Rambo Review

It's a bird! It's plane! No, it's the ageless wonder himself, Sly Stallone!

Rambo is the fourth movie in a series that follows around sulking anti-hero and resident killing machine John Rambo. It's the first Rambo movie in 20 years, believe it or not.

This time around, Rambo is still in Vietnam, catching snakes and giving boat rides for a living, when a bunch of Christian missionaries hire him to escort them into war-torn Burma. That is the be-all and end-all of the "story." It's just an excuse to get Rambo to kill some people, really.

This movie is shallow, but enjoyable. If you like action movies, then see it in the theater. It's nowhere near the masterpeice of action Die Hard 4 was (and most certainly not as good as Stallone's other resurrection, Rocky Balboa), but it's still a decent enough return to the franchise.

We see Rambo decapitate, decimate, mow down, slaughter, and otherwise just maim and destroy, but the plot does have an interesting commentary on the sanctity of human life and what makes a human being. It's not exactly deep, but it's serviceable. Occasionally, the visual effects are really despicable, but sometimes it just floors you. The movie is visceral, brutal, and very gory. That's what I wanted and I wasn't disappointed.

really, though, this movie doesn't do anything except dievert your mind for 93 minutes. It's a very short film with ultimateyl no purpose other than to entertain. And it does that fairly well, but it also leaves a lot to be desired especially since the returns to the Rocky and Die Hard series were so great.

70/100