Rambo

This one fits into my category of man flicks, where plot, character development, etc, are utterly thrown out the window, only to be replaced by bouts of extremely violent action scenes. I find Rambo to be like wine. Whereas wine generally gets better as it gets older, he gets just deadlier. I mean, the guy used to have to use a knife. Now, he just picks them up and rips out the entire front half of their necks with his bare hands! To further illustrate my point, we have to analyze each movie. In the first, one guy got killed, by complete accident. In the second, he killed a compound full of vietcong and a few Russian guys. In the third, he wiped out a Russian fortress and about a quarter of the Russian army, including a team of Spetsnaz. In this one, he pretty much wipes out half the population of a small country, before disemboweling the dictator with a giant machete he forged himself. (WTF!?!?) It's almost as if he's trying to make quota with the amount of people he kills ... Read more

When Rambo III was released, it was said that it was the most violent movie ever made. The Violence in Rambo makes Rambo III look like Sesame Street. Two or three people got their heads blown off. A man got blown in half. Rambo chopped a man's head off and he disemboweled a man. With the amount of violence that's in this movie, I'm surprised that it didn't get an NC-17 rating. Some people hired Rambo to take them to Burma. On the way to Burma, Rambo had to kill several people to protect the people on his boat. One of Rambo's passengers was outraged because Rambo killed those people. But around the end of the movie, this same man had to take a life himself. After Rambo took those people to Burma, they got captured. Rambo and a group of other soldiers then had to rescue them. In some parts of the world this movie's title is Rambo IV. They have to use that title because in those parts of the world, First Blood was titled Rambo. This was a good movie but I like Rambo III more. I give it ... Read more

Simplistic, idiotic, jingoistic garbage from one of the most egregious self-serving hacks in the history of Hollywood.

Was this the last one in the franchise? It's *5* Stars if all you were looking for was a self-indulgent, self-gratifying buffet of what you'd hope would be what looks like the before and after effects of a machine gun and the effects were suspect, at best. Shoulda been called "The Feast of the 50 Cal". I don't mind watching violence. The two scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" did it for me. The CGI in this were almost as bad as in "I am Legend". But not nearly as bad as Sly's maple syrup therapy. He's gonna pay for what he did to his body. If you find yourself ooohhhing and aaahhhing at the massacre scenes in this one, you aught to try moving on to snuff flicks...

John Rambo is the greatest man in the history of the universe! This movie was everything I had hoped it would be and more. I always considered my blood-lust to be insatiable, but found myself leaving completely satisfied. My only complaint would be that it is over and I am still not watching it. Society owes a great deal of acclaim to Sylvester Stallone for creating this epic spectacle of carnage. I go to see dramatic films to see good story telling and truly believable character acting. I go to action movies to see outlandish stunts and supreme levels of violence. Needless plot development only takes valuable time away from machine-gunning infantry and arrows through the face. Thank you Mr. Stallone for re-introducing me to the action movie genre. Well done sir. checkout my new Secret Room >> http://shortub.co.cc

Just wasn't the real Rambo.

I barely remember this movie

Pretty much the same ol' same ol' you paid money to see in the last 4 or 5 Rambo movies. Some do-gooders bringing the Bible and medical aid (in that order) to the benighted masses in Burma are captured and tortured by the Burmese army. Like the Golem from Jewish mythology, Rambo knows that he's the only one to save these people, as much as he despises them and their kind, and he arises from the mud of his own tortured apathy to save the day (after a whole lot of blood-letting and killing, of course). Setting the film in Burma is different (I would've thought he might have taken care of Osama Bin Forgotten for us, and maybe even trekked over to Afghanistan to rectify all that he mucked up in Rambo III, and maybe capture Whitey Bulger as the icing on the cinematic cake), but it's basically the same tiresome premise re-hashed once again. The Rambo character of the original novel (which I liked as a teenager) was a bearded, psychopathic timebomb set off on a brutal killing spree with minim... Read more

by far the bloodiest movie i've ever seen.  not much of a story line, but still a decent flick.  i figured it to be worth the matinee price, but apparently they've jacked that to $7.50.  If you like bloody movies, it's worth renting when it comes out.  and hey, sly's 61 years old.... but he's still rambo.