I think that if one sets out to do an action movie, just an action movie and nothing else, one must not stick his uneducated nose into politics, racial relations, foreign affairs or anything else that requires half a brain.
If Stallone fought crazy aliens on a far away planet or, say, very very bad and cartoonish villains (Joker, maybe, or Cat Woman, or something), this could be called just an action movie. But enter the evil, evil Russians with inhuman faces, bear-like physique and complete military incompetence (letting themselves being defeated by one, relatively unintellegent human being) and this turns into a propaganda film worthy of Nazi Germany. I don't want to discuss this piece of garbage any further, except for asking one question: If the Russians could so easily be defeated by one John Rambo (the entire blasted army, all of them, right down to private Pupkin, leutenant Popkin and major Ivanenko), why did Jimmy Carter boycott the Olympics?
If Stallone fought crazy aliens on a far away planet or, say, very very bad and cartoonish villains (Joker, maybe, or Cat Woman, or something), this could be called just an action movie. But enter the evil, evil Russians with inhuman faces, bear-like physique and complete military incompetence (letting themselves being defeated by one, relatively unintellegent human being) and this turns into a propaganda film worthy of Nazi Germany. I don't want to discuss this piece of garbage any further, except for asking one question: If the Russians could so easily be defeated by one John Rambo (the entire blasted army, all of them, right down to private Pupkin, leutenant Popkin and major Ivanenko), why did Jimmy Carter boycott the Olympics?
