If you want to see a straight forward, no nonsense action flick, then the next time you log in to your movie download service, put Rambo on the queue. Rambo 4. It's just called Rambo even though it's the fourth in the series. It goes like this: First Blood, First Blood Part 2: Rambo, Rambo 3, and then just Rambo. It's confusing, there's no telling why they did it like that. Why not just First Blood, Rambo 2, Rambo 3 and Rambo 4? Well there's no telling. But, Rambo is sort of a return to the roots of the series.
The movie is simple and straight forward. Rambo meets a woman he likes, she gets kidnapped, he kills all the bad guys to save her. Rambo 2 and 3 went the opposite directions, making the stories too complicated and in the end suffering for it. Those movies felt like bloated Hollywood excess, Rambo is raw, dirty, gritty, lean and relatively low budget.
The best of the series is still First Blood. First Blood was a very human, real movie, focusing on the disillusionment of the Vietnam Veterans upon returning home from the war. The second and third movies in the series then were sort of insults to the original. While Rambo is certainly an action movie, it also fits some social commentary into the proceedings.
The film attempts to do for the Burmese people what First Blood did for veterans: Tell the truth about what they're experiencing. Like First Blood, this one is also somewhat excessive and over the top, in that no Vietnam veteran ever really beat up an entire town's worth of police officers, just as one man with a knife and a pistol could never really do as much damage as Rambo does the guerilla soldiers in this film. However, the truth is in the emotional content of both films.
The movie took courage to create, having been filmed on the outskirts of Burma. Stallone received death threats from the very same militants he vilifies in the film. The end result is that the film actually did succeed in turning international attention towards the problems being faced by the people of Burma.
The way the action is filmed is interesting. Rambo kills hundreds of bad guys, but it's all shot in a sort of a realistic style that really sets it apart from the usual excess of action films. It feels, if not quite real, at least real enough that it doesn't feel cartoony, it doesn't trivialize violence, it actually deals with it head on.
The movie really develops in a pure way. It's just action. A woman is kidnapped. Rambo saves her. The end. In this simple structure there's an enormous amount of depth to what you can do with the action and characters. In fact, without a lot of plot getting in the way, the movie can really get down to the heart of what the STORY is all about.
It's exciting seeing Stallone on the comeback trail after Rocky Balboa. After a string of flops, he finally took a moment to remember what it is he's good at and to try and excel at it. So between this, Rocky Balboa, and The Expendables, he's really knocking them out of the park on a regular basis over the last few years in cinema. - 40723
The movie is simple and straight forward. Rambo meets a woman he likes, she gets kidnapped, he kills all the bad guys to save her. Rambo 2 and 3 went the opposite directions, making the stories too complicated and in the end suffering for it. Those movies felt like bloated Hollywood excess, Rambo is raw, dirty, gritty, lean and relatively low budget.
The best of the series is still First Blood. First Blood was a very human, real movie, focusing on the disillusionment of the Vietnam Veterans upon returning home from the war. The second and third movies in the series then were sort of insults to the original. While Rambo is certainly an action movie, it also fits some social commentary into the proceedings.
The film attempts to do for the Burmese people what First Blood did for veterans: Tell the truth about what they're experiencing. Like First Blood, this one is also somewhat excessive and over the top, in that no Vietnam veteran ever really beat up an entire town's worth of police officers, just as one man with a knife and a pistol could never really do as much damage as Rambo does the guerilla soldiers in this film. However, the truth is in the emotional content of both films.
The movie took courage to create, having been filmed on the outskirts of Burma. Stallone received death threats from the very same militants he vilifies in the film. The end result is that the film actually did succeed in turning international attention towards the problems being faced by the people of Burma.
The way the action is filmed is interesting. Rambo kills hundreds of bad guys, but it's all shot in a sort of a realistic style that really sets it apart from the usual excess of action films. It feels, if not quite real, at least real enough that it doesn't feel cartoony, it doesn't trivialize violence, it actually deals with it head on.
The movie really develops in a pure way. It's just action. A woman is kidnapped. Rambo saves her. The end. In this simple structure there's an enormous amount of depth to what you can do with the action and characters. In fact, without a lot of plot getting in the way, the movie can really get down to the heart of what the STORY is all about.
It's exciting seeing Stallone on the comeback trail after Rocky Balboa. After a string of flops, he finally took a moment to remember what it is he's good at and to try and excel at it. So between this, Rocky Balboa, and The Expendables, he's really knocking them out of the park on a regular basis over the last few years in cinema. - 40723
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