Rambo
More blood part 4

// The skinny: After a group of missionaries get captured in war torn Burma during a relief effort, Rambo goes in and kills everything.

// Review: Stallone has been trying to resurrect his flagging career by renovating his past films which made him famous. It's been met with modest results. I'm still waiting for the gritty remake of Stop! Or My Momma Will Shoot where Estelle Getty curb stomps a orderly when she susupects him of stealing her dentures.

/ The quickest and most accurate way to describe this titular film is brutal. I wouldn't call it gory where the violence is gratuitously drawn out (although Rambo did decide to rip a dude's throat out instead of the 10,000 other easier ways to dispatch a guard). Instead things happen so quickly and shockingly that I kept laughingly blurting out, "WTF!?" I'm talking steel arrows through faces, bodies exploding like watermelons and heads cut in half.

/ I wasn't expecting The Godfather but I was at least hoping for Die Hard in a jungle. It was disappointing that all of the action was included in the movie trailer. Blogs have made a stink about his kill count, but 99% of that was done using the 50 cal mounted on the back of a jeep, which Rambo used with sniper-like precision.

/ An interesting note is that if anyone in Burma is caught with this movie, it is punishable by death. One thing this movie does really well (?) is to shock and disgust you of the atrocities carried out in this genocide. It's pretty rough.

// Wrap up: It's not acted well. Its pacing is uneven. It's not the Hollywood flavor of action you'd expect. But it's Rambo. Live for something, or die trying to justify paying $10 for a ticket.

Entertainment rating: 2