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Rambo
John Rambo and Jack Ryan are two amazing men. They are honest, trustworthy,
heroic, never crack under pressure, and stand for truth, justice, and the American way.
Sylvester Stallone and Harrison Ford do their best attempting to make the audience
believe that men such as Rambo and Ryan actually exist. Try as they might, not even
Stallone or Ford can convince me that men of this caliber actually live. Rambo is able to
not only foil his corrupt, superior American officer trying to sabotage his mission, but
eliminate an entire army of Vietnamese and Russian soldiers, and save a handful of POWs.
Jack Ryan defies the entire government and the largest Colombian drug cartel because he
stands for the "truth." Sorry, but I am not buying it.
An interesting aspect of the two films, Rambo / First Blood Part II (George P.
Cosmatos,
1985) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994) is the differences the two men
display, despite the fact that what they......

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