If you want to see a straight forward, no nonsense action flick, then the next time you log in to your movie download service, put Rambo on the queue. Rambo 4. It's just called Rambo even though it's the fourth in the series. It goes like this: First Blood, First Blood Part 2: Rambo, Rambo 3, and then just Rambo. It's confusing, there's no telling why they did it like that. Why not just First Blood, Rambo 2, Rambo 3 and Rambo 4? Well there's no telling. But, Rambo is sort of a return to the roots of the series.
The movie is simple and straight forward. Rambo meets a woman he likes, she gets kidnapped, he kills all the bad guys to save her. Rambo 2 and 3 went the opposite directions, making the stories too complicated and in the end suffering for it. Those movies felt like bloated Hollywood excess, Rambo is raw, dirty, gritty, lean and relatively low budget.
The best of the series is still First Blood. First Blood was a very human, real movie, focusing on the disillusionment of the Vietnam Veterans upon returning home from the war. The second and third movies in the series then were sort of insults to the original. While Rambo is certainly an action movie, it also fits some social commentary into the proceedings.
The film takes place in Burma, a place that is, in real life, right now, in the middle of a very violent civil war. Stallone wanted to use his position as a Hollywood star to turn attention towards a real, pressing issue, and he chose Burma. In fact, he shot right outside of the real Burma and was given death threats by the very same army that he vilifies in the film.
The movie took a courageous effort to film, and it feels authentic. It's also explosively violent in a way that is very real. It really drives home the suffering of the Burmese people, and because this is a real conflict, the movie feels much more socially responsible than the second and third films in the series. The end result is a movie that is both enthralling and conscientious.
Rambo does kill hundreds upon hundreds of badguys, so it's not entirely realistic, but the movie never feels false in how it portrays the way this really happens, what it does to everyone involved. As Stallone says in the trailers "When you're pushed, killin's as easy as breathin'". Yes, but for the characters who have never killed before, and who are now pushed, it's not something that weighs easily on their souls. The movie never feels like a cartoon.
The film is very pure in the way it develops. It's really just action with some character development along the way. It's mythical, Biblical in a way, and is just as pure an action film as classics like Commando, Robocop and The Road Warrior. In fact, it feels like it was made out of time, as if it could have easily been an eighties action film in many ways, back when the genre was in its prime.
This has really been Stallone's time. Rocky Balboa, Rambo, and the upcoming The Expendables. He's really back on top, and here's hoping it stays that way.
The movie is simple and straight forward. Rambo meets a woman he likes, she gets kidnapped, he kills all the bad guys to save her. Rambo 2 and 3 went the opposite directions, making the stories too complicated and in the end suffering for it. Those movies felt like bloated Hollywood excess, Rambo is raw, dirty, gritty, lean and relatively low budget.
The best of the series is still First Blood. First Blood was a very human, real movie, focusing on the disillusionment of the Vietnam Veterans upon returning home from the war. The second and third movies in the series then were sort of insults to the original. While Rambo is certainly an action movie, it also fits some social commentary into the proceedings.
The film takes place in Burma, a place that is, in real life, right now, in the middle of a very violent civil war. Stallone wanted to use his position as a Hollywood star to turn attention towards a real, pressing issue, and he chose Burma. In fact, he shot right outside of the real Burma and was given death threats by the very same army that he vilifies in the film.
The movie took a courageous effort to film, and it feels authentic. It's also explosively violent in a way that is very real. It really drives home the suffering of the Burmese people, and because this is a real conflict, the movie feels much more socially responsible than the second and third films in the series. The end result is a movie that is both enthralling and conscientious.
Rambo does kill hundreds upon hundreds of badguys, so it's not entirely realistic, but the movie never feels false in how it portrays the way this really happens, what it does to everyone involved. As Stallone says in the trailers "When you're pushed, killin's as easy as breathin'". Yes, but for the characters who have never killed before, and who are now pushed, it's not something that weighs easily on their souls. The movie never feels like a cartoon.
The film is very pure in the way it develops. It's really just action with some character development along the way. It's mythical, Biblical in a way, and is just as pure an action film as classics like Commando, Robocop and The Road Warrior. In fact, it feels like it was made out of time, as if it could have easily been an eighties action film in many ways, back when the genre was in its prime.
This has really been Stallone's time. Rocky Balboa, Rambo, and the upcoming The Expendables. He's really back on top, and here's hoping it stays that way.
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