In Thailand, John Rambo is living peacefully capturing snakes and transporting people and cargo in an old boat. But when he joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller, to take them up there. When the aid workers are c... aptured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them.
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Since drawing First Blood in 1982, John Rambo, a taciturn, nihilistic Vietnam vet who favors a bow and arrow and knife over modern weaponry (but can pretty much wipe out an entire regiment single-handedly with anything in reach), became the ultimate symbol of action-movie excess. A walking, grunting, monolith with massive, vein-rippled forearms, Sylvester's Stallone's army of one represented a video-game approach to filmmaking long before PlayStations and Xboxes surpassed the multiplex as the pastime of choice for the ADD generation.
Nearly 20 years after fighting the Soviets cheek-by-jowl with the Afghan mujahedin in Rambo III, John returns to the s...
It's hard to imagine who the target audience is for Rambo, Sylvester Stallone's new vanity project.
Young audiences can't possibly be interested in the violent exploits of someone old enough to be collecting Social Security, no matter how ripped he is or how much plastic surgery has molded his face into a permanent scowl. And audiences who saw the three previous Rambo movies in the '80s have no doubt moved on to better and smarter action fare. (Bourne, anyone?) So, who is this movie for, besides Stallone himself?
Stallone wears one expression throughout the 90-plus-minute orgy of explosions, severed limbs and spewing blood. He glares, glowers and d...
DEFINATELY WORTH THE WATCH . typical action fling 3/5 .I am one never to
complain about blood and gore,specially when some one gets their head blown
off with a barret .50 rifle. some parts were over done with the superficial
wounds gushing out blood .I think it was even computer generated.
