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Rambo
Rambo's back, though if you weren't around in the 80s you wouldn't know it cause the title of the movie gives off the illusion that it's the first one... I guess I'll never be satisfied with the Rambo movie title system (First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III). So I might refer to this as Rambo IV: First Blood Part III. But that's a lot of extra typing.
When a Christian group visits the now peaceful and reflective Rambo for a boat ride into Burma to help war victims, Rambo reluctantly agrees to take them, warning them about the possible dangers. Weeks pass and Rambo is informed by the group's pastor that they have gone missing. Rambo realizes he must go into battle once again and leads a rescue mission for the captured Americans.
The Good: The action in Rambo is the most realistic looking I think I've ever seen. The editing is very effective, with certain potions of action sequences speeding up for emphasis. If you like a lot of gory action, with bodies flying everywhere, you'll really like the new Rambo.
The Bad: The action in Rambo is the most realistic looking I think I've ever seen. Could it have possiby been too much? The only thing I really didn't like about the movie was how it just sort of ended. There wasn't too much closure, other than Rambo standing triumphant in victory with the survivors.
The Verdict: I'm having a hard-time deciding what to put in the "Good" and "Bad" sections for this review. There's a lot of gray area in my mind about the new Rambo movie. While the violence is incredibly graphic, and at times very brutal and horrific, I find myself defending it. We are a different world than we were in the days of the original First Blood movies. What is acceptable (and possible to create) on screen is very different than it was twenty years ago. Part of me wants to say that the movie is too violent... but so is war. If Stallone wanted to make a movie to get people thinking about war, and just how awfully devestating it can be, then he sure did it. Are we ready for a movie with this level of "pretend" violence when we are freely able to turn on cable news channels and see footage of real war zones? I don't think the movie is a step in either direction, good or bad. The new Rambo flick is just a representation of the harshness of it all.
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