Rambo (Full Screen Edition)

Rambo (Full Screen Edition)
by Sylvester Stallone

Rambo (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Graham McTavish, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Reynaldo Gallegos, Sylvester Stallone
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: Glen MacPherson
Editor: Sean Albertson
Editor: Don Shore
Producer: Peter Block
Producer: Boaz Davidson
Producer: Danny Dimbort
Producer: Randall Emmett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lionsgate

Movie Reviews of Rambo (Full Screen Edition)

Movie Review: Symphony of Rage and Redemption
Summary: 5 Stars

Best and most outlandish war film since Peckinpah's WILD BUNCH. Ultra violent, ultra stylized, but never condescending or patronizing; an adult film for adult audiences, and Stallone treats both the material and his audience with great respect. I understand Stallone was profoundly influenced by Ruggero Deodato's 1979 CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, and it shows in every unsparing, unforgiving frame. CH, however, endured rightful notoriety from too-realistic, nauseatingly real-time horrors; Stallone thankfully spares us that; but his depictions of human suffering are at times extremely tough to witness; yet he pulls us through it with sheer pulse-pounding adrenaline and a real gung-ho, get the baddies - and they ARE bad - most Americans are clueless about the true nature of evil in this world, and Stallone nails it perfectly.

Clint Eastwood is our Gary Cooper; Stallone, with this masterpiece, may be our new John Wayne.

Rating: 10 of 10. Bravo, Sly!

Summary of Rambo (Full Screen Edition)

If you've been wondering what ever happened to ex-Green Beret superwarrior John Rambo since he singlehandedly shot up a Pacific Northwest town (First Blood, 1982), returned to the jungles of 'Nam to free U.S. POWs held long after war's end (Rambo: First Blood Part II, 1985), and interrupted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan long enough to blow lots of stuff up and rescue his old commandant from the Reds (Rambo III, 1988), then Rambo (2008) is for you. Without so much as a IV to dilute the brand name, Rambo--which is what most of us called the second, most iconic film in the series--may aspire to open a new era for a pop legend. But it's a thoroughly mechanical attempt to reanimate a franchise that, absent the anger, frustration, and self-loathing of the post-Vietnam years, has no meaning or purpose. For some time now Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has been putt-putting along the Thai-Burmese border in a longboat, catching exotic snakes to sell. As for the 60-year civil war in Burma between the brutal government and the Karen independence movement, he ignores it. Enter a party of American missionaries whose dewy blond spokeswoman (Dexter's Julie Benz) asks Rambo to haul them upriver so that they can bring medical aid to the insurgents. After the requisite number of monosyllabic refusals, he does. Soon afterward the do-gooders are in a world of hurt, and he's summoned to lead a squad of mercenaries on a rescue mission.

As storytelling, the latest Rambo is the most bare-bones of the bunch. Rambo has little to say, so it's especially galling that Stallone, as director and co-writer, obliges him to have essentially the same conversation at three different points (the final distillation: "Live for nothing or die for something"). The Burmese army goons seem in competition to commit the most hideous atrocity (e.g., child skull-crushing underfoot), the better to justify the eventual, lovingly protracted spectacle of them being eviscerated by high-powered weaponry. Although shot in Thailand, the movie has mostly been photographed in brown, reducing any particular sense of place but, perhaps, perversely increasing our gratitude for the splashes of purple whenever hot metal tatters flesh. --Richard T. Jameson

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The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by missionaries to protect them during a humanitarian aid effort on behalf of the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After the missionaries are taken prisoner by Burmese soldiers Rambo gets a second impossible job: rescue the missionaries in the midst of a civil war.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/HEROES Rating: R UPC: 031398232988 Manufacturer No: 23298

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