Cinema: Danger: Live Moral Issues Rambo: First Blood Part II

"Sir, do we get to win this time?"

The man asking that pregnant, poignant question is none other than John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), the Viet Nam vet who was last seen in First Blood wiping out a small Western town whose citizens did not agree with his views on the historical necessity and moral value of the U.S.'s former involvement in Southeast Asia. Since that gory, not to say psychopathic, episode, Rambo has been keeping fit, courtesy of the penal system, by making little ones out of big ones in a rock quarry. But now at the gate stands his sometime...

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