Rambo III (1988)

Memorable, crazy movie

best movie i've ever seen.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Rambo III in my opinion is one of the worst action films of the 80's that Stallone did. It is not a good movie. This movie falls short. I love the first two films and the fourth one to death. First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II are action classic movies favorites of mine. Rambo (2008) is my favorite and better than this movie. A lot of people love this one but hate the fourth movie and they put this movie over the fourth one I disagree. This movie is by far the worst one. I dislike it very much, it is not my couple of tea. The third movie is way too slow it has slow action sequences. The pacing is slow. It takes 50 mins. in the movie before Rambo goes in to action. Rambo suppose to be one men army like he was in First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo but in here he has help. Why? That was stupid idea. Colonel Trautman and the Mujahedeen rebels helps Rambo fighting against the Russians. This movie is so unrealistic. I don't care about Mujahedeen, Afghanistan or those people I don't. It is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan. How many Russians soldiers did the Taliban killed in the real life? Russians did not killed 3.000 American life's in 9/11 but Al-Qaeda the Taliban Afghanistan people did. In the Thailand he was a hustler and he was fighting for money in the stick fighting. Seriously? The pacing is slow the action is slow. I like this movie less and less than I did before. Rambo has a new knife and he barely use it. Rambo is like in only one scene for 5 mins alone one men army but than not anymore when he saves Colonel Trautman and rebel prisoners. Rambo shoots Kourov (Randy Raney) with a bow and arrow and Kourov takes a soldier for a shield instead they should have been blown to pieces both of them only one soldier was blown to pieces but Kourov survives and is burned up angry soldier now. Rambo was shot from a helicopter in the leg and he was still running around like a Terminator. Rambo and Colonel Trautman were surrounded by army soldiers and were under the fire both of them survived under siege by the Russians army that would have been impossible. In real life they would be both shot down and been death. This movie has no Jungles and no woods like the first two and the fourth one had. The movie was shot in Israel and not Afghanistan. I am huge Stallone fan I would rather watch First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II than this. Rambo, Demolition Man, Cliffhanger, Cobra, Over the Top, Lock Up, Tango & Cash, Cop Land, The Specialist, The Expendables all Rocky movies much better movies than this one in my opinion. Stallone did a good movies but this movie just isn't he's good one or my favorite. The plot and the story was stupid and bad idea. The acting was terrible, Rambo did not showed any emotions to me. This war was stupid. The action sequences are way too slow. The music score is boring and does not fit to the first two movies. This is Stallone's fault he blew it. Rambo crashes with the tank in the helicopter and survives un realistic. The worst movie in the franchise and the weakest action movie 1/10.

It doesn't matter how weak this movie was, Sly was 42 and ripped to shreds. The discipline it takes to stay in this kind of shape is always down played. Was he on 'roids? Maybe? Who cares. The man got game! Serious game. He endures. Perseverance. Always move forward. Donald wants to make him part of his team. Sly relevant always. What person except Eastwood has created memorable and bankable characters like Sly? They both keep on keeping on. Respect comes to mind. Deep respect. IMDb needs to chill on these reviews. I express myself as I please. Not enough lines? Junk words? No junk here baby.This athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director may never be mentioned by old-school film critics in the same breath as, say, Richard Burton or Alec Guinness; however, movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 30 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.

At this point in his life, John Rambo (Stallone, of course) just wants to be left alone. He lives and works at a monastery in Thailand, and he'd rather practice Buddhism than war. Though he does do some stickfighting on the side so he can win some extra cash from the locals. When his old buddy from 'Nam, Col. Trautman (Crenna) finds him and wants him to fight in Afghanistan against the evil Russian baddies, Rambo initially declines the offer. But when the head evil Russian, Col. Zaysen (de Jonge), kidnaps and tortures Trautman, Rambo snaps in to action. He goes from Buddhist monk to one-man wrecking crew at the drop of a hat, annihilating everything in his path as he helps the Afghanis - who, we must remember, were the good guys during this particular conflict. Will Rambo live to blow things up another day? John Rambo returns - again - for this third and not-quite-final installment. In 1988, the world was still in the grip of Rambo Fever, which necessitated this second sequel, and later the cartoon series, Rambo and the Forces of Freedom, and finally the toy line based on the cartoon. And speaking of one-dimensional animated characters, here Stallone looks like a human cartoon. Much like how the original Rocky (1976) was a sensitive, downbeat drama for the most part which then got distorted into something unrecognizable by the time of the countless sequels, here it's easy to forget the original First Blood (1982) and its sensitive, troubled John Rambo character. Now he's a 'roided up superhero who can essentially leap tall buildings in a single bound and if he breathes on a helicopter it blows up.Now, if you overlook the history of the Rambo series (hey, shouldn't this movie be called "First Blood III"? No movies in the series before this were called "Rambo"...but we digress) there is plenty of stupid fun to be had. There is action and adventure aplenty, and first-time director (though he'd been in the film industry for many years prior) Peter MacDonald pours it on with aplomb. Near-constant blow-ups, machine-gun shooting, knife-throws, horse chases, neck snaps, and tank and helicopter battles ensue. As exploding helicopter enthusiasts know, this has one of the best of all time. The explosions are classic 1988 explosions, and with a very big budget behind it, everything looks top-notch and they clearly didn't skimp.Of course, there is also the Prerequisite Torture - this time of Trautman - and we also get the classic "yelling while shooting a machine gun", the exploding guard tower, and the evil Russkies, among many other clichés, but they're the FUN clichés we all love and enjoy. You wouldn't even think this movie would be necessary after Rocky single-handedly conquered Russia in Rocky IV (1985), but here Stallone goes again, basically winning the Cold War single-handedly - well, with Reagan of course. Clearly the Italian film industry was paying attention, as there are countless...er...TRIBUTES to this particular Rambo outing, too many to name here. But as much as we enjoyed Rom Kristoff, Brent Huff, and Reb Brown, among others, following in his footsteps, there is without a doubt only one John Rambo.Sure, Stallone doesn't clearly delineate his words, and his excessive slurring causes you to need to put the subtitles on, but not to worry. Most of the second half of the movie is without dialogue, and is essentially 45 minutes of crud blowing up. Its nearest rival in that department is our beloved Commander (1988) - and, truth be told, Commander is probably more enjoyable and a better movie all around, and it was all done on a far lower budget. But who needs words when Stallone's mullet and almost 100-percent-of-the-running-time shirtlessness do the talking? Seeing as how he co-wrote the movie, and was juicing to a ridiculous degree, we felt it was pretty 'vein' of him. But it's all part of the fun, we suppose. Because it was the wonderful 80's, things were just bigger back then - bigger hair, bigger cell phones, bigger houses, etc. In the ever-escalating world of Rambo sequels, it means bigger knives, bigger machine guns, and far more lethal bows-and-arrows.Of course it's stupid, but it's ENJOYABLY stupid. You root for Rambo to blow the bad guys to smithereens, and you have a good time doing it. As we've mentioned before, characters like Rambo - and, by extension, movies like this - stand as a bulwark against our wussy, overly-PC society. If we stop watching them, we'll all slide even further down the PC slope into oblivion. For that reason alone, Rambo III is worth seeing, if not owning.

I had a ton of fun watching this. Not a stellar movie by any means but if you're in the mood for a solid action flick with a high body count and some cool stunts it works great. I actually didn't think it was as terrible as the critics made out, granted its not as good as the first two but the stunts are awesome and taking Rambo to Afghanistan, putting him on a horse and having him rescue Colonel Trautman was a decent enough story.Stallone spouts some serious muscles with this instalment, he also rides a horse like a pro, stick fights like a champion, cauterizes his shrapnel wound with gunpowder (awesome), gets dragged under a tank, climbs a rock face, turns one of the Russians into a human pinwheel with his exploding arrows, pilots a helicopter, crashes the helicopter, breaks necks and blows a lot of sh!t up. Come to think of it Rambo does it all in this movie. He is a war machine with great hair and an amazing body. 12/29/15