...otherwise, why all that stuff about the Vietnam vets, and how badly they were treated by the army and the citizens of the US in First Blood?. If this one isn't political, why not just have some bad-asses kidnap somebody close to Rambo, and then he has to rescue them. No, Rambo has always had a political setting and hence an implicit political message. It may be heavy-handed, or a tad naive, but it is always there.