SON OF RAMBOW is a light and engaging little rites-of-passage tale set in the 1980s. The youthful protagonists are a pair of mixed-up kids entranced by a pirate video of the Stallone hit FIRST BLOOD, so they decide to shoot their own version of Rambo in the woods. The story gets complicated by the intervention of various other oddball characters, including a flamboyant French exchange student and a Christian sect. I was pleased to see that as a buddy movie this has no needless romance tacked onto the story. It's best watched to enjoy the breakout talents of Will Poulter, who, as with THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, is the best thing in the movie and quite the superb actor even at an early age.
Review of Son of Rambow
