- Released shortly after the Hungerford massacre in the UK, the BBFC removed just over 1 minute of violence from the cinema version and a total of 3 minutes of both violence and weapon scenes from the 1989 video version. Among the cuts made to the film were heavy edits to the opening stick fight, butts and kicks during fight scenes, electrical torture scenes, and heavy reductions to closeups of knives and bullet wounds. The uncut version has turned up many times on pay TV (Sky and Bravo).
- The South Korean theatrical version was cut by 4 minutes of heavy violent sequences for an 'All' (all audiences) certificate by the Korean Media Board. The film was re-certified '15' uncut in 2000 and it is the current certificate. First Blood (1982) was originally given a '12' certificate, but re-rated '15'. RFB: Part II remained at '15', and the last two remained at '18'.
- German version was initially cut by 25 seconds mostly for plot reasons to secure a FSK-18 rating and also avoid being BPjM indexed (though it still got indexed anyway). A FSK-16 rated version is much more heavily cut by 5 minutes to have all violent scenes shortened. Only in 2011 was the uncut version granted a FSK-18 rating since being deleted from the BPjM index list.
- A new British video version, released in June 2000, restores all the violence previously cut from UK versions, but is still missing a 2 second scene in which a horse fall was achieved using a tripwire.
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