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Rambo (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 134 Fresh: 48  Rotten:86 Average Rating: 4.8/10
 
Consensus: Sylvester Stallone knows how to stage action sequences, but the movie's uneven pacing and excessive violence (even for the franchise) is more nauseating than entertaining.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Theatrical Release: Jan 25, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $42,724,402

Synopsis: Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (SYLVESTER STALLONE) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages... Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (SYLVESTER STALLONE) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) 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 a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (JULIE BENZ) and Michael Bennett (PAUL SCHULZE) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers...

Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh (KEN HOWARD) finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. He tells Rambo he's mortgaged his home and raised money from his congregation to hire mercenaries to get the missionaries, who are being held captive by the Burmese army. 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...

Sylvester Stallone writes, directs and stars as RAMBO, filmed on location in and around Chiang Mai, Thailand. Also starring are Julie Benz (Dexter), Paul Schulze (The Sopranos), Matthew Marsden (Resident Evil: Extinction, Black Hawk Down), Graham McTavish (HBO's Rome), Rey Gallegos (American Wedding), Tim Kang ("Third Watch"), Jake La Botz (Ghost World), Maung Maung Khin and Ken Howard. RAMBO is produced by Avi Lerner, Kevin King Templeton and John Thompson. Executive producers Randall Emmett, George Furla. Executive Producers Jon Feltheimer, Peter Block, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein. Executive Producers Andreas Thiesmeyer, Josef Lautenschlager. Executive Producers Danny Dimbort, Boaz Davidson, Trevor Short. --© Lionsgate
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Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Screenwriter: Sylvester Stallone, Art Monterastelli
Producer: Sylvester Stallone, Avi Lerner, John Thompson, Kevin King
Composer: Brian Tyler

DVD Info

Release:

May 27, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • note: This version includes an iTunes digital copy, playable on iPods and other Apple devices.
  • Region 1
  • 2-Disc Set - Keep Case
  • Disc 1: RAMBO: Feature Presentation
  • Widescreen- 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Sylvester Stallone - Director/Star
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurettes - 1. "A Hero's Welcome: Release and Reaction"
  • 2. "A Score to Settle: The Music of RAMBO"
  • 3. "It's a Long Road: Resurrection of an Icon"
  • 4. "Legacy of Despair: The Struggle in Burma"
  • 5. "The Art of War: Completing RAMBO"
  • 6. "The Weaponry of RAMBO"
  • Disc 2: Digital Copy

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There is next to no dialogue in the film's final 30 minutes %u2013 just a torrent of killing, blood and violence. The film's target market of young testosterone-charged males will no doubt be eager to immerse themselves in this blood-fest of stunts and sp

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Those going in knowing what to expect will likely welcome this send-off

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02/04/08
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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3/4

It's not the perfect Rambo film I was hoping for, but it was a pretty entertaining one.

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07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine
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Now we are no longer observing the icon... we are the icon.

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06/14/08
Keith Uhlich
UGO
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3.5/5

I know my credibility could take a hit here, but I am man enough to admit that I enjoyed watching Rambo once again don his famous headband and shoot enemies with his trusty bow and arrow.

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05/20/08
Adam Tobias
Watertown Daily Times
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1.5/5

(Rambo) really only has 3-4 minutes of redeeming entertainment.

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05/17/08
Kevin McCarthy
BDK Reviews (CBS Radio)
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Suspiciously wrinkle-resistant Stallone in comeback, a Rambo in serious need of anger management and not too shy to get into a little ripping out of throats with bare hands and selective disemboweling too.

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05/13/08
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze
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4/5

We need John Rambo. In an age of mistrust and bureaucratic cowardice, it is comforting to know there is a hulking great protector to keep the world in check.

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05/13/08
Chris Laverty
Mansized
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2/5

The film does for the Myanmar genocide what I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry did for same-sex marriage...

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05/01/08
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC
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Luckily, Rambo's years away from war haven't dulled his ability to rip out a man's throat with his bare hands.

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04/15/08
Mike Sage
Peterborough This Week
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3.5/4

'Rambo' is pure adrenaline, a frenzied rush into the heart of a jungle where the prevailing darkness is far more horrific than anything Kurtz could have imagined.

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04/09/08
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner
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However you parse the character's evolution, Rambo the film shows a peculiar understanding of changes in the industry.

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03/21/08
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
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2/5

Quando comemorei o retorno de Stallone à boa forma artística, não imaginei que empregaria sua recém-reconquistada influência para realizar algo tão abominável quanto este Rambo IV.

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03/01/08
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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5/10

While Rambo is certainly not for everyone, it succeeds at being exactly what it sets out to be %u2014 a nostalgic, actionpacked, gore-splattered ode to the antihero of a bygone era.

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02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
Colorado Springs Gazette
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2.25/5

I love Stallone, but this isn't any fun. I'm also concerned because he's starting to look like the Cloverfield monster. No more HGH!

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02/25/08
Bob Grimm
Tucson Weekly
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The hero’s iconic inertia is photographed against molten skies or Judgment Day sunsets, providing moments of mythic repose between the pell-mell battle scenes.

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02/22/08
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
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3/5

Makes First Blood look like Bambi.

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02/22/08
Sun Online
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Little more than a cartoon, Rambo caters only for those still smitten by the rat-a-tat of continuous gunfire.

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02/22/08
David Gritten
Guardian [UK]
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At times there is something weirdly comforting about the film's no-frills, fundamentalist zeal.

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02/22/08
Xan Brooks
Guardian [UK]
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The fourth and, amazingly, the most meat-headed adventure yet of the killing machine John Rambo can safely be recommended to people who hate intelligence and love exploding body parts.

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02/22/08
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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