Lionsgate Films | 2008 | 91 mins | Rated R | May 27, 2008
If you’ve been wondering what ever happened to ex–Green Beret superwarrior John Rambo since he singlehandedly shot up a Pacific Northwest town (First Blood, 1982), returned to the jungles of ‘Nam to free U.S. POWs held long after war’s end (Rambo: First Blood Part II, 1985), and interrupted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan long enough to blow lots of stuff up and rescue his old commandant from the Reds (Rambo III, 1988), then Rambo (2008) is for you. Without so much as a IV to dilute the brand name, Rambo–which is what most of us called the second, most iconic film in the series–may aspire to open a new era for a pop legend.
The latest Rambo is the most bare-bones of the bunch. Rambo has little to say, so it’s especially galling that Stallone, as director and co-writer, obliges him to have essentially the same conversation at three different points (the final distillation: “Live for nothing or die for something”). The Burmese army goons seem in competition to commit the most hideous atrocity (e.g., child skull-crushing underfoot), the better to justify the eventual, lovingly protracted spectacle of them being eviscerated by high-powered weaponry.
Although shot in Thailand, the movie has mostly been photographed in brown, reducing any particular sense of place but, perhaps, perversely increasing our gratitude for the splashes of purple whenever hot metal tatters flesh.
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Product Details
Julie Benz, Ken Howard, Sylvester Stallone, Graham McTavish, Paul Schulze
Sylvester Stallone
AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Burmese, English, Thai
English, Spanish
Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
2.40:1
2
Rated R
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
May 27, 2008
91 minutes
112 Customer Reviews
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Should be required viewing for all Americans
By M. A Spitzer “mas017″, (Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA) - March 31, 2008
RAMBO (2008) should be mandatory viewing for all citizens in the United States ?
Why do I say this ?We as a society have had it so good for so long that too many of our people take our quality of life for granted today and thus sit back with apathy as warning signs pop up in front of us everyday that the America we loved and respected and was once great…. is eroding away from within every day.
It’s depressing to see this once great nation rot from within like the Roman Empire did before us.
Along these lines, too many American citizens today know almost nothing about the world beyond AMERICAN IDOL and GREYS ANATOMY TV shows.[…]
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