We need more realistic war films like this

Rambo: First Blood Part II depicts a rescue mission of American POWS still in Vietnam in 1985. The film delivers a look inside what happens to Americans left behind in Vietnam and forced to live animals in a cage.

All the actors play their roles very carefully and it pays off especially when we see each of them in peril. With such a connection made in the first slow building hour, we are then dropped into a 60 minute, pulse pounding tense shootout between Rambo, the Vietcong and the Soviet Union.

Rambo never even comes close to sugar coating the brutal nature of war. The film is filled with hard edged moments of brutality, gore and truly gut wrenching scenes. It is by far one of the most heart racing moments in recent cinema and considering the end results, it is very heart wrenching that by the end of it, you feel as if the wind has been knocked out of you.

By the end of the film, Rambo makes you really appreciate the freedom you have, a feat that has not yet been achieved in film up until now. This film is as good as Black Hawk Down, The Longest Day, the Dirty Dozen and Saving Private Ryan, it is absolutely worth seeing on the big screen and I highly recommend it.