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The character of John Rambo become the personification of rightwing machismo, but he didn't start off that way. Much like using the song Born in the USA to rally behind, the Rambo character is a broken man, a dehumanized killing machine, a Frankenstein monster created by the US government.
The franchise suffers from the laws of diminishing returns, but will Allyson find enough there at the beginning to pique her interest, and will this hold up as well as ten-year-old 1982 little Mikey Bobbitt remembers?
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Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim
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