Thursday 24 March 2011

Rambo (Sylvester Stallone, 2008)

As James Bond spends an inordinate amount of time underwater, so with Rambo and jungles. Stallone claimed that it took this long for another sequel because of having to find a worthy contemporary adversary. For that read: a contemporary jungle-based adversary.
So, Burma it is, with our by now unfeasibly ossified and mumbling hero reluctantly taking a bunch of do-gooders up river and before long showing all and sundry how wholescale slaughter is done, dressed up with Stallone's own brand of pensive aphorism ("Live for nothing, or die for something"). Meanwhile, with the Burmese Government forces serving only as target practice between bouts of cartoon villainy, the educational level of the enterprise is limited to revealing that where most soldiers merely die when hit, in Burma they actually explode into mush.

3/10

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