Alternate Title:
Rambo-Forearms
Ram-Bore
Ram-Bollocks
This film had such a weak story line it could only be strung out for an hour thirty one minutes. It basically concerns a group of christian missionaries being held hostage in Burma, and Rambo, along with a group of mercenaries, being contracted by a Pastor to free them.
Rambo 4 is in stark contrast to the other Rambos where he muscle posed his way to self glory. In this film, however, he must have been too self conscious of his love handles and sausage veins that the central focus of Rambo, and his character as a whole for that matter, was his forearms.
The Burmese soldiers were portrayed as verminous killing scum who feed live people to pigs, and Sly even makes further propaganda swipes at Burmese generals by portraying the one in this movie as a raper of young boys.
The killing is so gratuitous and lustful, you wonder what kind of sick, sado-masterbatory audience could enjoy this snuff movie. Rambo manages to effortlessly kill everybody in every imaginable way, and would have encountered more resistance had the Burmese army been replaced by a bunch of grannies armed with knitting needles and balls of wool. And where the hell he manages to find , in the middle of the jungle, some kind of huge, thermo-nuclear device to detonate at short notice is any one's guess.
This abomination of a movie further insult by trying to add believability to this sado-wet dream, by allowing Rambo to get a slight nick from a bullet to his shoulder in the last minutes of the film, as he's mopping up the final remaining Burmese 'skittle' soldiers.
It was a pity Rambo's Kernel is no longer alive as he was the real star of the Rambo franchise and provided the only hint of class and proper acting.
Anyone claiming this was just a bit of fun should watch again the actual footage of the suffering of the Burmese people shown at the beginning of this film, appreciate how Sly has tried to glorify himself at their expense, and then should proceed straight to the doctors and have their brains checked out for advanced syphilis.
VERDICT: RAM-pant BO-llocks
14 comments:
First thing I read this morning Moriarte and I was laughing alot. Very well written review
Fuck you moriarte. That movie was awesome and you're just pissed off that you got a broom shoved up your ass at the ymca at age seven. Sly could kill you with his thoughts, but he'd rather shoot a thousand rounds of lead through your dumb face because that would suck for you more.
Well…I'm guessing you've had more than a broom or two up yours…anyway your biggest mistake was saying Rambo could kill me with his thoughts when everyone knows he doesn't get any, although he can manage a grunt occasionaly,as seen in this terriblel film! Moriarte recommends sending tough talking Rambo4 fans to Burma, now that they are all so hard , and see how long it is before they wet their pants like the little pansies they are..
Moriarte, you obviously have no idea why people choose to go and see Rambo. The storyline associated with these movies has always been secondary and unimportant when compared to the violence, which is what viewers are really after. And did Rambo 4 let them down in this respect? I think not. As for Rambo being too self concius about his body, you have got to be joking. look at the muscular capacity of this stallion, then look at your self. Pumped up with steroids or not, he is a beast.
Rambo 4 is an amazing movie.
Your right...I have no idea why people choose to see this movie, other than to laugh at how bad it was. As for violence and action being of secondary importance to the syoryline then this accounts for the reason why 99.9% of films from the US are so unimaginative and gross thesedays...sad really. As for his body, well Rambo 3 was all shirt off but in Rocky Balboa he was even too embarrased to show his chest in the ring behind his boxing gloves.
Fair play though...to all the girls out there who are so in love with Sly and his puppy dog eyes that they'd think anything he did was lovable!
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I fully intend to. Going by the motto of "NO publicity is bad publicity" I don't see why it might be a bloodthirsty and sadistic grand guignol of killings in some people's estimation as any reason not to go and see it. Provided it's all done in a stylish way that a big budget allows so that the aesthetics of violence are well realised, then it's a recommendation.
I loved this movie. The story isnt solid but you dont have all day to set the scene just an hour or so to tell an entire story.
I dont feel he used the suffering of that country to glorify himself but he used his movie influance to bring attention to the suffering of those people. Most of my friends and family have no idea the horos they have faced over there and most have done some reaserch into it since. Stalone him self even stated he wanted to draw attention to what is realy happening. That was his main purpose for the screan play. I do want to say that i used to be a Stalone fan but not so much anymore. His liberal antigun stance has put him on my to hell with list and i saw this movie just becouse i wanted to see how close he got with the fake footage. After working in that area for a year and seeing the rotted bodies i can tell you The movie is totaly fake. It isnt even close to the animalistic way they treat themselves and other. normaly when you find a body its not just shot but been mutilated beyond belief. Women children men, noone is immune to the death delt by the military there. The am
azing part is they do it to themselves. Their own people. I guess the fact that heroin is the countries main money maker and keeps its military busy by gaurding it they need a way to release. Anyways, I realy enjoyed the movie. I cant wait for the DVD release. if anyone has trouble with teh violence they need to rethink why these movies are made haha.
Thank goodness someone is still prepared to make a movie that doesn't say sorry for being what it is. You get exactly what you want form this movie, violent fantasy without a pretensious veil of liberal irony.
For example... No Counrty for Old Men is a total bucket of shit because it is dressed up as 'deep and arty'. Whereas the only note-worthy sections contain the relesntless killer being the terminator. The rest of the film is one long yawn. If you doubt this, type the title into Youtube and you will see that the only clips anyone wants to see are the violent sections. No one is interested In Tommy Lee Jones's pious speeches ot the long panning shots of notheing.
If you don't like blunt films that might not impress your weak, blame bleeting friends in the coffee shop... fuck off and rent a Woody Allen film
Thanks to the neanderthal for that last incoherent babble...shouldn't you be shaving your arms or something?
Was that an insult Moriarte?. You start a Rambo review with - This film has such weak story line- i didnt realy had to read more, this is a rambo movie dude!. Its like going to se Day of the Dead and slaughter the movie becouse it wasnt any love scenes in it, comon man!.
One of the more underrated films I've seen in a while.
I've never hated a villain so much in a movie and been so uneasy in witnessing their demise. I sat teetering between shock and awe through most of my viewing.
I am absolutely loving the aged and broken war hero stories that have come about in my lifetime. There's such an honesty to the characters. What am I? What is my role in this world? You and I struggle with these questions in our stupid little quiet lives. There are people on this planet that must come to grips with things about themselves that we cannot imagine and will likely never experience.
Some people will pity John Rambo. I don't at all. There is something profound about watching a person confront and accept themselves under the most extreme circumstances. Granted, enjoying a revelation like this is situational. You don't take joy in watching a child molester come to grips with who he is. Rambo is a monster who's actions I can personally justify.
As far as specifics in the film I loved the dream sequence. It was quick, well edited and just the right amount of manic. My only real complaint about the movie is the lackluster performances from the missionary group. All people capable of so much more.
Wow...'something profound about this movie you say'..the only profound question here though was why the Burmese army couldn't shoot straight. Try staying off the weed for a while, turnip head!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_boy
I don't read your tripe, but I felt a need to correct you, it was not a nuclear device. I think if you had ever lifted your fat, elitist forearms to google it, you'd know it was an extremely large, impressive bomb which was specifically named in the film, jackass, not some "convenient" made up mega-bomb.
I think you mean that you can't read like many Rambo fans. Obviously it wasn't a nuclear device as most countries, including Burma, hasn't got them...I was being 'sarcastic'...try getting your mother to look this word up in the dictionary and explain it to you sometime. The whole film was absurd and the fighting totally one sided...also did you see the broken hearted look on Rambo's face when he saw the gay Burmese Colonel was with that prisoner boy for the night...I rest my case!
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