dworldeater
Sly made a strong comeback previous to this with his latest Rocky installment. However with Rambo, he blew all my expectations out of the water and is a gigantic improvement to the really lame Rambo 3. Rambo is a return to form for the character and is the most like the 1st installment (First Blood). Rambo is totally gritty, ultra violent and dark character piece for Stallone and he gives a tremendous performance, which brings to mind my all time favorite movie Unforgiven. John Rambo is living in Thailand and working as a snake handler. He returns to action when Julie Benz and her group of christians are not heard from when they went to Burma to provide aid and christian propoganda. This brings to light the reality of genocide and civil war that is still ongoing in Burma. Sly pulls no punches in his depiction of these events in this film and showcases extreme brutality by turning the bad guys to spaghetti. Rambo is easily the bloodiest and goriest non horror film out there and delivers in bloodsoaked ultra violence. This is the best installment since the 1st film and I can't wait to check out Rambo 5!
gorf
"Rambo" is the fourth movie in the series of violent action films starring Sylvester Stallone as the Vietnam Vet John Rambo. It's a more "realistic" movie than the ones from the 80s. It's less cartoonish and cheesy. Sylvester Stallone even keeps his shirt on.Sadly, the extreme and sadistic violence drags it down. Heads explode, people are eaten by pigs, women and children are raped. And in one of the most disturbing scenes, a Burmese soldier grabs a baby out of the arms of the mother and throws him into a burning hut. The good thing about this movie is its religious themes, and that it deals with the persecution of Christians in Burma. But it feels exploitative...the sadistic violence against those people is only there so the audience can cheer when Rambo massacres the badguys in the most gruesome ways possible. I remember some people cheered and clapped their hands when the sniper took one soldier's head off. I'm not saying that it's always wrong to go to war or act in self defense. I'm not even against capital punishment for the most dangerous people. But killing is a serious matter. It shouldn't be fun. We shouldn't enjoy seeing people get killed...This movie should just have been a drama movie, like Gran Torino. Imagine if people went into this movie, expecting a violent Rambo movie, and got the exact opposite instead. A thoughtful movie about war and faith. Maybe Rambo 5 will get it right?
Eric Stevenson
I guess I'm more with the critics on this one. I didn't care much for this movie because I thought it was mostly pointless. It's just the same old stuff of Rambo arriving and killing everybody. It's not even until the last part that you even see Rambo wipe out a bunch of people. I'm annoyed by the clichés in this movie. You see someone trying to get help from Rambo and he says he can't make a big difference or something like that. There's this odd scene where we see a bunch of flashbacks that looks like trailer fodder that shouldn't be in a movie.There were rumors of a fourth Rambo movie made where he would fight Osama bin Laden. This is that fourth movie but he doesn't partake in the War on Terror. I doubt that if he did, the movie would be any better. It's mostly an excuse to constantly show death and destruction. Now the fight scenes themselves were actually pretty well done. It's just that character development is taken away in case of explosions. It's really no worse than any other big budget action flick. I've now seen every Rambo movie and it's been okay watching them. **
dirtypolo
For nearly 10 years we of all people say that Robert Rodriguez's Machete is a homage grindhouse movie... we where wrong, that movie is just a crappy political thriller after the intro which is awesome. After Grindhouse in 2007, before Machete in 2010 along came Rambo aka Rambo 4 or John Rambo in 2008. When I watched Rambo for the first time I thought it was just good because I was that pumped and over hyped for Machete, well I was wrong because after all this time I know Rambo is a proper exploitation movie as well as a damn good bad ass sequel. This movie you have all of the cool action and sleaze, heads getting blown off all practically done very well, evil scum bad guys killing children and of course Rambo killing the bad guy at the end with a mean f@%K you look on his face.Rambo should be played along with Grindhouse: Planet Terror/Death Proof and Hobo with a Shotgun.
AD
