Rambo: First Blood Two
95 min.
Directed by George P. Cosmatos, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Julia Nickson, Martin Cove.

The Alamo users in Fourth of July weekend with this Stallone exercise in political and violent absurdity. Rambo is sent on a one-man mission to resuce M.I.A.s in Cambodia, but finds out he has been duped by the U.S. government. All patrons will receive a crayon and an original Rambo coloring book images to compete for fun and prizes, culminating on Saturday with a vintage Rambo lunchbox filled with beer. Also showing is the short “Rambo: Part 2.5, aka How Savage Stole Santa Claus”

This article appears in June 25 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.