Rambo (DVD, 2008, Full Frame)

Rambo is an 80s-style action movie with modern sensibilities. Stallone is not a one-man army as in previous movies but rather a dogged old soldier that comes to terms with what he actually is while racking up a body count that would make Tarintino proud. In many ways, this movie parallels Rocky Balboa as a mature ending to a series of sometimes over-the-top but fun action movies. John Rambo in this movie is an aging but potent killing machine that for the first time since First Blood accomplishes his mission in a very believable manner. The action is visceral and downright gory at times surpassing the hard-core scenes of Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan. The film pulls no punches when showing exactly what a Barret .50 caliber sniper rifle can do to a human body. Stallone mutters only a very few lines of dialog in this movie... there's no speeches or patriotic flag waving going on here but there is a clear lesson on how well liberal idealism holds up under barbaric realities amid genocide and war.

Rambo is a new movie that was released by Sly as he revisits the second of his franchise characters.

This movie finds a small intro that is very violent about troubles in Burma. It is basically newsreel type quality. This sets the stage for the bad guys in the movie.

The story finds Rambo capturing cobra's and other snakes (NOT RATTLESNAKES!) in the jungle. He is recruited by missionaries to take them up the river to Burma.

Eventually the missionaries are captured and Rambo takes a group of mercenaries that have been hired to rescue the missionaries up to Burma.

It is at this point that we get past the quiet brooding Rambo and we see the action that we remember from Rambo. There is the arrow attacks, the big guns, personal attacks with a machete/knife.

The main difference between the other Rambo movies and this one is the level of violence. Blood is flying, guts are spilling, limbs are flying, and the odd head ends up on a stick. It is very violent and lots of bullets are fired. Be careful with this movie with younger children.

4/5

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If you like exploding heads and flying body parts, this is the movie for you. I was shocked by the level and relentless nature of the violence, but I was also pleasantly surprised that the film was actually pretty good!

It's got a wafer thin plot, just enough to get John Rambo into the mission, and just enough character to make you want someone to survive. But, this movie isn't about Oscar-worthy performances or clever plotting. It's about a man named John Rambo and a rag-tag (is there any other kind?) group of mercenaries that travel into the jungles of Burma and kick some booty. Along the way, there is a lot, repeat, a lot of violence dished out by all sides and plenty of innocents get in and get in a bad way.

The film doesn't pretend to be something it's not and what it is succeeds.

If you like Rambo, you'll love this. If you didn't, cover your eyes.

Coming off the success of 2006's ROCKY BALBOA, action star Sylvester Stallone revisits yet another of his iconic characters from the 1980s, John Rambo. Now living like a hermit and wrangling rattlesnakes in Thailand, Rambo is drawn back into the action by a group of do-gooder missionaries who want the taciturn, possibly psychotic, Vietnam vet to ferry them upriver into Burma. Though he initially proves reluctant--"Burma's a warzone"--Sarah, played by Julie Benz, convinces Rambo of their noble intentions. Doesn't he want to relieve suffering and stop ethnic cleansing? But when the group of idealists gets captured by the Burmese army, it's up to Rambo and a team of multinational mercenaries to save the day. What follows is an exhilarating, hypnotic explosion of violence as Rambo fights genocide with genocide, turning men into hamburger meat with high-powered machine guns, well-placed bombs, razor-sharp machetes, and, the most deadly weapon of all, his bare hands. Rather than trying to update the character, RAMBO succeeds largely by returning to the Reagan-era values that made its hero so great in the first place: his pathological obsession with laying waste to emphatically evil characters in increasingly grotesque ways. Indeed, the film's action sequences recall the opening of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, as bodies turn to reddish slush, entrails pour forth with abandon, and limbs are severed with bewildering frequency. Stallone (who also wrote and directed) perfectly embodies his role, a muscular, mumbling killing machine that recalls, in all the best of ways, Karloff's Frankenstein monster. While some may take issue with RAMBO's brutal onscreen violence, the film has an undeniably cathartic impact that has less to do with realistic storytelling, and more to do with the power of myth.

It is just as good as Rambo 2 and 3. The movie shows the dangers that Christian missionaries go through. The citizens of Burma (Mirramar) are so oppressed and we in the USA take so much for granted. We should never stop praying for those oppressed in Mirramar.

Stallone is definitely in character in this one! This movie is without a doubt the best Rambo of them all. Although it is quite graphic, it shows just how harsh war battles can be and how much it takes to be in the military and what soldiers may endure when they are fighting these battles.

Great action pack movie sylvester stallon really put alot into this movie It has action all the way threw this and sylvester dose'nt even look that old in this movie

I bought this movie as a gift from someone else and I did not personally view it. However, the person I bought it for enjoyed the movie very much. They said it was "excellent."

Stallone really does prove once again why he is a Legend and he truly does still possess very good acting skills. This movie is full of action and very intense!!!! I is just a little too bloody for me. One problem about this movie is that I believe there is more truth to it than we all want to think about!!

In my opinion this is the most outstanding final to a theme movie. Way better than any Schwarzenegger flic(sorry Arnold). This movie is probably as close to REAL as you can get when it comes to what that kind of firepower does to a human being. Hope you have a steel stomach. Directed by Sylvester Stallone.

This I hope is the last Rambo Movie and just like his Rocky Series the characters are way to old to play the parts that were done 20 and 30 yrs ago.
The movie would have been better had there been a better plot and Rambo been played by younger person perhaps a Rambo Jr saving the senior from harms way and not 60 's something doing action scenes that would require and much young person to play. The movie is only a c to a c- or no better than a 2 star rating

If you like Rambo 1 and 2 and 3, there is plenty of action in this one. The standard machine gun and bow kills. It is graphic and brutal at times but this is one of Stalone's best movies. I really enjoyed the action but it was the same concept as the rest of the movies. GREAT MOVIE and GOOD BUY!!!

it was a pleasant and smooth transaction, it arrived on time and the DVD is still new but there is some scratches but it works perfectly in my DVD player.

The movie is great. Lots of shooting, lots of fighting. Specially towards the end. I love it. I hope there are more Rambo movies to come in the future. Lots of violence but not too gory. You can tell its just a super hero movie.

I gave this movie a "B" because I am a big fan of the series. Even though the script is terrible, the actors are not very talented and the probability of the whole story actually happening is totally bogus, you know and expect this going into the movie. You want to see it to watch John Rambo kill as many people as he can and see the blood splatter on the camera.

If you are looking to see an Oscar worthy movie, look somewhere else. But if you want John Rambo at his finest, check this movie out.

I loved the movie! Lots of action, more realalistic and graphic. Rambo plays his true self being a warrior thith lots of anger. He did a great job at the end in tying in the old rambo with the, just like he did in rocky. Oh yea, turn it way up for the action!

I ordered RAmbo (2008) DVD, the movie was in excellect condition. I love the movie, I received It in records time, I will order from the seller again.

I loved that the blood was actually shown when the bombs blew up, and when bullets hit people blood just flew in the air and sometimes body parts. Most movies aren't gory, cause of little kids or something, but this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

Rambo killing hundreds of guys by himself while the other guys kill 10-20. Just a really good movie. Must have taught them christians a lesson not to go to where a war is.

total guy flick, but very well done. i was surprised, i wasn't expecting much, especially after that new rocky movie. but this was action packed gut wrenching fun!

Great action as expected & he still kicks butt like he is still in his 20's or early 30's. Recommended for the original Rambo fan's. I give it 2 thumbs up.

The Rambo DVD disc is FAKE (COPPY), it's not an authentic disc. It is very easy to see the disc is a copy from disc cover, label and the print on the disc.

I bought this disc for "Collection" but now it turned to be a coppy disc, I have to buy another one (real one).

Seller offered the refund, but I have to send the disc back, it cost money for shipping and time, so I just buy another disc from local retail store.

Continuing a third wave of his career, Stallone revisits another character that made him famous, and John Rambo is about as far from Rocky Balboa as one can get. While Balboa is a character that embodies hope and courage, Rambo is the grim embodiment of pessimism and hopelessness. Balboa celebrates the joy of life, while Rambo celebrates death. FIRST BLOOD never really lived up to the nihilistic astmosphere of David Morrell's book, but this 4th film in series more than surpasses anything Morrell put to paper. The bleakness begins with actual news footage of the genocide in Burma (not for the squimish - contains actual beheadings and other assorted acts of violence), where Rambo delivers and eventually must rescue a group of missionaries, and then ventures down dark avenues with badguys who are mass-murdering, war-mongering rapists and pedophiles. The amount of death and carnage is jaw-dropping, and it's hard to believe this is an R-rated movie. There were more dismemberments, beheadings, and obliterated bodyparts than in any 10 horror films I've seen recently. Under director Stallone's eye, in an attempt to keep events politically accurate, even children are repeatedly slaughtered. Even when parts 2 and 3 gave into Reagan-era eccessiveness regarding violence, it would still take all 3 previous films to equal the bloodbath of RAMBO. To his credit, Stallone fuses the story with themes of redemption that brings the character full circle after 25 years and adds even more emotional weight to this politically charaged blow-em-up. This old-school action movie, that surpasses its predecessors in shear action and violence, despite the slimest storyline of the series, is definitely not for the faint of heart, and especailly not for children.

Sly might be old but the man still got it. A lot people has seen Rocky Balboa and loved the movie, but wait until Stallone gathers all of his strength and places all of his energy into making John Rambo, the fourth Rambo film of the saga. It's definitely not an upgrade from any previous Rambo installment; it's just the next one. The dialog is very 'Stallone-esque' (lots of cheesy tag lines that sometimes hit and sometimes miss) but tolerable if you keep your expectations realistic being that it's a Stallone movie.

For Rambo lovers and non-Rambo lovers the story is simple enough. John Rambo tells the story of John leading a group of mercenaries up a river, and takes them deep into the jungles of Burma to rescue a religious group that have been taken captive after a village was burned to the ground, and the villagers were brutally murdered, one by one. I really enjoyed this flick During the movie he is referred to by his name John or as "boatman." Stallone wants to distance his character from "super soldier" from the man Rambo was in the last two movies. He is no longer a hotshot. So no wonder he is not breaking teeth when he gets insulted by the leader of the mercenaries. It does not matter anymore but once the Rambo comes out he fights so ferociously as if his soul was already burning in hell for those 20 years after we last saw him in Afghanistan. As if his desperation, anger, sadness, guilt altogether explode on the screen. It's not pretty, it's not enjoyable and there is no easy way talking about it.

The character development is pretty poor with the main character jumping into a trusting relationship w/ the female lead the instant he makes eye contact without any real explanation as to why. The chemistry between these two was virtually non-existent, but this was probably due to just poor writing more so than casting issues. This may have also been a product of the very fast pace of the film as it really jumps right into the action, but it wasn't a very long movie so they could have done it a little more justice by making it somewhat believable. I think they did a better job with this in First Blood. The team really put together a shocking and graphic representation of war with all of the 'bits and pieces.' I was smiling in amazement of how realistic everything looked and ashamed at the same time for grinning at something so violent.

Still, even with the flaws above it doesn't need a continuing sequel and I think Stallone knows that. Got to pay tribute to this man because he had portrayed one of the best Action Hero's and at the same time reminded us what an action movie is all about. John Rambo came full circle with himself as well as his character's realization for his fans. Any doubt that action movies are dead? Look no further, Stallone still got it. OHH RAAHHH!!!

I believe that this is the end of a saga that began years ago, with the orignal Rambo, First Blood. As a veteran, the main character always believed in honor and truth and the treatment of veterans since or any war (should he or she lived and come home). I bought this movie and added it to my collection and have enjoyed it.