Rambo (6)

Were all Rambo films like this 2008 new one - a do-good too-good guy goes berserk with a bazooka and bullets? I think that they might have been. And the old formula is carried out surprisingly well in this film, 6 - it picked once the action really began.

John Rambo is living near Burma, hiding from the world and is hired by a bunch of stupidly naive christen to smuggle them into Burma to bring in medial help. A civil war there where a despotic warlord kills people for sport is what the land they go up river into. Days latter Rambo is hired to join a group of mercenaries to go and rescue them because, well, the village they were in was massacred and they were captured. That's the first half of the movie. Everything after that, is war action with Rambo doing what Rambo does, scream and kill everyone one.

The rest of the film, is fairly gruesome bloody battles. But also, in a strange way that gruesome shouldn't really be, exciting. The action, and nothing else, is what makes this film work. Everything else, is awful drivel. Such silly things such as the medics preaching, and one having been there before being so naive is very off putting. The bad war lord being made extra bad by being a paedophile too, the almost comic collection of mercenaries and Rambo's soliloquies that made me clench my teeth in piteful pain ("You didn't kill for your country, you killed for youself" etc) also made me stop watching the film!

If you don't like blood and guts and war, or if you want an interesting plot and characters, then stay well away from this film! If you want "junk cinema" for a rainy day that wont tax your brain at all, then this is it.