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Rambo

Rambo

2008
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 32m
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Bangkok, where he spends his time salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him... (imdb)
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Rambo

2008
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 32m
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Rated 25 Sep 2009
59
29th
*mumble* Hi, I'm John Rambo and I'll be your tour guide. On this trip we'll see some non-white people eviscerated, limbs amputated and skulls evacuated by a surgical hail of bullets. Also, rifle bullets will launch people 15 ft. During the tour I may stare blankly into space for minutes at a time, but don't worry I won't be thinking. Some locals will be brutalised, but no raping of white women, that's just naughty. So sit back, relax as we crack open some people-shaped tomato soup cans */mumble*
Rated 03 Sep 2018
82
51st
Keep your brain firmly in "HELL YEAH!" mode and you'll have a good time.
Rated 28 Mar 2015
62
42nd
I don't think you guys understand. The whole opening is meant to let us know that Rambo doesn't like violence. He doesn't like it! This is basically like Straw Dogs if Dustin Hoffman had used the bear trap on an intruders head and their eyeball had popped out and flown directly into Susan George's mouth à la Evil Dead 2. So basically, way better than the actual Straw Dogs remake.
Rated 12 Jul 2021
67
46th
False advertising. Missions trips were nothing like this we usually just put shingles on a roof and held old ladies' hands while making sure the well water had the right ph balance. Here it's just a constant threat of kids getting bayonetted and gang rape and running on land mines as proxy for a godless universe. I was reminded of a line from First Blood: "God didn't make Rambo, I made him!" and here Rambo saves God. I guess that's poetry, in a Rambo kind of way.
Rated 20 Jul 2008
75
57th
This is a gory, dark, sharp-edged action flick that will leave you speechless. Most of the film consists of insane gory executions and guts splattering everywhere. Some nice explosions too, but the plot and dialogue are pretty weak. Just turn your mind off for about 80 minutes and enjoy.
Rated 15 Feb 2009
78
67th
Head-blowing-up action! Real fun movie to watch, not as serious as "First Blood," but if you just want to watch people explode; this is your movie.
Rated 28 Jan 2008
79
65th
This film blew my mind. The amount and intensity of the violence makes this no comic book affair like parts two and three...This is some truly disturbing stuff. Stallone, however, is able to walk the tightrope and deliver a highly entertaining film without being completely repulsive. This is one of the better action films from the 1980s...In 2008 and I feel that's the best compliment this film can get.
Rated 25 Feb 2008
19
10th
Better visual style than the other Rambo films, I'll give it that. However that is the only bit of praise I can offer this film. It glorifies unparallel violence, just like Rambo II and III, which is the complete antithesis of first film, but this time around it has the realism that's offered in Saving Private Ryan, at least in terms of blood and guts. Frankly I consider this to basically be a torture porn level of gore and, as such, I really didn't like the film.
Rated 13 Jun 2008
70
52nd
Stallone chooses the right approach for the closure of this mindless action series...which is, by putting mindless action itself right in the center of its argument point :) I liked this secluded, desperate and nihilist version of rambo better.
Rated 30 Aug 2009
50
28th
The sadism and violence are off the charts, watching this made me feel dirty. If you enjoy seeing your fellow human being turned into chunks of smoking meat, then this is the movie for you. A half-decent action movie otherwise.
Rated 12 Oct 2009
60
49th
"What about the world?" "Fuck the world" -"What about the script?" "Fuck the script!" - "What about an interesting story arc?" "Fuck story arcs!"
Rated 16 Nov 2013
7
57th
Rambo is the finale that the series deserved following the somewhat forgettable third instalment 20 years prior. It's without doubt one of the most violent and graphic action films I've ever seen. Visually the tone of this prolonged fourth instalment is unrecognisable of the original trilogy. But nostalgically Sylvester Stallone's return as Rambo is a throwback to his action hero glory days. Despite a wafer thin plot, the war zone of Burma is relevant, realistic and gruesomely entertaining.
Rated 12 Nov 2014
20
1st
Stallone's greatest flaw as both director and actor is the constant failure to recognise his own strengths and weaknesses. The huge sad problem here is the cashgrabbing cynicism coupled with absolute seriousness that force the film to be taken at face value and doing so, it's just awful. I usually enjoy some sadism with my action films but combined with idiotic pretensions and glaringly unironic racism it's not really my thing. At all.
Rated 23 Mar 2019
63
54th
It's undeniably excessive and one note, but it's a note Sly knows how to play, and he hammers down on it repeatedly with complete ferocity, resulting in long scenes of brutal violence that have a real visceral intensity due to his formal decisions (intense close ups, rapid cutting, low angle shots etc). If there is a message here, it's not one of patriotism but of the inevitability of bloodshed. In that sense, it's the bleakest entry in the series as well as the most violent. Hobbes on steroids.
Rated 24 Oct 2019
71
39th
Ultra-violent rendition of "rock-em, sock-em" emerges as the most flat-out entertaining Rambo entry to date, but also the most unsettling in its ugly depiction of brutal war violence. Stallone's work behind the camera scores most strongly here - the carnage scenes are genuinely energising and exciting, and his Rambo is a relatively more charismatic character than in the past. A disturbing but not uninteresting experience, especially contrasted against the benignity of his ROCKY franchise.
Rated 25 May 2020
77
62nd
Marking something of a resurgence in Stallone's career and a wholesale resurgence in the interest of a number of action stars who are far too old to still be action stars, a reprisal for Rambo was over a decade overdue. But old or not, this movie still works, he's still badass and just as awesome as ever.
Rated 15 Feb 2008
50
40th
Though nothing major on this film, I can't stop myself but appreciate Stallone to end up both of his name-tag franchises on a good note. Rambo still has the skewed perspective on real world politics (this time about the tyranny in Burma) so you have to give up the critical approach as from the start. Boring for the first half, gets fun as the gut level climbs up and ends up with the desperate look on Rambo's face that sometimes violence is the only solution.
Rated 15 Mar 2008
10
1st
The only way to change the world is to blow it to fuckin' bits.
Rated 26 May 2008
5
44th
This isn't really an action movie but more like a gore wet dream. Stallone's acting is hilarious - he does the same thing in every scene and rarely changes expressions. If you want to turn your brain off for 80 minutes - watch this. If not, just watch the trailer because everything important (and I use that loosely) is shown in it.
Rated 04 Jun 2008
8
93rd
Pure fucking testosterone. This is a man's movie, about a man's man killing other men in manly ways. Sure, the plot, dialogue, and acting do little to impress (outside of Stallone's timeless macho magnetism), but god DAMN is the violence in this movie beyond the pale. Brain matter spews, bones shatter into so many white splinters, flesh is sliced, throats are ripped, and the jungles of Burma run red with the blood of a hundred murdered bad guys. I am speechless. I am in awe.
Rated 28 Apr 2010
68
18th
It's 2008 and Rambo is as dull and uninteresting as he's always been. I continue to be astounded by the dreadful actors Stallone continually casts (think the drunk girl in "Rocky Balboa") in his late-career efforts. There are some truly terrible performances to behold here, with my favorite being the pussy "liberal" stand-in who gets UPSET with Rambo for killing a band of pirates who were about to rape and possibly murder his companion. Give it a rest, Sly. Ease up on the CGI blood too, will ya?
Rated 26 Jan 2008
83
67th
Rambo is just too wonderful for words. If you know what you're getting yourself in to, expect to be blown away. Without a doubt there is some of the most violent, visceral action ever caught on film, and it's literally jaw dropping and mesmerizing. The plot, acting, development, etc. are almost nonexistent but it simply doesn't matter. As far as action is concerned this really could be one of the best in the genre. It's so mind-numbingly entertaining and exciting that you'll be wanting more
Rated 31 Jan 2008
27
21st
manliest film i've seen in ages |m/
Rated 26 Feb 2008
50
15th
It's not bad but it's not really good. Violent to beyond cartoon levels and the bad guys may as well wear capes and dress in black, twirling moustaches. Mind you, stepping on a landmine on being hit by a burst of heavy caliber machine gun fire should look like it hurts, and not the usual bollocks of 'just a flesh wound'. In conclusion, not bad but all the depth of a puddle under a steamroller.
Rated 27 Feb 2008
20
2nd
The last figure on Stallone's tombstone..
Rated 26 Apr 2008
70
57th
Fun. Being provoked by this is like being provoked by a 3-year-old calling you evil.
Rated 01 Jun 2008
80
23rd
This movie was trying to make some sort of big statement about how war is bad and we need to learn to forgive ourselves and each other. Or something. What they ended up making was a (literally) bloody mess. Rambo kills a lot of (generally very bad) people, sometimes in pretty awesome ways. That scene where kills four or five people with his bow in about 10 seconds was pretty impressive. There's some decent cinematography, but the plot and dialogue leave a lot to be desired.
Rated 23 Jun 2008
50
17th
Annoying CGI and some blatant disregard for the seriousness of war make Rambo an inconsiderate bloodbath. The film, which intended to highlight often forgotten, war-stricken hotspot, Burma, which just doesn't get the attention it deserves thanks to the middle east, tends to be very pro-war, even after starting in a we-want-to-help kind of way. It's screwy, and the action, when it actually begins, does not let up, constantly showing poorly animated exploding heads and gut shots. Crap!
Rated 25 Jun 2008
40
27th
It is the most bloody movie of the saga, in the whole movie 236 persons are killed, with an average of 2,59 deaths for minute. But he still lacks greatly the way to go when the subject is the development of characters and his interactions. Stallone did not get a good work in the last Rocky.
Rated 08 Sep 2008
77
48th
Not horrible so that's a pleasant surprise. Short and to the point it wastes no time w/ trying to do anything more than necessary. Nice to see it knows its limitations. Like its hero it gets the job done quickly. The job here being mindless violence courtesy of the most stoic human character in cinema.
Rated 31 Dec 2008
0
2nd
Is it really necessary to watch children be bayonetted while Sly Stallone's paralyzed face stares blankly, in what I'm assuming, is the kids general direction?! Yes, yes it is, but not when it's witnessed by a steroid driven bad actor...I bet you all didn't realize that his dialogue were excerpts from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, but then again, how would you be able to tell when it comes from Mumbly Joe here! Grrrr....worst...movie...ever!
Rated 17 Apr 2009
2
19th
no
Rated 26 May 2009
65
46th
I don't care what happened in this movie, he killed a lot of people and that was all I needed.
Rated 17 Jun 2009
70
44th
A masturbatory exercise in carnage and gore, but a pretty entertaining 80 minutes nevertheless.
Rated 15 Nov 2009
73
28th
Rambo sad. Rambo guilty. RAMBO MAD! Rambo sad.
Rated 18 Jul 2011
36
10th
Sylvester Stallone knows how to stage action sequences, but the movie's uneven pacing and excessive violence (even for the franchise) is more nauseating than entertaining.
Rated 18 Jun 2012
70
43rd
Not as successful a comeback as Rocky, but it's extremely entertaining nonetheless. Really, the only issue I have with this film is the same as in all Rambo films: Rambo himself. He just isn't a very compelling character: a sleepy, dull yet brawny man who just happens to be good at putting holes in people.
Rated 21 Nov 2012
67
49th
I could not believe how violent this movie was. Typical white-girl in trouble, Rambo to the rescue script.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
60
44th
Rambo combines an unapologetic return to the grand action-movie tradition of blowing shit up (one explosion is so big, it leaves behind its own miniature mushroom cloud) with a "Saw"-era interest in close-ups of human viscera.
Rated 17 Apr 2014
80
77th
Rambo got faaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
Rated 17 Jun 2014
80
77th
A surprisingly good action film, very gory and genuinely intense at times. The 2nd best in the series behind only the original.
Rated 22 Feb 2015
85
90th
Terrific action gorefest, easily one of the best action flicks from XXI century.
Rated 27 Aug 2017
72
51st
This movie would be infinitely better if it wasn't attached to the Rambo franchise. Without the Rambo name, this is a story about an elderly American snake-trapper brutally slaughtering half the population of Myanmar. CGI blood has absolutely no place in any movie with Sly Stallone, by the way.
Rated 22 Nov 2019
70
35th
Rambo in a 3rd world country during a real catastrophe makes a ton of sense and he blends in really, really well...but it's still nothing new as far as narrative goes. He's still rescuing a group of POWs, which he's done twice already, in the second and third film - and I didn't care about the doctors in this as much as the POW in Rambo III. Plus, not enough one-on-one action with Rambo vs. enemies because he uses guns too much.
Rated 04 Jun 2022
50
26th
The first three Rambos dealt with a soldier dealing with trauma. So, this hasn't necessarily ever been a fun series of action films. But, 80s action filmmaking, at least a few decades later, has a campy fun feel even when things get serious. This removes that. It's incredibly brutal to the point of ridiculousness, but it is all dripping with grime. Maybe take a shower after?
Rated 26 Jan 2008
85
54th
A short, bloody, raucus movie. On it's own it would be perhaps a 65/100, but as a bookend to a pop-culture legend, it transcends. Stallone is a genius when it comes to film. He's too easy to mock, but the fact is he knows what he's doing with every move. He knows what people want to see. Stallone didn't compromise, and gave us closure that will brings unexpected emotion. Not for the character, but for our own childhood. Terrific.
Rated 28 Jan 2008
72
57th
"Rambo" doesn't harness one bit of gratuity; it's a very dark, sharp-edged action picture that ends abruptly and leaves you blistering, just short of becoming the best. Sly needed more on-screen activity once unleashed, and this one still hasn't found the humanity of First Blood. You felt for the veteran soldier- misunderstood, abused and hunted in that 1982 film - since then he's only been a tool of war. But rest assured, he's got a war to fight here. It's a brutal assault that fans can devour.
Rated 29 Jan 2008
85
70th
This movie has some balls-kickingly (I don't think that's an adverb but what the hell) awesome action scenes. The characters... 2 dimensional most of the time... but come on, does that really matter? What really matters is seeing Sly carve up some Burmese soldiers with a 50. caliber machine gun.
Rated 03 Feb 2008
2
13th
This movie is so hilariously over the top I can't give it too horrible of a score.
Rated 09 Feb 2008
65
50th
The last 15 min were good, the rest was average or really bad.
Rated 14 Feb 2008
47
18th
The action is solid and brutal (particularly when Rambo busts out his bow and arrow). Too bad the rest of the film is pretty garbage, saddled with characters I don't give a fuck about and a runtime that's too short to establish anything worthwhile.
Rated 22 Feb 2008
80
96th
Bodies exploding left, right and centre. Maybe one of the most violent films i've ever seen, brilliant and fun.
Rated 23 Feb 2008
84
88th
Excellent gore-opera. This is just what I expected from the fourth Rambo and it didn't let me down.
Rated 23 Feb 2008
50
34th
Silly.
Rated 24 Feb 2008
55
33rd
Gore is great, but it's too little too late. Well, I shouldn't say too little. Seriously, the violence in this is fucking raw, intense, and extreme. The problem is, it all feels the same. I can't even call it a great action sequence, cause all it is is Rambo mowing dudes down with a turrett. Yea, they fucking explode when they get hit, but that's not action really, it's just gore. Gore gets it points, but not enough to make up for zero story and slow buildup.
Rated 28 Feb 2008
80
83rd
Perfect ending to the series. Stallone deliveres gore and action to the masses.
Rated 28 Feb 2008
86
87th
A damn fine mindless action flick. Stallone took the right approach to this movie and made it a very good ending to the series.
Rated 29 Feb 2008
25
5th
I guess I would be labeled as a non-Rambo-fan for disliking this film, but it actually makes the previous entry in the series look like Citizen Kane by comparison. Produced by straight-to-cable masters Nu Image, it's as boring and uninspired as any of these late night cheapies, just with more explosions. To Stallone's credit I'll say that he kept himself really well after all these years, but the fact that even he could direct this straight-from-the-cookie-cutter says everything.
Rated 10 Mar 2008
30
4th
Stallone reminds me of Hayden Christensen here - manages beautifully to keep exactly the same face expression throughout the whole film. I won't comment on the story-line, because it's even simpler then in previous installations - there isn't even one turn point here. As for action - if you've seen the trailer, you've seen everything.
Rated 14 Mar 2008
69
59th
Watching Rambo felt like I was seeing a long dead genre of 80's action rise from it's ashes into a new dawn in a triumphant manner. I shed a single manly tear.
Rated 16 Mar 2008
90
69th
Saw it at midnight; adrenaline was too high to go to bed until 4 AM.
Rated 17 Mar 2008
78
73rd
A fitting conclusion to the Rambo movies. I liked that they gave John some emotional closure.
Rated 19 Mar 2008
75
63rd
This is a movie with guts. Plenty of it.
Rated 21 Mar 2008
30
10th
The gore was little more than disgusting. Same goes for Benz's performance.
Rated 25 Mar 2008
30
7th
growing up playing "mortal kombat" games, i'm no stranger to gore, but even I was disturbed by the excess of violence here. Aside from the Rambo factor, it's a generic mindless action movie, a bit on the short side.
Rated 29 Mar 2008
83
69th
Very impressed!!!
Rated 31 Mar 2008
92
96th
Desta vez, Stallone mostra a cruel realidade da guerra civil em Mianmar. Sem dúvida, o mais violento da série. O índice de realismo do filme é surpreendente. Se você estava esperando ver uma história feliz com o herói ficando com a mocinha no final, você errou de filme. Rambo é uma máquina de matar, e não um cara romântico. Se você também espera grandes diálogos, esqueça. Esse não é o propósito do filme. Destaque ainda para os excelentes efeitos especiais e a maquigem impecável.
Rated 03 Apr 2008
35
26th
After sleeping half of the movie, I decided to review it again. I'm not much keen with Muppet eye Rambo (or Stallone's other famous characters either) or war movies gerenally. Film was one of those black and white stories, where you know all the time who's the bad guy and who's not. Local's talk sounded (for purpose) gibberish. Movie is also a good example of modern techonology: good stuns, lots, LOTS of gore with the help of digital special effects. Beginning was too long and sleepy.
Rated 24 Apr 2008
60
60th
Number of Bad Guys Killed: 123 Number of Good Guys Killed" 113. People Killed per Minute, starting at first death: 2.59. It's really, really over-the-top violent, but still every death is grisly.
Rated 06 May 2008
68
44th
This was a lot of fun, and unlike the previous Rambo's this one's really gory: Limbs flying around, intestines falling out of bodies and blood on the camera lens.
Rated 09 May 2008
50
35th
Passes the time.
Rated 11 May 2008
70
33rd
They pretty much show the entire movie in the theatrical trailers. The movie is certainly action packed and pretty gory but it is very straight-forward and doesn't ask for any acting performances from anyone, really. It is also very short.
Rated 17 May 2008
91
82nd
hahaha
Rated 30 May 2008
70
77th
Stallone being as old as he is didn't affect this action packed film one bit, he still has 'it'. A huge plus for the short film, all action with a nice, compact story.
Rated 30 May 2008
90
82nd
This movie really packs a punch. I had such an adrenaline rush from seeing this that I can forgive it for it's weaker points.
Rated 30 May 2008
80
42nd
Um, can't really say anything that hasn't been said. It's like an awesome R-rated movie trailer that ended so abruptly I couldn't believe how much time had gone by. Great action, gore, effects, but can you really call it a 'movie'?
Rated 01 Jun 2008
75
74th
A fun and gory throwback to brainless 80's action flicks. Just don't expect to learn much about world politics.
Rated 04 Jun 2008
55
25th
Squelch. Splut. Yueechh. Awwwww dude. Etc.
Rated 09 Jun 2008
68
58th
The bloodiest installment in the Rambo series...so far (Rambo V is in pre-production and expected to be released in 2009) is better than III and probably has a slight edge over II but, part of that is the benefit of 20 years worth of filmmaking technology and technique. The story isn't necessarily more significant but Stallone also put together a solid cast. Julie Benz gives an especially good performance as idealistic Christian aid worker Sarah.
Rated 23 Jun 2008
70
24th
This is not a bad followup on the rambo series, especially when you realise how old the main character is! My issue is the amount of mindless terribly gory scenes that seems to be the in-thing now-a-days. Completely unnecessary to put across the message it was trying to convey.
Rated 28 Jun 2008
90
91st
I thought it kicked ass just like the rest of em.
Rated 29 Jun 2008
33
13th
eng
Rated 07 Jul 2008
83
76th
Bloody gory action, like only Rambo can do. Not too plot heavy, nothing complex to trip you up. Just big guns and explosions :)
Rated 30 Jul 2008
62
34th
An extremely thin plot, a sniper rifle which makes all heads explode, rambo with bow and arrows & a ridiculous amount of guts and gore. Awesome.
Rated 04 Aug 2008
54
25th
I know, plotwise it's corny by default but this one interestingly caught me a few moments. Sooooo unnecessary but fun as well.
Rated 10 Aug 2008
60
38th
Not as good as Rocky, not that Rocky was that good. I mean the newest one.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
50
44th
Could have become an amazing action movie, but the overuse of blood and guts falling out of bodies makes it kinda disturbing, and coming to Stallone i can only think of two things: Steroids and Botox
Rated 21 Aug 2008
84
83rd
MANLIEST MOVIE EVER
Rated 06 Sep 2008
80
76th
What could be better than seeing Sly Stallone as a one-man militia, taking on a troop of tribe-slaughtering Burmese rebels? No need to answer that..
Rated 14 Sep 2008
76
88th
Bloody, violent, gory, and simplistic. Great guy movie!
Rated 26 Sep 2008
90
84th
A nice piece of action
Rated 02 Oct 2008
11
1st
Stallone should have known when it's enough... it's just not really entertaining to see a 60-year-old Rambo...
Rated 15 Oct 2008
80
25th
I waited a long time for this movie and I wasn't disappointed. Some scenes are very harsh and sometimes hard to watch. But its all worth when sly slays them all at the end.
Rated 17 Oct 2008
80
59th
Plot? Ain't much of it. Dialogue? Pretty cheesy at times. Characters? Didn't care for them much. Action? Better fuckin believe it, there's plenty of it to go around. This is probably the most bloodiest, violent movie I have seen in the past couple of years and the movie didn't waste no time and went for the jugular. If your like your movies with bad, cheesy dialogue and ridiculous amounts of violence like I do...Rambo is your ticket to blood, guts and glory. Welcome back Sly!
Rated 17 Oct 2008
55
83rd
Sådan, efter Steven Segal er blevet "vis" og "økologisk" er det rart at andre gamle mænd kan slå til -
Rated 17 Oct 2008
61
6th
Het is me onduidelijk of dit nu een brute actiefilm is (met de hoeveelheid gore en splatter die je normaal alleen in zombiefilms en slashers verwacht), of een anti-oorlogsfilm die aandacht wil voor de situatie in Birma. Al met al geen slechte film, onderhoudend om te zien... maar af en toe wel erg grafisch. Kan ik best tegen, maar je blijft toch met de vraag zitten: wat is het doel?
Rated 18 Oct 2008
58
65th
Has great action. But as soon as those soldiers appeared, I felt annoyed. I wish this film just had Rambo and the other guys, without those annoying soldiers. Also some scenes were boring. People say this film was the most violent. I say, it wasn't even that violent -- Which disappointed me, since I always thought of this to be very violent (it wasn't).
Rated 18 Nov 2008
30
31st
I've watched this film 2849238234 times to become fluent in Stallonenese.
Rated 27 Nov 2008
75
86th
Nice
Rated 15 Dec 2008
92
88th
brutal

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