote, "The charade on the screen, which is not pulled off, is to accept that the underdog Rambo character, albeit with the machine-gun wielding help of an attractive Vietnamese girl, can waste hordes of [[Viet Cong]] and [[Soviet Army|Red Army]] contingents en route to hauling POWs to a Thai air base in a smoking Russian chopper with only a facial scar (from a branding iron-knifepoint) marring his tough figure. You never even see him eating in this fantasy, as if his body feeds on itself."<ref>"Film Reviews: Rambo: First Blood Part II". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. May 22, 1985. 14.</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' gave the film three stars out of four and called it "very good at what it does, but what it does isn't always that good", referring to the depiction of the enemy as going "back to the image of the [[Yellow Peril]], to the notion that white is right and other colors are wrong."<ref>Siskel, Gene (May 22, 1985). "'Rambo': Cinematic soldiering whitewashes Vietnam". ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. Section 5, p. 1, 3.</ref> Michael Wilmington of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote, "If a character can seemingly do anything, it's hard to feel tension or concern about his fate. (At least [[Superman]] had [[kryptonite]].) We are left with nothing but detached aesthetic appreciation: watching Rambo race through several million dollars worth of explosions and aerial attacks, coruscant fireballs billowing everywhere and bodies flying hither and yon. Except for anyone irretrievably into violent power fantasies, this will probably soon pall."<ref>Wilmington, Michael (May 22, 1985). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-22-ca-16965-story.html "Why a 'Rambo II'? For Muddiest of Reasons".] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Part VI, p. 1, 6.</ref> [[Pauline Kael]] commented in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', "The director, George P. Costmatos, gives this near-psychotic material—a mixture of [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] iconography and ''[[Soldier of Fortune (magazine)|Soldier of Fortune]]'' pulp—a veneer of professionalism, but the looniness is always there."<ref>Kael, Pauline (June 17, 1985). "The Current Cinema". ''[[The New Yorker]]''. 117.</ref> [[Paul Attanasio]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote, "At best, ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' is a crudely effective right-wing rabble-rouser, the artistic equivalent of carpet bombing—you don't know whether to cheer or run for cover. At worst, it's a tribute to Sylvester Stallone, by Sylvester Stallone, starring Sylvester Stallone."<ref>Attansasio, Paul (May 22, 1985). "'Rambo': New Blood, Old Moves". ''[[The Washington Post]]''. F1.</ref>

The film is listed in [[Golden Raspberry Award]] founder [[John J. B. Wilson|John Wilson]]'s book ''[[The Official Razzie Movie Guide]]'' as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=John|title=The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst |year=2005|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|isbn=0-446-69334-0}}</ref>