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82
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82
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82
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81
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80
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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70
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70
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70
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69
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63
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45
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42
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38
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35
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28
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28
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22
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16
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Rambo
Lionsgate
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language
Starring
Sylvester Stallone,
Julie Benz,
Paul Schulze,
Matthew Marsden,
Graham McTavish,
Rey Gallegos,
Tim Kang,
and
Jake LaBotz
Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region. That all changes when missionaries are captured by the Burmese Army. Pastor Arthur Marsh turns to Rambo for help. Although the United States military trained him to be a lethal super soldier in Vietnam, decades later Rambo's reluctance for violence and conflict are palpable, his scars faded, yet visible. However, the lone warrior knows what he must do. (Lionsgate)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Drama
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Sylvester Stallone
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Sylvester Stallone
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 27, 2008
Theatrical: January 25, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Germany |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
A straight-ahead exercise in brutality.

70
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A sort of parody "Apocalypse Now," complete with listless coochie dancers entertaining the Burmese troops, the movie finds its own heart of darkness once Rambo drops the doctors in Burma.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Moved to take charge by something like chivalry, Rambo hits his stride in the film's second half, meting out justice in an unjust world and ultimately the movie works best when warbling its out-of-tune greatest hits.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Rambo teaches that fighting sucks, good intentions can be futile, and coalitions of the willing are a charade: A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
In the Rambo canon, where does this one fit? The tone is closer to "First Blood" but the body count is more "Rambo III." No matter how one dices and slices this new Rambo, the first one in 20 years, it will likely please fans of the long-in-the-tooth series.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The result is the farthest thing from a bland, spineless sequel: It's a brutal, insanely excessive successor to grindhouse pictures of yore.

60
Slate
Dana Stevens
Rambo combines an unapologetic return to the grand action-movie tradition of blowing shit up (one explosion is so big, it leaves behind its own miniature mushroom cloud) with a "Saw"-era interest in close-ups of human viscera.

60
Variety
Brian Lowry
Stallone (who looks fit but mostly keeps his shirt on) has no intention of bogging the action down, but it's still a notably cheerless exercise, without knowing winks or stabs (pardon the expression) at humor. It is in all respects, rather, a completely workmanlike effort.

60
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The movie does have its own kind of blockheaded poetry.

60
LA Weekly
Jim Ridley
Gorier, meaner and uglier than anything Sylvester Stallone has made before, and as such damnably effective in rousing your blood lust, this wind-up groin kicker of a movie seems initially as wary of being pulled back into a dirty job as its reluctant hero.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Rambo works best as a pure action movie devoted to delivering the cheapest kicks imaginable--and to a much lesser extent, to bringing attention to human-rights violations and genocide in Asia.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This muttering boatman seems to have lost his old-time heroism. No longer is Rambo killing for a cause, but for kicks. And his portentous blather, even by Rambo standards, becomes unintentionally hilarious.

50
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The 61-year-old Stallone would deserve a measure of respect for pulling Rambo off, appalling as it is, but this Fangoria-worthy circus of horrors also features footage of actual Burmese atrocities.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Like a lost recording by the Beatles, Sylvester Stallone's Rambo arrives with its feet planted firmly in the past, a reminder of a time when Stallone, Chuck Norris and other wooden soldiers of the big screen filled multiplexes with the floor-shaking thunder of trivialized war.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's 90 minutes of flying, dismembered limbs and explosions of blood, but give the man credit. Stallone can do action. If you want action and nothing but, here it is.

50
Premiere
Eric Alt
Rambo is surprisingly effective as an action movie precisely because the villains seem truly dangerous and the "mission" truly a death wish.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
In short, No. 4 is one big snore.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The movie is neither cathartic nor entertaining. The action scenes (and there are many of them) feel mechanized and calculated.

40
Empire
Roberto Sadovski
Rambo could have been a satisfying romp - wherein bad dialogue and cardboard characters can be forgiven - but for the sin of making the main man step to the sidelines in favour of charisma-free fillers. Bad move, Sly...

38
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Needlessly violent? No, Rambo is needfully violent. Johnny R. is a man constructed of violence.

38
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Rambo isn't dull. It is, however, often murkily directed, a real shortcoming in an action movie. In the big rescue-the-prisoners sequence, it's very hard to keep track of who is doing what to whom where.

30
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
There will be blood in the ultraviolent Rambo, a movie that depicts both heinous acts and righteous reckoning with equal degrees of flying body parts and arterial sprays.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The orgy of violence, as ghastly as in any video game, should go a long way toward erasing whatever goodwill Stallone earned with his sentimental "Rocky Balboa."

25
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There is a blessed dearth of dialogue, but much of it is unintentionally hilarious.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
Can anyone still be rooting for Rocky or Rambo?

0
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
With its first-person-shooter perspective and gun-andrun narrative, this one’s for the PlayStation crowd. It’s not a movie. It’s an adrenaline pump and purveyor of raw carnage.


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