Rambo: Awesome splatterfest

[Knightfall]

Rambo is hired to bring them upriver. The missionaries think, or at least claim, they can get in and out. Whatever protecting happens, was not actually part of the agreement

Rambo is later hired to bring the mercenaries upriver. He has no say who is on the team.

That's exactly what happens.

This movie was very good! It isn't some fancy war movie, or anything, but it really shows Rambo at his best. He kicks ass, and doesn't apologize for anything. He is still the tortured soul he was, and maybe even more so. And there is some major political commentary, mixed in with this movie, regarding the hell that is Burma.

A few people got up and left. I'm assuming they couldn't take it anymore. It was definitely a splatterfest. A tour of blood and the horrors of war and genocide. One audience member left for a bit in obvious emotional (or possible physical) discomfort. (She did come back, however.)

Do you remember the first time you saw Saving Private Ryan? Remember the blood on the beaches and the men flying apart, later on? If that made you sick then you likely won't want to see this movie. (Note: I'm not comparing Rambo to Saving Private Ryan beyond the blood and bodyparts flying.)

Rambo isn't a cinematic masterpiece; it's a RAMBO movie, pure and simple. As frankthedm stated, not for the squeamish. (The movie is rated 18A.)

 

[RigaMortus2]

I am still hoping for another Missing in Action movie with... CHUCK NORRIS!!!1111!

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Thank goodness they didn't decide to add in a sex scene.

That would have pushed it from gross action flick to gross horror flick.

Heh.

I've never been a Rambo fan. But I might watch this one.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Just saw it last night. BUCKETS of gore. There are SO many decapitations, head explosions, body parts flying, gaping holes ripped in torsos, red-mist mortar hits, and assorted knifings that when combined with the TOTAL absence of plot and characterization I found the entire movie laughable - and thus a so-bad-it's-almost-adequate experience. DESPERATELY needs the MST3K treatment as it lacks an interocetor with voltarator or electron sorter.

 

[Simon Atavax]

Thank goodness they didn't decide to add in a sex scene. Stallone in a sex scene at this age would really make it "not for the squeamish."

I still shudder with revulsion at memory of his sex scene with Sharon Stone in "The Specialist" (1994). The world's two most egotistical, self-absorbed people (at the time, that is) in a sex scene--yech.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Looking forward to seeing this. The gf has confirmed a date for the weekend.