JOHN F'N RAMBO

haha the film was cheezy as the other ones but still a great movie,talking about graphic the special effects was top notch imo.

discuss(i gotta go out).

New Rambo out sometime this year. Looks to be more plausible than the others plot-wise, though still with 25,000 people ending up dead.

Review

AMEN. First Blood is a movie of worth. The shoot ups after must be taken into account because of First Blood.

I saw Rambo IV - the movie is so freaking sweet!

I was scared going into this movie because a lot of the "professional reviewers" complained about a lack of action or a dreary setup leading to the third act. I was just curious: did these reviewers watch the same movie I did? There was never a dull moment in the movie, and there was plenty of action sprinkled throughout the movie (leading to Rambo kicking everyone's ass at the end). It's a Rambo-type action movie, and on that level, it doesn't disappoint at all.

dude the movie was fukn badass, when he got on the .50 cal it was just awesome.

Oh so the new Rambo's out (in the States I presume)? I loved that .50 cal to the head in the trailer...

Watched this film on friday. Not nearly as bad as I expected.

Spoiler alert

Negatives were the unnecessarily detailed scenes of violence, when I am watching a cheesy action film I do not want to see children killed and bayoneted or gang rapes. It this was an attempt at social realism, it was an utter disaster, I am watching Rambo, I don't need the whole war is hell, realism attempt. Another minus was the flaw in the narrative when the mercenaries were captured. Why, how and when were they captured, and why were they apparently captured without a fight, it made no sense whatsoever. The last battle scene, though generally well made, was also somewhat confusing. Especially when the rebels moved in, at this time it became difficult to follow who was firing at who, who the bad guys were and so on.

Interestingly, the film was a sort of syncretism between the old 80's one steroid man beats the crap out of the military of a smaller dictatorship and the more realistic (though far from reality) modern action flick. Rambo was unexpectedly not fighting alone, and the people he was fighting with, though not nearly as good as Achilles reincarnated (Rambo himself) quite competent warriors. I guess the unnecessarily graphic violence scenes were parts of this as well.

The movie was clearly an attempt at getting 12-18year old kids to watch in awe of Rambos super toughness. I am to old for that but I have to admit enjoying myself. The ubercheesy super 1980's poetic justice disembowelment of the evil Burmese commander was hilarious. It can be watched for comedy value.

All in all, a cheesy, cliche of a film, completely lacking in intelligence and without a good or convincing story. However, for the most part, the film didn't attempt to be anything but a brainless entertainment film, and it was quite well made for the genre. If one is after brainless entertainment and can stand the grafic scenes, its a good entertainment film, nothing more and nothing less, I suppose that was its purpose.

Originally Posted by Hansa

The movie was clearly an attempt at getting 12-18year old kids to watch in awe of Rambos super toughness.

Given the high level of violence and naturally high ratings pretty much everywhere this movie can hardly be considered as aimed at 12year olds. The key demographic for such movies are rather young males, anything from late teens to late twenties.

I want to see the movie so I can see Rambo shoot somone with that compound bow from the trailers.

Meh, I only liked the very first one, where he's killing those $hit-kicker policemen that pushed him too far. Cant really picture Johny coming back to kill Murmese militants 1/3 his age.

this was a great movie

damn i loved it

"live for nothing, or die for something"

Rambo rocks the house.
That's why the world is in a poo state - because don't have any more 80's action heroes to pull us out of the crapper.
The Ram saw how retarded the new millenium is and brought some classic 80's whuppass back, just to show us how useless all the new 'action' stars are these days..
"When you're pushed, killin's as easy as breathin'"

Nothing ever changes. The old start wars. The young die in them. And I watch on in awe, and yell "awesome" and "nice" after the head shots.

lmao hansa,you went in expecting a shaksperian level dialog,come on...im tired of these critics and others who goes to shows such as a war flick and bash it for the dialog,ITS suppose to be war not talking people to death with a class dialog as for your threoy on the targets you would be ignorant to think that and thats all i can come up with on such an ignorant statment,rapax said exsactly who it was intended for...


again i am baffled at the people who down these type of films,they cbash it for its 'unintelligent' dialog when it is they wh oare unintelligent for not realising what ticket they boought for which movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGlk244VjAQ

Originally Posted by Apostle Zodd

lmao hansa,you went in expecting a shaksperian level dialog,come on...im tired of these critics and others who goes to shows such as a war flick and bash it for the dialog,ITS suppose to be war not talking people to death with a class dialog as for your threoy on the targets you would be ignorant to think that and thats all i can come up with on such an ignorant statment,rapax said exsactly who it was intended for...


again i am baffled at the people who down these type of films,they cbash it for its 'unintelligent' dialog when it is they wh oare unintelligent for not realising what ticket they boought for which movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGlk244VjAQ

What? No I did not expect Shakespearian dialogue. That was not what I pointed to as a bad aspect of the film. Further I didn't write that it was a bad film either. Reread my post for reference. As for Rapax statement regarding tits audience he is correct, but I believe these films are mostly viewed by people below that age as well, (if not foremost) especially when it is released on DVD.

Actually, a lot of the Rambo franchise' fanbase are those who saw the 80's films when they were young, and are now in their late 20's, 30's and 40's.

The same old Rambo-killing-an-entire-army-by-himself movie.

Nevertheless, the movie experience was great.

It seems people give it a pretty moderate review... Does that mean I should watch it too???:hmmm:

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

It seems people give it a pretty moderate review... Does that mean I should watch it too???:hmmm:

If you dont give a **** about realism then you must see it.