// 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.