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It’s been 20 years
since we last saw John Rambo in action and as the movie starts he’s trapping
snakes in Thailand
for a freak show and renovates old boats. It seems like everything is too good
to be true, but the calm of the picture is suddenly broken when a pack of
missionaries pays him a visit one day, hoping he can help them to commandeer a
boat to lead them into Burmanese territory. Their intention is to help the
victims of Burma’s civil war between Burmese troops and rebels of the Karen
tribe, offering them medical supplies and Bibles.
Rambo reluctantly
agrees to help them, mainly because he’s swept way by the group’s lone female,
Julie Benz. And here’s the whole story starts. It’s not long before Burmese
pirates surround Rambo’s boat the missionaries being held hostage. However, the
old soldier’s killer instinct resurfaces, leaving the missionaries astonished,
but still alive.
If anyone likes action
and nothing but action, this is a good movie to see. Ninety-three full minutes
of flying, dismembered limbs and explosion of blood are offered by the
61-year-old main actor, director and co-writer or the script, Sylvester
Stallone.
The 50 million dollar
movie, “Rambo” which hit the silver screen across the globe on January 25,
provides us with violence, described as senseless and horribly grotesque. Much
of the violent imagery is filmed off speed to give the effect that even the
camera is being affected by the bullets in the air.
“How violent is Sylvester
Stallone’s new ‘Rambo’ film? Put it this away: If you were to make it a
drinking game and then a slug of boose each time someone buys the farm, you’d
either become monstrously drunk or possibly dead yourself from alcohol
poisoning by the time the end credits roll. Beheadings, disembowelment,
exploding bodies, decomposing bodies, raping, torturing, hanging – you name the
most depraved level of man’s inhumanity to man ( and woman and children) and
it’s most likely represented onscreen,” Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Mike
Thomas wrote.
Continuing on this
idea, there are a total of 236 “kills” during the 93-long “Rambo 4,” an average
of 2.59 each 60 seconds. The previous Rambo Film, “Rambo 3,” come out in 1988,
featured 132 deaths – an average of 1.3 per minute.
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