Real Review - Rambo

It’s true. Rambo is really violent and bloody, but it’s not a great movie. It’s fun, but the dialog is really forced and the acting sucked. It’s too bad, but I actually kind of predicted it. First Blood was the only actually good one. The other two were pretty much a bunch of toddlers in a sandbox playing “Stay Away From My Castle.” I’m sad to say that so does this one.John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is asked by Christian missionaries (including Julie Benz) to help them travel up the river to Burma, an area that received the nickname “Warzone.” After he drops them off, Burma becomes invaded by Burmese military. Most people are killed, but as an action movie cliché, the Christians are taken hostage. Since things goes bad, Rambo and a group of mercenaries go back to Burma to kick some ass and take back the Christians.

Okay, so yeah, it’s violent and yada-yada-yada. Who cares? Some of the violence is really badass, and the rest of the violence is idiotic. And me? I just really enjoyed the one guy throwing the baby into the fire. Sure, it’s kind of messed up, but compared to all of the other action movies released today, like Live Free or Die Hard and Cloverfield, I’m kind of glad that someone actually realizes that there are such things as kids going through situations like this too.

Rambo has always been a war icon to many, but to me, he’s always been just an action star. I can’t really see some guy in the military firing bows and arrows into a guy without getting a gun fired back at him, but it’s a movie, which means I will never let Sylvester Stallone go near my script. There’s a big difference between reality and fiction, and I think that Rambo is right in the middle. It could have been a great action flick, and it got everything right, until the violence came along. I never thought of a Rambo movie becoming a Shoot ‘Em Up type of flick. Still, Dolph Lundgren’s The Punisher will always be the perfect violent action flick.

Even though they are two very different movies, one entertained me more than the other and one didn’t have annoying accents. Oh, and did I mention that one was supposed to be silly and one wasn’t?

Rambo did have a few fun scenes in it. The ending, though it was over-the-top and really cheesy, could make any action movie fan have a heart attack. The beginning was a great opening also. Too bad that the rest of the movie couldn’t keep up.

**½ out of ****

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