Rambo [Blu-ray]
by Sylvester Stallone
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Actor: Graham McTavish, Julie Benz, Ken Howard, Paul Schulze, Sylvester StalloneDirector: Sylvester Stallone
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: Glen MacPherson
Composer: Brian Tyler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Rambo [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: A Hero Reloaded
Summary: 4 Stars
When Sylvester Stallone announced that he was resurrecting the Italian Stallion in a new Rocky film, "Rocky Balboa", most people, fans, critics, etc., thought it was hilarious, a bad idea, and way too late. Those very people ate their words when the film came out and got great critical acclaim, and was a nice hit at the box office. "Rocky Balboa" was the perfect end for the legacy. A surprising film filled with a lot of heart and character. The best Rocky since the classic original. So, with that success, what would Sly do next?. Why, resurrect the other iconic character he has. One John Rambo. Again, just like with Rocky, the public laughed at the thought. Rambo?. Stallone pulled off the unexpected with "Rocky Balboa", but could he do it again?. Could Sly strike lightning twice?. In one way, yes. In another, not quite. We'll get to that in a bit. One way or the other, what Stallone did was deliver the biggest and bloodiest Rambo yet. As Randy from "Scream 2" says - "Carnage candy!". So, what is it all about?.
We find John Rambo catching and selling snakes in Thailand, and boating around. He is years removed from his adventures of yesteryear and is just living life. That all changes when he is approached by a group of missionaries(featuring Julie Benz, 'Darla' to us "Buffy" fans), who want him to take them on his boat into Burma, an incredibly war torn place, to help aid there. Of course, just as you would expect, it all doesn't go too well, and before long, Rambo is back in action hero mode when he has to invade the place to help rescue them.
The plot of the film may not be a giant leap, but it works. And this is Rambo, after all. Sure there has been the angry bitter vet we knew in the past films, but it all comes down to action and explosions. How much stuff does Rambo blow up?. How many people does he kill?. The very, very short answer for that is - A LOT!. Seriously, this is one of the most violent, bloody movies I think I have ever seen. I've seen a lot of stuff in my day, but even I was surprised and taken away by the sheer amount of violence in this film. It pulls no punches. The end shoot out made the storming of the beach scene in "Saving Private Ryan" look like something out of a Disney film. It is brutal. And don't ask me what the end body count is. I lost count. If that's what you want in your movies, or in your Rambo movie, then you will most definitley not be disappointed in the least. Stallone also directs the violence and the action scenes in the film with such ferociousness that it really does feel like it's actually real. Sly did a bang up job in that area. No doubt about it.
And then we comes down to the cast, the acting, and so on. Really, it's Stallone's show here people. I'm not complaining whenever Julie Benz shows up, but most of the cast is there to be kidnapped, or shoot guns. It's all about Stallone. Look, Stallone may never win the Best Actor Oscar, but he brings his Rambo and Rocky to life. He writes these films, and has directed a good many of them too. Some may mock and make fun of the Slyster, but there is no doubt that he is a very talened guy, and is probably far smarter than a lot of people give him credit for. He may be over 60 now, but would you of thought so if you didn't already know that piee of info?. I know I wouldn't. He jumps into the role full on from the get go and is just as capable and incredibly strong and buffed in this as any of the other three films in the series. He looks great. I know he could probably whip me with one hand tied behind his back. Looks and acting aside, John Rambo may not resonate with the people as much as Rocky did/does. In that regard, the movie doesn't come close to reaching the heart and spirit of "Rocky Balboa", but Rambo, the movie and character, is what it's always been. Fun, heroic, action packed, and entertaining.
"Rambo" was a welcome return. To me, Stallone succeeded with this film in the way he did with "Rocky Balboa" because, for starters, I thought it was a good movie. It delivered the goods one usually expects from a Rambo movie, and then ups the ante. It showed that yes, Stallone could do it again, both as the actor and that the character can still hold up. He was up for the challenge. He passed with flying colors in my book. Where it doesn't quite succeed like "Balboa", was that Rocky felt finished. Like it had come full circle and was done. With a Rambo 5 already being talked about, I guess Sly knew he was not done with this character. "Balboa" also hits on a more human and emotional level. The type of character work and study is not quite apparent in "Rambo". The ending of the film was very interesting. Maybe Rambo 5 will have more of what I am talking about?. It certainly ends in a way that makes a Rambo 5 intriguing.
Also, I wanted to say how deeply missed Richard Crenna is. He was a fine man and a great actor. He was as much a big part of these movies as Stallone. It seems weird not having him around. It was nice that he was shown in a flashback scene. At least they got him in there somehow.
Rambo 5?. Bring it on!
DVD Review: You Can Be Stronger Than John J. Rambo
Summary: 1 Stars
One of the stupidest, most juvenile movies I have ever had the misfortune to behold. So bad I clicked it off 20 minutes into it. Why do they bother to make movies like this? Training videos for angry soldier-wannabes perhaps.
If you believe it's "better to die for something than die for nothing" then it probably means you don't have much of a life. Certainly not one you care about.
That's too bad because your LIFE is your opportunity to do something *good* in this world. Making more fear and violence is harmful to everyone, including your self, your soul. So why spend time and energy in that direction? Don't you see it's better to live FOR something? Rambo talks tough but what he says is wrong. It takes much MORE strength to love and forgive than it does to hate and to kill.
Don't waste time with movies like this. They are designed to feed only the worst in people.
DVD Review: i love violence like this!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend lent this to me after i heard mixed reviews of it, i went home put it in, grabbed a beer and sat down to work on bills with my wife while watching this. almost immediately, she coward down (ocassionally peeking an eye) and all i could say was DAAAAAMMMMMMNNNN!!!!! i could believe the insane amount of violence in this movie. it's a fine story line, nothing spectacular, but jesus christ, if you like gore (tons and tons of gore) especially inflicted on bad guys then you will love this movie. the absurd amount of violence makes this movie insanely intense and gripping. do yourself a favor and tell your girlfriend, wife or mom to go out for the night and watch this eyes open.DVD Review: A simply told sory of good versus evil with barrels of fake blood and great special effcts.
Summary: 5 Stars
Many years ago, a then famous novelist named John Hersey wrote an anti-war novel about WWII pilot Buzz Marrow. Marrow loved war and didn't want see his war end. It was because of people like Marrow, the war lovers, that wars existed maintained Hersey.
Well, some people are born to be soldiers and we Americans are much better off for the Pattons, Washingtons, Grants and many others whose names are not famous, but who believed enough in the nation to put their lives at risk.
Relatively few people have ever read the original David Morrell novel "First Blood" that gave birth to John Rambo, a man for whom the Vietnam war never ended. Sylvester Stallone turned Rambo into a fire breathing patriot and the world (of cinema and American culture, at least) has never been the same.
A much older Rambo lives now in Southeast Asia. (Hasrd to believe that Stallone is 62!) He captures snakes and runs a rickety old river boat for a living. Rambo is still the very conflicted man, a man born for war trying to live peacefully.
Some missionaries - caricatured as hopelessly naive, optimistic and frankly lacking in rationality - want Stallone to take them into Burma. The film opens with a montage of the political and military violence in Burma to provide a bare minimum storyline for the film to rest on.
John Rambo wants no part of them: he asks if they know that Burma is a war zone and if they have weapons. Yes to the first question, no to the second and Rambo says no. Later, the fiancee of one of the missionaries persuades him to take them. Rambo's conflict comes to the surface when they encounter a boatload of river pirates. He tries everything to placate the pirates and when then doesn't work . . . well, he is John Rambo, isn't he?
Do I have to tell you that the missionaries are captured by the Burmese military in an orgy of mayhem, violence, murder, sadism and rape? Do I have to tell you that this movie obviously had a huge budget for special effects? Do you really think that a gunshot wound in this film looks like dab of ketchup on a shirt? Nope. Limbs fly, heads shatter and blood flows by the barrel. These bad guys are really, truly bad.
Another missionary approaches John Rambo and asks him to take a team of mercenaries to rescue the captured missionaries. Rambo refuses; Rambo then accepts his date with destiny.
The mercenaries are a rag tag group who try to goad the silent, taciturn Rambo. When they disembark to start on their rescue mission, they tell Rambo, the "boat man" to stay with the boat while they go do men's work.
When the mercenaries encounter some bad guys, they sure glad that Rambo tagged along behind them. After saving them, Rambo now becomes the leader.
The rest of the film is the rescue and the race to safety.
Lots of gore, lots of mayhem, lots of great, adrenaline stimulating action.
This is a classic American movie. The lone gunman against hordes of bad guys. Rambo is smarter and meaner than a million zillion bad guys - that's the joy of movies, isn't it?
This is a movie for people who like action movies. The storyline is paper thin. The Rambo character is one we are familiar and comfortable with. If you didn't like Rambo before, you won't like Rambo now. The other characters are all cartoons.
None of that matters. What matters is the basic ethos: good guy faces impossible odds - good guy wins. For the benefit of the foreign markets that are so important to the financial success of American films, there isn't any flag waving. But there is a lot of action, a lot of violence, great special effects.
In short, a very satisfying movie for those who like this kind of film. Others might be well advised to stay away.
Jerry
DVD Review: RAMBO: No Agida Here
Summary: 3 Stars
Viewers have come to expect Rambo as an action character that at base hides some searing memories that drive him on. In RAMBO, Sylvester Stallone continues in the fourth go round as the emotionally wounded Vietnam vet who tours the world's hot spots encountering gore as he goes. In the first two of the series, the "hidden" or sublimated Rambo self shows itself often enough to engage the viewer on multiple levels. By the time Stallone hits this latest reincarnation of a killing machine, he has very nearly dropped all pretense as to motivation. There are one or two disjointed flashbacks that hint at the supressed turmoil but such scenes are thrown in merely to give a brief respite from the ubiquitous bloodletting. The deepest that Stallone allows Rambo to emote is when his inner voice acknowledges that he is indeed a killing machine, which in this film is the plot around which the external events of a rescue of missionaries are but a periphery. These missionaries are total humanists, pacifists, and generally stand for everything that Rambo despises. Even when he saves them from a scurvy bunch of Burmese river pirates by killing the brigands with a pistol, they reward his actions by suggesting that he did not have to do that at all. Stallone's grimace at this point was his emotional highlight. The bulk of the movie is to set up the Burmese pirate army as the slimiest horde of impotent sadists I have ever seen. They enter a peaceful village to loot, rape, and kill. They even kill for sport, betting on the outcome as to how long it will take to kill helpless villagers. The camera spends several minutes merely focusing on a drunken orgy in which the pirates are pictured as beasts who fully deserve their upcoming fate. The last half shows Rambo dispensing his own brand of frontier justice. He uses his bow and arrow from RAMBO II to skewer a half dozen. He takes his finely honed Bowie knife to disembowel their leader. He uses a captured machine gun to blow away scores of thugs in gory closeups of exploding body parts in a manner that seems borrowed from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. At sixty, Stallone yet possesses a cut and ripped physique that well matches his grainy etched face. We do not doubt for a moment his ability to do exactly what we see him do. The only moments in which we suspend our disbelief are the rare moments when he acts as a normal human being. But the other 99% of this RAMBO movie leaves him to do what we expect. RAMBO Part IV is around the corner.
Description of Rambo [Blu-ray]
The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by missionaries to protect them during a humanitarian aid effort on behalf of the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After the missionaries are taken prisoner by Burmese soldiers Rambo gets a second impossible job: rescue the missionaries in the midst of a civil war.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/HEROES Rating:?R UPC:?031398232995 Manufacturer No:?23299If you've been wondering what ever happened to ex-Green Beret superwarrior John Rambo since he singlehandedly shot up a Pacific Northwest town (First Blood, 1982), returned to the jungles of 'Nam to free U.S. POWs held long after war's end (Rambo: First Blood Part II, 1985), and interrupted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan long enough to blow lots of stuff up and rescue his old commandant from the Reds (Rambo III, 1988), then Rambo (2008) is for you. Without so much as a IV to dilute the brand name, Rambo--which is what most of us called the second, most iconic film in the series--may aspire to open a new era for a pop legend. But it's a thoroughly mechanical attempt to reanimate a franchise that, absent the anger, frustration, and self-loathing of the post-Vietnam years, has no meaning or purpose. For some time now Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has been putt-putting along the Thai-Burmese border in a longboat, catching exotic snakes to sell. As for the 60-year civil war in Burma between the brutal government and the Karen independence movement, he ignores it. Enter a party of American missionaries whose dewy blond spokeswoman (Dexter's Julie Benz) asks Rambo to haul them upriver so that they can bring medical aid to the insurgents. After the requisite number of monosyllabic refusals, he does. Soon afterward the do-gooders are in a world of hurt, and he's summoned to lead a squad of mercenaries on a rescue mission.
As storytelling, the latest Rambo is the most bare-bones of the bunch. Rambo has little to say, so it's especially galling that Stallone, as director and co-writer, obliges him to have essentially the same conversation at three different points (the final distillation: "Live for nothing or die for something"). The Burmese army goons seem in competition to commit the most hideous atrocity (e.g., child skull-crushing underfoot), the better to justify the eventual, lovingly protracted spectacle of them being eviscerated by high-powered weaponry. Although shot in Thailand, the movie has mostly been photographed in brown, reducing any particular sense of place but, perhaps, perversely increasing our gratitude for the splashes of purple whenever hot metal tatters flesh. --Richard T. Jameson
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