Rambo

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with real-life footage of Burma soldiers committing genocide and other atrocities, and shows how they force young boys into becoming soldiers. Next, we see Lt. Aye (Aung Aay Noi) and a bunch of Burmese soldiers forcing civilians out of a truck. One soldier walks out to a rice field and throws an explosive into a swamp. He then throws a bunch of other explosives into the water while the civilians have their backs turned and their money taken. The soldiers order the civilians to go across the swamp. As they do, one person is blown up by one of the explosives. The others refuse to go on, and are shot to death by the soldiers.During the opening credits, we see John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) catching snakes in a jungle in Thailand. He also uses a bow-and-arrow to shoot a fish and then gives it to some fisherman passing by in their boat. Rambo and his helpers go to a snake village, where the owner pays Rambo for the snakes he captured. His only complaint though is for Rambo to get more pythons, since he keeps on bringing back cobras.While Rambo puts the snakes away, Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) approaches him and introduces himself. Michael is a missionary, and he was told that Rambo is the boatman who knows the river best. Rambo says that its true, and Michael wants to hire him to bring him and his group to Burma. Rambo says that its a war zone, but Michael says that this is his fifth time going in and they are all aware of the dangers involved. Rambo asks him if they're bringing any weapons with them. Michael says no, and Rambo tells him that they're not going to change anything. Sarah (Julie Benz), one of the missionaries, tells Michael that shell try to persuade him. Sarah tries her best to convince Rambo to transport them to Burma, but he still refuses. He tells her to go home instead.Back in Burma, Lt. Aye's soldiers raid a village and take all the children hostage. The women cry and beg for their loved ones. Aye tells them that the boys will now be soldiers for the Burmese Army. He also threatens them that if any of the women try to get help from the rebels, they'll come back and cut out their tongues.In Thailand, Rambo and goes to his boat when he sees Sarah waiting for him. She again pleads with him to transport them to Burma, and he still refuses. She says that trying to save a life wont waste his, and he must still believe in something. After Sarah leaves, Rambo thinks about it and then changes his mind.The next day, Rambo and the missionaries travel down the river in his boat. Sarah thanks Rambo again for helping them, and then asks him what his name is. He says John, and she asks him where he's from. Rambo says that he's from Arizona, and he hasn't been back since he was drafted and served in the Vietnam War back in 1967. Sarah asks him if he's at least a little curious as to how his home has changed, but he tells her that he doesn't have a reason to be curious. He also mentions that his father might still be alive back home. Before Sarah returns to her seat, Rambo says that they shouldn't go on, and that they can turn back whenever she wants.At night, while the missionaries sleep, Rambo orders his passengers to be silent. Michael asks him what's wrong, and Rambo tells him he sees pirates nearby. He tells everyone to get down and be quiet so they can hopefully pass by unnoticed. They're almost in the clear, but the pirates spot them and open fire at them. Rambo stops the boat and tells everyone to keep their heads down. If they look the pirates in the eyes, they'll be killed. A pirate boat pulls up to them and several men hold everyone at gunpoint. They say that they're trespassing in their territory, and they have to pay them money. Rambo says that he'll pay him whatever they want from the boat, but then the pirates see that Sarah is female. They order Sarah to come with them, and Rambo offers them anything else but her. Tension escalates, and Rambo suddenly pulls a pistol and shoots all the pirates. One pirate is still alive, and so Rambo unloads his last bullets into his head. Michael voices his disapproval over what just happened, and so Rambo grabs him and tells him that if he didn't kill them, they would all be dead and Sarah would've been raped and probably killed as well. Rambo says that they're going to turn back, but Sarah wants them to continue on since they're so close. Rambo eventually agrees to go on, and they arrive in Burma the next day.While the missionaries get out, Michael says that he has to report Rambo for killing the pirates. He also says that they're going to take another way out instead of his boat, and so he doesn't have to wait for them. Sarah gives Rambo a crucifix necklace as a way of saying thank you for what he did. All the missionaries take off and hike to a village. As they do, Rambo travels back and comes across the pirate boat again. He douses it with gasoline and then lights it on fire, allowing it to explode with the dead pirates still on board.The missionaries get to the village, where they are greeted by the locals. One missionary is a dentist, and he inspects everyone's mouths. Another missionary hands out bibles and starts to preach about god while another missionary records him with his video camera. Sarah walks to where Michael is, where hes treating peoples wounds. Sarah looks at the people waiting to be looked at by Michael, who are missing legs and arms.Suddenly, explosions begin to rip through the village. Aye and his soldiers have arrived, and they proceed to slaughter everyone in sight. One missionary gets his legs blown off by an explosion. The unarmed civilians are shot to death. Some soldiers set the people on fire with flamethrowers. Children are brutally shot to death, and a soldier throws a woman's child into a burning hut. During the massacre, the remaining missionaries try to run away, but they are beaten and captured by the soldiers. Aye watches as the village burns and the ground is littered with corpses.Some time passes, and Rambo dreams about what has happened to him in the past. He is woken up by Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard), who calls out his name. Arthur apologizes for coming to him like this, but he wouldn't come if it wasn't important. Arthur is a reverend at the Colorado church where the missionaries are from. Before they left, Michael told him that Rambo was going to transport them to Burma. It's been a week since they were supposed to be back, but they never showed up. Arthur has been in contact with some Karen rebels, and they have a good idea of where they were taken. Rambo believes that they're probably dead, and recommends that Arthur talks to someone at the U.S. embassy in Thailand. He already has, and they won't help him in time. He has hired a bunch of mercenaries, and he wants Rambo to take them to the same spot where he dropped off the missionaries for a rescue mission. Rambo agrees to do it, and forges a large machete for himself.The next day, Rambo transports the mercenaries down the river. They are made up of Diaz (Reynaldo Gallegos), Reese (Jake La Botz), En-Joo (Tim Kang), and School Boy (Matthew Marsden) and are lead by Lewis (Graham McTavish), who constantly complains on how slow they are moving. Reese passes the time by singing, which annoys everyone else. The others pass the time with jokes and the like. Lewis tells Rambo that his boat is "a piece of shit", and he could swim there faster than they are going. Rambo stares him down, but Lewis says that he does not impress him. School Boy introduces himself to Rambo, saying that he got his name in sniper school and he hasn't been able to get rid of it (regardless of how many people he's shot).They eventually get to the spot where Rambo dropped off the missionaries. Lewis is pissed, since they were supposed to get some reinforcements from the rebels, and they only sent two people (one is their guide, the other is a young boy). Also, Reese gets nervous when their guide tells them that they face more than 100 Burmese soldiers. Lewis asks the mercenaries if any of them are carrying explosives. School Boy is the only one, and he's carrying a claymore mine. Rambo docks and grabs some blades, but Lewis tells him to stay with the boat. Rambo says that his men stay with the boat, but Lewis still orders him to stay with the boat, even though School Boy doesn't have a problem with him tagging along.The guide takes the mercenaries through the jungle and they come across an old bomb that was dropped from a World War II bomber, which didn't explode when it hit the ground. After a long hike, they come to the remains of the village. Flies are swarming around the dead bodies, a severed head has been impaled on a stake, and some corpses have been hanged as a warning to the rebels. Everyone is disgusted by the slaughter, and the guide warns them to watch where they step, since there are still mines around, and then sends the boy home to report what has happened.As they walk through the destroyed village, some Burmese soldiers drive out to where they are. The mercenaries hide as the soldiers force another group civilians out of the truck and take their money. A soldier throws some explosives mines into the swamp between them and the mercenaries. The soldiers force the civilians to run across to the other side. Scared, all the civilians dash across to the other side without being killed by the mines. The soldiers order them to run back across to where the truck is, but they are too scared to move. The soldiers try to scare them into running again by firing at them. School Boy wants to fire at them, but Lewis says that if they start shooting, it will attract the other soldiers at the nearby base (which is where the missionaries are). Rambo suddenly appears out of the jungle and shoots all the soldiers using his bow-and-arrow. He hits with deadly precision, and he shoots one soldier through the chin from behind. The last soldier is shot in the leg and in the head, which causes his body to fall in the water, landing on one of the mines and exploding.The mercenaries are astounded at how easily Rambo killed the soldiers. The guide says that he can take them to the base, but Lewis and the others are ready to split. Rambo aims an arrow at Lewis' eye and is held at gunpoint by Reese and En-Joo. Rambo tells Lewis that none of them want to be there, and they can "live for nothing or die for something." School Boy is with Rambo, and soon the others agree to continue on.Back at the base, soldiers throw food at women locked in cages, and Aye inspects the captured missionaries. One of them looks him in the eye, which causes Aye to order one of his men to feed him to the pigs.Later that night, the mercenaries drive to the camp using the truck stolen from the soldiers Rambo killed. The guide is dressed as a soldier and drives them to the gate. It's raining, and once the guard recognizes the truck he lets them enter. School Boy sneaks up on a guard by the gate and knifes him. He then sets up his sniper rifle and waits. Rambo and the mercenaries plan to rescue the missionaries and move out at precisely 1:15 AM. One by one, they each jump out of the truck and sneak around the base. Most of the soldiers are busy in a hut, watching captured women dance and throwing things at them. Rambo finds Michael and another missionary in a cage, with a dead missionary nearby (still being eaten by the pigs). He frees them and tells them to stay put until he comes back. Sarah remains held captive, tied up underneath a hut. The soldier who lives in the hut drinks some alcohol and walks off. At Aye's hut, a soldier brings him a young boy and Aye strokes his hair. He then shuts the door, implying that he has sex with the boy.The soldiers in the main hut get more rowdy and start throwing the dancers off the stage. One Burmese officer takes a woman for himself and runs off to his hut. He roughs her up a bit and she crawls underneath the hut. En-Joo happens to be there, and when the soldier looks underneath he is stabbed to death by En-Joo. Rambo meets up with Reese, and tells him to retrieve Michael and the missionary he freed. Diaz frees some of the caged women and they make their way towards the gate. Rambo eventually finds where Sarah is, but the drunken soldier comes back and takes her upstairs. He throws her on the floor and is about to rape her when Rambo sneaks up behind him and rips his throat out with his bare hands. School Boy kills the guards at the gate with his sniper rifle, which allows the others to escape.It's 1:15 AM, but Rambo and Sarah aren't back yet. Lewis and the others are ready to leave, but School Boy says that they should wait for them. Michael also doesn't want to leave without Sarah, but Lewis throws him down and threatens him with his knife. They all decide to run off and leave Rambo behind.Rambo and Sarah get to the gate, but are held at gunpoint by two soldiers. Rambo jumps on Sarah to shield her from being shot. One soldier is blasted in the chest and goes flying back. The other soldier has his head blown off and his body flies back like a rag doll. Turns out that School Boy stayed behind to wait for them. He tells them that it will be dawn in an hour, and so they take off running into the jungle.When dawn comes, the soldiers find the dead soldiers and sound the alarm. Lt. Aye comes across the corpse of the officer who had his throat ripped out and gets pissed. They all mount up and take off into the jungle with dogs. While the mercenaries and the remaining missionaries run in the jungle, Lewis steps on a mine and his leg is shredded. Also, their guide has run off and ditched them. Michael tells the others to make a stretcher from the bamboo around them, and they carry Lewis out with them.Elsewhere, School Boy hears the dogs the soldiers have and realizes that they are tracking them. Rambo takes his claymore mine and ties a piece of Sarah's shirt around his boot. He then has School Boy fire off a shot and orders them to get to the boat without him. The mercenaries hear the shot and pick up the pace while the soldiers also move faster. Rambo runs by himself through the jungle while the soldiers with the dogs chase after him. Rambo reaches the old WWII bomb and sets up the claymore mine on it. He quickly covers it up and runs off again. The soldiers with the dogs are lead to the mine and bomb. When they inspect it closer, they pull the tripwire, exploding the claymore & the large bomb which kills all the soldiers around it and destroys a good chunk of the jungle. Rambo is knocked off his feet by the blast.School Boy and Sarah almost make it to the boat when they stop suddenly. Sarah asks him what's wrong, and School Boy shows her with his sniper scope. Lewis and the others made it to the boat, but so have Aye and his men. The soldiers brutally beat the mercenaries and missionaries. Aye then personally walks to each one and viciously beats them with bamboo. Lewis calls him a pussy, and so Aye jams the bamboo stick into his leg wound. School Boy also sees somewhere behind him that there's a jeep with a mounted .50 caliber machine gun in the back. The soldiers line up everyone and prepare to kill them. School Boy says that there's nothing they can do. Slowly, Rambo appears behind the soldier using the mounted machine gun and decapitates him with his blade. He then grabs the heavy machine gun and blasts the soldier in the front seat, splattering his body everywhere. Rambo then proceeds to open fire on the other soldiers, graphically blasting them in half and sending their body parts flying in the air. Lewis and the others fight back and kill off the soldiers around them. More Burmese soldiers come, but Rambo continues to mow them down into nothing.The guide comes back with Karen rebel soldiers, and they partake in the huge climatic battle. Aye calls in support from an army gunboat, which fires upon the rebel soldiers. During the carnage, Diaz is set on fire by a flamethrower and Aye kills a missionary before running off. Lewis kills a soldier that was about to throw a grenade. Unfortunately, this causes the grenade to fall near En-Joo, and the explosion kills him. Lewis is shot in the shoulder by a soldier, but Michael tackles the soldier and beats him to death with a rock. Rambo is shot through the shoulder by one of the soldiers on the gunboat and screams in pain. He sees another truck full of Burmese soldiers coming straight for him, and so Rambo annihilates the soldiers by firing at them with his huge machine gun. He then fires upon the ship, causing one guy's head to explode, and the guide blows it up with an RPG launcher.Aye runs off by himself into the jungle, but is suddenly stabbed through the abdomen by Rambo with his blade. Rambo slices the man's abdomen open and kicks his body down a hill. Rambo stands on top of the hill, looking down upon the survivors of the battle. Sarah looks around for Michael, and is relieved to find him alive. Lewis is still alive, as is School Boy, but Reese's corpse is seen nearby. Michael waves to Rambo as he stands by himself and nurses his shoulder wound.Next, we see Rambo back in the USA walking down a highway, wearing his green army jacket and carrying a bundle over his shoulder. Rambo makes his way to a mailbox which has "R. Rambo" stenciled on it. The film ends with him looking back at the paved road from which he came, and then finally walking back to his home along a dirt road towards the Rambo farm.

Tags: murder, violence, cult, flashback, good versus evil, action, sadist

Review:
I know there is a lot of people who hate this film and prefer Rambo III over this film and think it is not a good movie.
This is a bad-ass kick-ass film!Sylvester Stallone portrayed and acted well his famous character and so did Graham McTavish as Lewis a mercenary, Matthew Marsden as School Boy, Reynaldo Gallegos as Diaz and Julie Benz as Sarah I like these characters and they did their acting well done.
Rambo is without question a sick action movie and Stallone has proved himself again as an intense actor and as a solid director.
John Rambo in this movie is an aging but potent killing machine that for the first time since First Blood accomplishes his mission in a very believable manner.
The downfall of Rambo you could say is its small concern for character drama, indeed the scenes looking at the female lead and the mercenary group are pretty poorly acted (though this allows the scenes to focus on Stallone's disregard for their antics, it can get annoying to sit through).The mercenary group's character were so over the top in acting however it came off like farce to me which was actually really entertaining, seeing their macho lines fall dead in the air, Stallone giving them no respect.The battles were glorious even if the film has flaws, but it focuses on the battle as it should, and achieves glorious cinematic victory.
But John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries (Graham McTavish, Matthew Mardsen) to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers (Julie Benz,Paul Schulze) who were abducted by the ruthless local infantry who carries out a brutal massacre .
Rambo appears threatening , lurking and harassing to his enemies pursuers escaping the innumerable risks and dangers .From the beginning to the end the comic-book action-packed and extreme violence is continued and it's fast movement ; for that reason the picture is pretty amusing ; furthermore contains lots of explosions and some of the best action scenes ever made , including an impressive machine-gun attack .
This nail-biting film is well played , produced and stunningly directed by the great Silvester Stallone .The motion picture is preceded by the original ¨First blood¨ by Ted Kotcheff with Richard Crenna , David Caruso and Brian Dennehy, in which Rambo is falsely accused as vagrant and wrongfully imprisoned and he pulls off the break-out ; Rambo II by George Pan Cosmatos with Martin Kove, Steven Berkoff and Julia Nickson, in which he's forced to go Cambodia in search of American POWs , and followed by ¨Rambo III¨ with Kurtwood Smith and Spiros Focas and of course Richard Crenna , in which Rambo against the Russians who control a particular sector of Afghanistan and he goes behind Russian-dominated enemy lines too rescue his former coroner from jail .
Just like Rocky Balboa, John Rambo uses the formula of the first movie mixed with this of the forth!Monosylabic dialogues from Rambo meet the political messages of the activists, The violent reaction of Rambo towards the brutal soldiers is justified by his ethical code with a deeper meaning that oppresion and injustice generates strong reaction!
Take the first 20 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" - with soldiers limbs being shot off at the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach, add some magnificent jungle scenery and action a la "Tears Of The Sun, and put it all in " Blackhawk Down" mode with gunfire dominating the film....and you have the latest Rambo movie.Hey, I knew it was going to be a tough, adventure story but this was a shock.
(The last dozen minutes are ending credits.) Man, this is almost non-stop action and suspense/ Yeah, a bunch of it is overdone but overall, it still was an entertaining movie.I know it sounds like some dumb Texas Chainsaw Massacre-type thing, but it wasn't despite the mayhem.
I liked Stallone's comeback in the recent "Rocky Balboa" better, but this was still an entertaining flick.The middle-aged John Rambo was more realistic than the male missionary, "Michael Burnett," who was a bit obnoxious for who he was playing.
It's all in your face, not as exploitation, but simply illustrating what it really means to rain lead upon a human being.Let's not kid ourselves, this isn't the film to end war, and in the end, it's a kick-ass action movie.
John has to go back into action to save their lives and bring them back home safely.Rambo is seriously the best film that I have seen so far in 2008, the only thing that was disturbing to me is that the civil war is not far from the truth at all and how brutal it was, but it was nice to have a good guy to root for and have hope that some people can regain their faith in the goodness in people.
She says, "When you're trying to save a life, you're not wasting yours." I suppose that if there is a theme underlying all the extreme violence and carnage of this story, it is this -- "that it is better to die fighting for something, than to live fighting for nothing." When the peace mission goes horribly wrong and a village is massacred, "Rambo" and a team of mercenaries are called upon to go in and rescue Sarah and her colleagues.
I was never a fan of the first Rambo movie (First Blood) ,but still,I think it's a good film.Then,the other movies about Rambo were pathetic and the character became on a parody of himself.Now,director and actor Sylvester Stallone resurrects Rambo after twenty years.I honestly did not have big expectations for this movie but the final result really surprised me.The movie is not excellent but it's very entertaining and intense.One of the fails I found on this movie is that the combination of social message with violence is a little bit unstable.The other fails are minor.But,still with that,Rambo enormously entertained me and it did not bore me even one second.Stallone does not show glamorized violence.He shows very realistic and intense violence and I really appreciated that.My expectations for Rambo were very low and the film totally surpassed them.Yes,the movie has fails but it brought me a very entertaining and intense time..
I like a good action movie as much as the next man, but this is not entertainment  this is pornography of violence that trivializes and ultimately denigrates the real tragedy of Myanmar.
I see comments about the violence and gore being totally unjustified in this movie well to fight violence you need a greater violence and one which gives them just that.But if you think the violence is there just because it has to be well your wrong it actually needs to be as this movie is about a real live situation that is happening right now in Burma and with the junta regime.What they are doing to the villagers and rebels of this country is barbaric well it's genocide and this movie captures all that is happening in that country.I won't go into saying much about the movie except to say be prepared for some realistic action and battle scenes(Very gory) and scenes of torture..
There are any number of things that are interesting about "Rambo," the fourth film in which muscle-man Slyvester Stallone (who stars, co-wrote, produced, and directed the film) plays the ex-Green Beret/Vietnam vet/human killing machine John Rambo, the best of which is seeing Stallone in action, in an action film that remembers the good old days of the bang-bang-bang-shoot-'em-up without a conscience.To get this out of the way, "Rambo" is Stallone's best turn as the eponymous character since the original "First Blood" (1982).
It also goes without saying that "Rambo" is probably the bloodiest "R"-rated action film to date - disembowelment, stabbings, shootings, exploding bodies, babies thrown into the path of torches, you get the point.As the character who first saw life in the novel "First Blood" by author David Morrell, Stallone's John Rambo is now away from the world as we know it, in Thailand, catching live cobras for entertainment at snake-wrangling shows.
He went before the MPAA and told them point-blank that this is what really goes on in Burma, which saw a failed pro-democracy uprising against the government there last year (a nice taste of current events, by the way)."Rambo" is a solid and brutal exercise that returns triumphantly to the days when action movies just didn't give a damn.
It is during the rescue mission that Rambo throws off his life of quiet solitude and decides to open up one big can of whup ass on as many of the Burmese army as he can find in his sights, because, you know, that is what he is good at.The character of Rambo began cinematic life in First Blood, an action film adapted from a novel by David Morell with a message concerning the treatment of Vietnam vets by the general U.S. population that reacted badly to an unpopular war.
It is uncertain whether the decision to set Rambo in Burma is because Sylvester Stallone has a particular interest in that part of the world, was trying to make sure it wasn't set in the box-office poison that is the Middle East, or if the script has just been kicking around that long that that was the best political conflict he could find at the time.
I suppose it could be a message on the naiveté of people who just can't realize how bad the world really is until they get a taste of it, but it is hard to tell.One thing about Rambo is certain: if you don't like violence, you had best skip this movie.
With all of the carnage and cheapening of life that happens daily on our planet it does seem fitting that Rambo would retreat to a quiet corner until mankind needs his ruthless efficiency for killing again.Stallone looks great for his age and this, his seventh film as director, is certainly his most hardcore.
It's like Trautman, Rambo's only real friend/father figure, is still trying to give him guidance from the next world.It could have been longer, but legend has it that Stallone has a director's cut in the works for DVD and it's surely a great night at the movies.
Its as if Stallone saw the recent crop of safe Hollywood PG-13 action films and said to the audience, "this is what violence really looks like".
If I had a gripe at all its that I wanted it to go on a bit longer, but I'm an unapologetic Rambo fan.As a fan of Stallone's and of hardcore action films, I can't thank Sly enough for having the cojones to bring John Rambo back to the screen.
But wanting to add a new layer to the "Rambo" movies, was an okay change of pace for director Sylvester Stallone (also starring in this 2008 movie).In this 2008 movie the story takes place in war-torn Burma.
they are 'bad' left wingers, and the anti-logic of good/bad, left/right makes saints out of the crips who also battle the local bloods, just like in mid-20th century Europe, when the Totalitarian Nazi Crips battled the local Totalitarian Commie Bloods for local dominance...all while the polite social democrat enablers who helped foster the local tribal free-for-some stood on the sidelines after inviting the tribal mayhem and then got brushed aside by the inevitable meateaters.Burma has been trying to make the Khmer Rouge look like cub scouts, and an uneasy liberal west has wanted no part of shining a light on what is going on there.Stallone's movie does just that...to a nation in silence, regarding it as entertainment, and passed hurriedly by with little comment...Sort of like 'The Hunger Games' with its can't mistake it anti-totalirian, anti-concentrated federal power message..
While at times, the gore and disgustingly real death can be quite fake looking, the constant bloodthirsty killings, more than compensate any areas of noticeable flaw.The plot will certainly be diced by all critics alike, but one must be realistic when watching a Rambo movie, why will anyone care about the plot.
Surprisingly, he proves them wrong and shows the world Rambo is still able to do what he does best....help others and survive as well.As he says in the trailer, "Killing is as easy as breathin'...." and watching this movie will bring a smile to your face every time, I guarantee it..
Where does one start?This movie is maybe the most horrible thing I've seen this year.The people who gave it 10 stars are probably shocked to read a negative review but hey!I too was shocked by the crapiness of this movie-wannabe and what really shocks me is that people actually enjoy it.I've seen the previous Rambos,they were really good,enjoyable,had a meaning and a plot.However the recipe for this sequel is really cheap:We take Rambo,we give him guns and other ammo,and we let him kill everybody and everything.Who needs a plot anymore?Just take advantage of the audience who obviously has problems and enjoys seeing sadistic scenes of absurd violence painted in lots and lots of blood.Oh yes,the blood!With so much blood (and I mean it,it's just too much!) who's going to notice the absence of a plot?Let's just distract the attention by using gore and extreme violence (whose level is higher than the Empire State Building)and maybe the audience won't notice that this movie well...sucks.Let's just decorate the scenes with limbs,heads on poles,guts...nevermind giving it a meaning!Stallone has lost my respect,I relied on him to make good quality movies.Instead I get this cheap crap aimed at people who probably torture pets in their spear-time.Some think it's "cool",well I think it sucks.And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this way..
230 odd people die in the film, and about 150 are in the last 10 minutes, and it gets incredibly boring.Stallone is the only actor to come out the other side with any credibility, basically because Rambo is the quietest character.*SPOILER* He is also the only character we really know anything about - the rest of the character's development really is non-existent.
what a bunch of nuts..I sat through this pathetic excuse for a movie with almost no storyline- I'm an action movie fan, but Rambo crosses WAY over the line of grotesque, gratuitous violence- multiple women raped, babies thrown into fires, heads blown off, one after the other, hangings, a throat ripped apart, heads cut off & put on poles, legs blown off, dissected & stabbed, people killed by missionaries using rocks- this movie makes Braveheart look like a fairytale..Stallone looks anorexic, plastic & barely alive- we knew he couldn't act,neither can he write or direct, either....this is a complete waste of time- several people walked out after the initial five minutes- wish I'd done the same- it was sickening- its time to put an end to increasingly violent movies- the kids in our inner cities watch these & think its OK to shoot & stab each other at will....
At several times during watching the brand new and almost indescribably violent "Rambo", it's almost like you hear Sly thinking: "Screw everybody, I'm doing this film MY way!" And good for him!
But this movie surprised even me.Rambo starts out with what looks like live footage from a nation called Burma, where atrocious acts of violence from the local military are seen.
stallone plays rambo again in this great film full of action and suspense.
This does remind those willing to see the movie what goes on, unfortunately, in the real world in some countries that tolerate genocide and watching this film will definitely make you root for the good guys to completely vanquish the evil forces.The acting was dramatic and good for the most part, especially those of Stallone and Matthew Marsden (I like his sportsmanship role of Schoolboy who seemed to be the one who allies himself with Rambo more).
The only real complaint I have about this film is at times I think they may have had a little too much violence that I guess they thought was necessary but I do not know if it really was.Overall this is probably the second best of the Rambo series.
The acting is good from the entire cast...even Stallone in my opinion but there were times when you could hardly hear him.The plot of the film involves a bunch of missionaries wanting to go to Burma.Rambo advises them not to, but they insist and he takes them there.A man then comes to him telling him they have not returned.This is because they were captured by the Burmese soldiers.Stallone does a good job in making us really hate the Burmese soldiers.They brutally beat,torture and murder people, rape women etc.The leader is even a pedophile!So now Rambo and some mercenaries go to escape with the missionaries.The movie really makes you root for Rambo and the mercenaries while they are fighting, just like when watching the other Rambo films.If you enjoyed the other Rambo films, this is definitely a must.If you are an action film fan, this is definitely a must!
it's incredibly violent, but NEEDS TO BE, this is actually happening in places like Burma and Stallone wants us to open our eyes with the help of a movie hero, it gets people to listen.it's powerful, epic, violent and very important.
it's so real, gritty and grungy, that seeing it is like you're actually there, I was glued to the screen and when it was over I wanted more.it's so under-rated it's criminal, the violence is not gratuitous, the action is amazing and Stallone's directing and perception of a character are still top notch after all this time, the thing about Sly is, he's not afraid.see it, I highly recommend it..
Films like the Rambo movies give me hope, they literally help me to believe that the world is worth fighting for and that all is not lost.
Rambo IV is one of the best action movies I've seen in a long time..
And Rambo delivered by killing what seemed like a whole country full of them.From the very first shot of this movie you know it's gonna be good.