Rambo: First Blood Part II

“If you accept that Rambo is not the same kind of movie as First Blood and watch it on its own merits, it’s a badass action movie.”

Tom Breihan, The A.V. Club · 83

“In short, Rambo is very good at what it does, but what it does isn't always that good. [22 May 1985, p.1C]”

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune · 75

“The direction is dynamic, the cutting has verve. To confess, Rambo: First Blood Part II is unexpectedly taut and exciting, despite its sermonizing and predictable conclusion, assuming Stallone is accepted as that impossible creation, the one-man army. [23 May 1985]”

Salem Alaton, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 75

“It may be a dishonest, xenophobic, exploitative act of historical revisionism, but it's effective, and Jack Cardiff's cinematography lends Rambo's comic-book adventures an epic sweep.”

Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club · 60

“What makes Stallone a figure to be reckoned with is that although these films can be looked at as sledgehammer mindlessness, they contain not only action, but a mystique of action. For all the blood and thunder, there's a strange stillness at the heart of Stallone. [27 May 1985, p.74]”

Jack Kroll, Newsweek · 60