Rambo

Starring: Sylvester Stallone Directed by: Sylvester Stallone Runtime: 93 min. Rated: R Release date: January 25, 2008 - More Info
READER RATINGS:
3.2 OVERALL	Smart . . . . . . . . 4 Sexy . . . . . . . . . 3 Funny . . . . . . . . 2.5

The Nerve Review

Sylvester Stallone's enduring alter-egos, Rocky Balboa and John Rambo, have a strange history. Both characters first appeared on the screen in understated and elegant films. While Rocky put Stallone under the spotlight, it was First Blood that proved that the then thirty-six year-old actor was more than a one-trick pony. These characters persisted on screen for a decade, in progressively more ridiculous sequels. By the end, Rocky ended communism by fighting He-Man, and Rambo helped by blowing up communists in Afghanistan. This over-the-top fare was Sly's stock in trade until he resurrected Rocky in 2006 in Rocky Balboa. Balboa turned out to be a poetic and introspective movie, a respectful swansong for the franchise and a sign of real maturity in its author. Rambo is the exact opposite of Rocky Balboa, replacing its subtlety and charm with pointless violence and cruelty. In fairness, you could argue that pointless violence and cruelty was the point of all the Rambo films, but that doesn't address the myriad problems that keep Rambo from working.

Rambo takes place in Burma, focusing on the decades-long war between the governing Burmese military and the Christian ethnic minority called the Karen. This is potent subject matter that fits well with the war-is-hell theme of the Rambo franchise. Opening with news footage, Stallone appears to be making a statement about global indifference towards the ongoing Burmese genocide. He isn't. The Burmese people, both the evil soldiers and the all-but-helpless Karen, are little more than cannon fodder for Rambo's ninety-minute runtime, and not a single principal character is actually Burmese. Stallone instead populates the movie with American/British mercenaries and lily-white Christian missionaries.

If you're just looking for action, it's here in abundance. Rambo features possibly the goriest violence I've seen on screen. It makes Eli Roth look like Walt Disney. But it's too pretentious to work as mindless fun, while still too daft and incoherent to make any sort of statement about war (beyond it being bad). Tragically, Stallone has made the Rambo series's Rocky V. — John Constantine

Your Reviews

Just got back. I wasn't expecting that. FUCKIN KILLER.

Preview for "Son of Ranbow" looks funny. It's the Funny man! Give it here package Boy! I caught yer show in the velvet room at the holiday inn, I loved it when you busted into Viva Las Vegas. The nineties are killing me! Ishouldn't have done that! You're not supposed to tell a guy yer gonna killem no more! I have to tip toe thru the tulips with these assholes! Taking all the fun...out of the job...Papa Joe, wnat me to go now/.? All the boys, tell me, how you make them laugh. What a crack up you are . I am having a shitty day. Tell me a funny joke. So "Meat Train" looks pritty fuckin lame. Clive Barker is the shit too. Whats at the heart of the city? Same thing thatt's floating around Saturn. Math. Not some deush bag wth a camera.

"It may be Meanmar to you Elaine but it will always be Burma to me!"
"Don't tell me! I sold raincoats for thirty years!' "Morty...yer fired."

Stallone I've always thought is a killer wroteer. I really like the rocky series especially the first one. Adrain and them galsses! In this Rambo I like the dialogue:
"I was drafted in nam"
"You never left?"
"It'scomplicated."
{Live for nothing or die for something} I liked that but thought it was at the wrong time. From the chick perhaps to Jon...but not at the beginning. Yeah, most of the dipshit suburban thug hustlers in the theater with me thought it was a litttle chesy too. But hey, they mostly sat arund with the look on theor face like "gen ocide occurs in the world? they really gang rape women at their wim, enslve children into war, and cut your head off if you disagree? Am iResponsible? Of course not. I'm not directly invovled, it just is. It goes on and there is nothing I can do. I can hustle you though. Becasue I'm a good liar. People don't know when I lie becasue I'm good at it...LOL!

How bout that arrow to the head and landing on the land mine? LOL! And the Larnyx Rip ain't got nothin on the Ranger Choke Hold! Man, I heard Dalton could do that with two fingers. I heard he's got balls big enough to cum in a dump truck.

THe first Rambo is my fvorite. By far. Very emotional, very...just fuckin good. I watch it a couple times a year. Have for a long time.

In summary, LOLOLOLLOLO I'm fuckin Matt Damon... Get it? Becasue I'm talking about her breasts? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

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the funky brown chick

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