Rambo (2008)

Very Cool!!!

Lack of good storyline.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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!

Childish, edgy characters, exploitation, gore and a lot of pew pew. Who would ever want more? Like a real plot, real social commentary, or maybe a real challenge for the protagonist, as opposed to the eerie equivalent of riding a lawnmower over a bunch of rats. Me, I guess.

"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?

The story doesn't make sense; if the Christian do-gooders have been to Burma before why on this occasion do they need Rambo? And, Rambo's blasting truck loads of Burmese soldiers but these boys were kidnapped from villages and made into soldiers, so Rambo needs lessons in compassion. But this movie's a shoot 'em up so Rambo needs lots of so called baddies so hean blow holes in them. And another stupid thing; the rebels helping Rambo at the end: cheesy. Apart from that Rambo's a decent, refreshingly hardcore, kick arse action flick. And at times it's genuinely moving. Go Rambo.