Just another of Sylvester Stallone's recent films that seems to scream out: Stallone has a fixation of fighting to be immortalized as a non-aging 'dinosaur' character! At 62, he dyes his hair in raven-red, swings, punches and kicks as if he's still 25, and, of course, just as egoistic in trying to preserve his Rambo's ancient avenging and violent streak and tactics. Oh yes, for all that youthful image that Stallone sets out to project, there's one thing he has failed to do: prevent the portrayal of his creative process and imagination as having aged over the 20 years. Even Julie Benz's sweet damsel-in-distress doesn't to help erase the image of macho Rambo's aging years.
Yep, there's nothing refreshingly new to this Rambo's revengeful fantasy, nor in Rambo's exhibition of his fighting skills and tactics. He keeps exploding in his killing spree, whipping out his weapon to blast opponents into multi-body parts - just like we've seen Rambo doing, flick after flick. And ferociously evil foreign government militia, attacking scared villagers through fields, littered with land mine with the unlucky ones being blown to fragments? Nothing refreshingly new, but can be considered as pretty stunted in creative imagination. Hey, we are seeing this same old scenario being repeated in so many war flicks. Unless Stallone actually believes that the audience do have short-memories and believe they are seen creatively new spins! By the way, are those Asian militia thugs the leftovers from the Vietnam wars in Stallone's imagination? Ah yes, nicely flavoured with Asian jungle atmosphere? Of course, it would be rather tricky for a Rambo, with aging brain-cells to flex his brawn and weapons in cities, cramming with spy-cams and cam-detectors. That would take better brains, like James Bond or Jason Bourne, than guns and muscles alone, to defeat any ugly and vicious militia government.
This film would have been fine, if seen in the 1960s. During contemporary days, it comes through as a very predictable film with nothing that's refreshingly imaginative or creative. It's like paying precious dollars to see repeated action scenes from other flicks. And that's pretty insulting to the hard-core film audience!
Yep, there's nothing refreshingly new to this Rambo's revengeful fantasy, nor in Rambo's exhibition of his fighting skills and tactics. He keeps exploding in his killing spree, whipping out his weapon to blast opponents into multi-body parts - just like we've seen Rambo doing, flick after flick. And ferociously evil foreign government militia, attacking scared villagers through fields, littered with land mine with the unlucky ones being blown to fragments? Nothing refreshingly new, but can be considered as pretty stunted in creative imagination. Hey, we are seeing this same old scenario being repeated in so many war flicks. Unless Stallone actually believes that the audience do have short-memories and believe they are seen creatively new spins! By the way, are those Asian militia thugs the leftovers from the Vietnam wars in Stallone's imagination? Ah yes, nicely flavoured with Asian jungle atmosphere? Of course, it would be rather tricky for a Rambo, with aging brain-cells to flex his brawn and weapons in cities, cramming with spy-cams and cam-detectors. That would take better brains, like James Bond or Jason Bourne, than guns and muscles alone, to defeat any ugly and vicious militia government.
This film would have been fine, if seen in the 1960s. During contemporary days, it comes through as a very predictable film with nothing that's refreshingly imaginative or creative. It's like paying precious dollars to see repeated action scenes from other flicks. And that's pretty insulting to the hard-core film audience!