Rambo’s Back More Violent than Ever

By Sarah Vasques
18:47, January 26th 2008
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Rambo’s Back More Violent than Ever

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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