The sequels to ‘First Blood’ have all been terrible.
Most sequels are worse than the original.
There are a few that are well written and directed that actually carry on the story line. Then you have others where the studios cut corners to milk the cash cow for all its worth.
There are some movies that are instant classics and should not have sequels or be remade. For example “Red Dawn”, and “The Crow” are two of those instant classics IMO that should have never been touched. They ruined The Crow by making that horrid sequel The Crow - City of Angels and the five other progressively wretched sequels. Now they’re working on remaking the original. Then there is Red Dawn. The original featured Russians, Cubans, and Sandinistas invading us which was a very plausible story line. In the remake they got rid of the Russians because they didn’t want to get Putin’s red lace panties all in a was, and they wrote out those human cockroaches from south of the border because that’s too close to what’s really going on.