I'm just going to say it - This movie kicks ten kinds of ass all the way into next week.
When you read a review of this movie by critics, you need to remember one thing, what they are viewing as a negative in this movie is a positive.
Sure, the story is a little on the light side. The character development is thin and we as an audience are not too surprised by the end result. But who the hell cares? It's the getting there thats all the fun.
My summery of the film is as follows - Julie Bentz, looking good btw, appeals to Sly's hidden away sense of decency to use his boat to take a group of missionaries up river into war torn Burma. After dropping them off bad, bad things happen and John Rambo goes to kill a whole lot of evil doers. And he does it in style.
Sure there is more to it than that but you need to see this film if you love action movies. I haven't seen a body count this high in a movie in well... possibly ever. The film hearkens back to a time when action movies dominated the box office, a time when Stallone was king. Times have changed, the movie industry has changed, Sly has changed. Nothing wrong with that really, but what makes the film work is this - Stallone has based the story on something that is real - Burma is a fucked up place and the atrocities that occur their are truly horrifying. By opening the film with news footage from the area you feel angry at what you see. Stallone takes that rage on focuses it through Rambo.
Sure, it's not a realistic way to end the reign of terror in that country, but wouldn't if be nice if it were?
I would be remiss if were not to also mention that the movie closes on a positive note and helps to provide some closure to a character who once dominated pop culture in the late 80's.
While this does seemingly bring the Rambo saga to conclusion, if Stallone does decide to go back to the well for another one, I can only hope it's as much fun as this one is.
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