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RAMBO

Sylvester Stallone, Directed and Written by Sylvester Stallone

by Frank Legato

      
OK, before you go out and get this DVD, you’ve got to ask yourself something: Are you an action junkie? Do you get off on seeing grunting, sweaty, monosyllabic action heroes alternately shoot, decapitate, gut and rip the throats out of the bad guys?

In other words, do you like Rambo movies?

If you love the saga of the ex-Special Forces hero, Stallone’s fourth installment of the series that started with First Blood does not disappoint. Before the film begins, you find yourself wondering whether the 62-year-old Stallone, who wrote, directed and starred in the film, is still up to the task of running through a jungle disemboweling bad guys. He is.

Setting the stage are real-life, chilling images of men, women and children being slaughtered, raped and enslaved by Burmese soldiers in a documented campaign of genocide—we firmly establish that the bad guys are really bad.

Rambo is hired to take a group of missionaries up the river into Burma. He gets them to their destination, stopping briefly to slice through half a dozen Burmese pirates before they can kill the missionaries (piece of cake). Eventually, the missionaries are taken hostage by the Burmese soldiers, and Rambo is called upon to lead a band of mercenaries to rescue them.

Here’s where the real fun begins. From bows and arrows to gazillion-caliber, shoulder-slung machine guns to Claymore mines and other explosives, Rambo just starts offing the entire Burmese army.

A word of caution: This is one of the most gratuitous sequences of blood-and-guts (literally) gore ever put on film. Sly will stab you, shoot you and blow you up real good. And, as with the other Rambo films, you’ll feel that the bastards actually deserved it!

Yes, we know. It’s not exactly the kind of film you pop into the DVD player and curl up with your sweetheart to watch. It’s a get-some-beer-and-call-your-buddies movie. Know that going in, and you’re going to have a rip-roaring, gut-carving, head-blowing-up good time!