Yay Rambo, it's been years since one has been released, and it wasnt out long enough for me to catch it in the theatres. I was on call, then just didn't find the time.
So I rented it last night. It started out pretty slow. Stallone someohow overacted by not saying a thing. When he finally meets the missionaries, he was a mumbling mess.
Rambo is making a living finding snakes and fish for an exotic animal show, or something like that, somewhere on the border of Burma. A missionary group shows up, and they want Rambo to take them up river to Burma, so they can do their work in war torn Burma, which is controlled by an evil General.
Stop what you're thinking. You aren't getting an Oscar winning script here. It's bad enough Stallone tries to put in a moral thought in it. It works decently, and you have to get him into the war somehow.
So of course, he brings them upriver, because the one woman talks him into it (women are wiley, even Christians), and away they go. He shows why he's Rambo along the way with some river pirates, and drops them off, after they are all disgusted with him.
Of course, they're captured by the evil General, and the games begin. The leader of the church comes back, and pleads with Rambo to take a band of mercenaries he's hired back up there, to spring the missionaries.
The mercenaries have no clue who their transport is, and when they get there, Rambo grabs his bow, and goes to join them, and they tell him to stay. Then the action begins.
You know what's gonna happen. But I have to say, whoever did the war effects, A+. Absolutely gruesome and raw in parts, I loved it.
Stalone was Stalone. The less he spoke, the more I liked it. The one thing I will say about him, he looked fat. Huge arms as usual, but a puffy face, and always kept his body pretty well covered. I think he's still in shape, but age is catching up to him. Or he's refusing plaxtic surgery, and God bless him for it.
The other actors were pretty good, but I don't go see Rambo for the acting. The bad General stood out, because he looked like a weasel, and played a great, viscious one.
The script was probably ten pages long, and gave me exactly what I needed. And despite what it sounded like, I could actually believe it happening like that.
The action was good, the script was doable, the dialogue was Rambo...I give it an 8 out of 10 exploding heads. I'll buy it, and watch it when I don't want to think much, and enjoy it every time. Isn't that what you want out of a movie?
