Rambo
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Year Released: 2008
Rating: 1.5
Never-say-die comic book hero engages in more of the old ultraviolence for this grotesque, ideologically retarded kill-'em-up, as former Green Beret John Rambo - living in Thailand - has to save Christian Missionaries from a rogue army in Burma. The Rambo movies are something of a super-macho joke (for brain-dead America) and this is no exception - the body count rises and gore splatters every which way and Our Hero remains just as cold and pessimistic as ever (Sylvester Stallone has the growling stare perfected by now): in the end it's about the aesthetics of killing and the weapons used to do it (in a documentary clip on the DVD, it shows the great attention to detail that went into deciding what characters carry what tools of destruction) instead of politics or dialogue or plotting or character development. All he is saying is you can't give peace a chance.
