So I caught "Rambo" with the gang...
Spoiler warning:
People die in this movie. In ways that have possibly never been filmed before.
For those who just came out from under their rocks, the "Rambo" series of movies has always been something cute and almost comical in their bloodshed. The ever infamous gag of the "Rambo Clip" was born from this movie, a mystical device that, once loaded into a gun, provides that gun with limitless ammunition, allowing John Rambo to obliterate the entire population of Vietnam without even pausing in his ballistic genocide. Not to mention his supply of nuclear-tipped arrows and his magical LAW rocket that decided not to incinerate him and his friends at the end of whichever Rambo movie it was at the time.
Dear reader, today's Rambo movie is unlike any previous Rambo movie. I would even say it is not your 'grandfather's Rambo'. Allow me to explain.
I will start by saying that this is not a movie for the lighthearted. This is the single most violent film I have ever seen in my life. Period. If they made a movie called "Grand Theft Auto: Killing Dudes for Real" and made it as bloody as the game it was based off of, it'd literally be 1% as violent as "Rambo".
This movie shocked me. It nearly made me cry. The atrocities depicted in this movie will haunt you, and to think that these conditions exist in this world today is the true theme of this movie.
John Rambo is a broken man, but when shit needs to get done, as they said in the 80's... "Get me Rambo!" and then the explosions and the violence begins.
John Rambo dons his trademark bandanna, grabs his man-slaying bow and arrow, but leaves his nuclear arsenal at home this time, as he does what he does best: Kill dudes. You will see blood and gore and atrocities and horror that you may not expect to see on film, but this movie is intense beyond review. Any critic that calls this film some 'shallow sequel' is an idiot, while any that call this nothing more then just another action movie obviously walked into the wrong movie.
Would I recommend "Rambo" to others? Most definitely! Though, I would let them know what it is they were walking into. They're walking into Burma, dear reader. A hellhole of the third-world that many would wish they could just erase off the map and leave it be.
People die in this movie. In ways that have possibly never been filmed before.
For those who just came out from under their rocks, the "Rambo" series of movies has always been something cute and almost comical in their bloodshed. The ever infamous gag of the "Rambo Clip" was born from this movie, a mystical device that, once loaded into a gun, provides that gun with limitless ammunition, allowing John Rambo to obliterate the entire population of Vietnam without even pausing in his ballistic genocide. Not to mention his supply of nuclear-tipped arrows and his magical LAW rocket that decided not to incinerate him and his friends at the end of whichever Rambo movie it was at the time.
Dear reader, today's Rambo movie is unlike any previous Rambo movie. I would even say it is not your 'grandfather's Rambo'. Allow me to explain.
I will start by saying that this is not a movie for the lighthearted. This is the single most violent film I have ever seen in my life. Period. If they made a movie called "Grand Theft Auto: Killing Dudes for Real" and made it as bloody as the game it was based off of, it'd literally be 1% as violent as "Rambo".
This movie shocked me. It nearly made me cry. The atrocities depicted in this movie will haunt you, and to think that these conditions exist in this world today is the true theme of this movie.
John Rambo is a broken man, but when shit needs to get done, as they said in the 80's... "Get me Rambo!" and then the explosions and the violence begins.
John Rambo dons his trademark bandanna, grabs his man-slaying bow and arrow, but leaves his nuclear arsenal at home this time, as he does what he does best: Kill dudes. You will see blood and gore and atrocities and horror that you may not expect to see on film, but this movie is intense beyond review. Any critic that calls this film some 'shallow sequel' is an idiot, while any that call this nothing more then just another action movie obviously walked into the wrong movie.
Would I recommend "Rambo" to others? Most definitely! Though, I would let them know what it is they were walking into. They're walking into Burma, dear reader. A hellhole of the third-world that many would wish they could just erase off the map and leave it be.