Also note, first blood part 2 was &quot;Rambo goes back to Vietnam&quot;  -  essentially, the movie tries to explain why John Rambo was so screwed up and angry in the first place.  &quot;I&#x27;m coming for yoooou&quot;  -  really, even rambo 2 wasn&#x27;t a &quot;go USA&quot; film the way that Rambo 3 seemed to be.<p>Rambo 3 is what you want if you want to watch the horse game with a dead goat.   I personally can&#x27;t come up with a theme tying rambo 3 back to the original Vietnam theme, other than the Taliban fucked up the Russians very much like the Vietcong fucked up the Americans.   Maybe that was the point?  a kind of redemption for Rambo, this time he gets to defend the people who just want to be left alone?   Or maybe it was just &quot;hey, we&#x27;ve got an action movie franchise, let&#x27;s make an action movie!&quot; -  and it certainly can be enjoyed on that level, even though it lacks any future governors.<p>(As another tangent, I think it&#x27;s interesting to compare the minimalist &quot;drop me into the jungle with nothing but a knife&quot; vs. &quot;all the gear&quot; views of masculinity that are in constant conflict throughout the series.  I... man, sometimes I wish I was in college and I could spent a week on an essay about 80&#x27;s action movies and what they say about our shifting ideas of manhood.)