John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, living a solitary and peaceful life in the mountains and jungles. A group of human rights missionaries search him out and ask him to guide them into Burma to deliver medical supplies. When the aid workers are captured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them.

General

Sylvester Stallone brought back John Rambo in Rambo this year! It’s been a long time since we’ve ever seen Rambo again. This movie brings a minor lesson on the civil war in Burma. What you see in the first part of the film is how absolutely horrible the bad guys (in this case the Burmese army) are.

The storyline is a bit lack and the running time is relevantly short. It takes more than half the film to arrive at the first sequencing involving the group of mercenaries. But it’s good to watch as this movie is a action movie with a message, trying to say something about what’s happening in some countries that we could never imagine it like the movie Blood Diamond.

Picture

The documentary style makes the environment and everything that happens in the film feel palpable. What would happen if you put your feet on land mine? The actions scenes are brutally honest, like there are certain gun shots bodies get shredded or blown. You will be shocked from a lot of crazy carnage which would be happening somewhere on the Earth right now.

You would also like its straight ahead 80s-style approach to the action genre. It’s setup and delivery, without a drop of irony or posturing.

Sound

Movie soundtrack is good, just as good as it was in the first three parts, even if there is a lot of explosions and gunshots sound effects (It will blow your ears away).

Performance

Rambo is still tough and doesn’t speak a lot. There is minimum dialog in the film, though there is dialog but nothing all together special. Well Rambo character was never really much of a talker anyway, he doesn’t need to say much of anything the content is just read in his physicality and facial expressions.

However, someone would feel that the film does not deliver a character development or useful dialogue well. It’s true that Stallone spends most of the first half of the film saying “Go home” a lot.

Moreover, none of the aid workers are really given personalities or motivations other than “wanting to help”. It makes us to think more like they are causing problems.

Overall

Some people give quite low ratings to Rambo with many reasons, but well it is what it is , John Rambo. It’s a straight forward no nonsense action film. It was great seeing John Rambo once again for the last time fighting defending all that is good in his final war and won (but Actor Sylvester Stallone and co-producer Harvey Weinstein have already mentioned the possibility of a fifth Rambo film. Some Hollywood leaks have mentioned the possibility of Rambo V being set somewhere in Africa). Even if you are not a Rambo fan, but looking for a action movie, Rambo will not be disappointing you a lot.

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