Product Description

The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by missionaries to protect them during a humanitarian aid effort on behalf of the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After the missionaries are taken prisoner by Burmese soldiers Rambo gets a second impossible job: rescue the missionaries in the midst of a civil war.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/HEROES Rating: R UPC: 031398232995 Manufacturer No: 23299

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2008-05-27
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: Burmese, English, Thai
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

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If you've been wondering what ever happened to ex-Green Beret superwarrior John Rambo since he singlehandedly shot up a Pacific Northwest town (First Blood, 1982), returned to the jungles of 'Nam to free U.S. POWs held long after war's end (Rambo: First Blood Part II, 1985), and interrupted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan long enough to blow lots of stuff up and rescue his old commandant from the Reds (Rambo III, 1988), then Rambo (2008) is for you. Without so much as a IV to dilute the brand name, Rambo--which is what most of us called the second, most iconic film in the series--may aspire to open a new era for a pop legend. But it's a thoroughly mechanical attempt to reanimate a franchise that, absent the anger, frustration, and self-loathing of the post-Vietnam years, has no meaning or purpose. For some time now Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has been putt-putting along the Thai-Burmese border in a longboat, catching exotic snakes to sell. As for the 60-year civil war in Burma between the brutal government and the Karen independence movement, he ignores it. Enter a party of American missionaries whose dewy blond spokeswoman (Dexter's Julie Benz) asks Rambo to haul them upriver so that they can bring medical aid to the insurgents. After the requisite number of monosyllabic refusals, he does. Soon afterward the do-gooders are in a world of hurt, and he's summoned to lead a squad of mercenaries on a rescue mission.

As storytelling, the latest Rambo is the most bare-bones of the bunch. Rambo has little to say, so it's especially galling that Stallone, as director and co-writer, obliges him to have essentially the same conversation at three different points (the final distillation: "Live for nothing or die for something"). The Burmese army goons seem in competition to commit the most hideous atrocity (e.g., child skull-crushing underfoot), the better to justify the eventual, lovingly protracted spectacle of them being eviscerated by high-powered weaponry. Although shot in Thailand, the movie has mostly been photographed in brown, reducing any particular sense of place but, perhaps, perversely increasing our gratitude for the splashes of purple whenever hot metal tatters flesh. --Richard T. Jameson

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Customer Reviews

Amazing job from Stallone
Very intense and shocking, have lots of bloody scene, and I believe after First Blood which is classic, this one is the best (don't confuse, it won't be classic ever!). Picture quality and sound is perfect. Directly go to subject, no waste time and as American ultimate hero done the job perfectly with caliber 50!
Definitely worth to have and worth to watch more than once.
Too intense for kids and family.

A total waste...
...not that I was expecting much in the first place. I've never been a huge Rambo fan, and this film didn't change that for me. I've seen many dumb films in my life. Most of them are in the "so bad, they're good" category - as in all of Ed Wood's films and anything by William Castle - only they knew how to make B-movies FUN.

This new installment of RAMBO (and hopefully the last) is so insanely stupid, that I cannot believe that it was even greenlit in the first place. Sylvester Stallone is not an idiot. I've seen him in interviews, and he seems like a really cool, intelligent individual. He's even working on an upcoming bio-pic on Edgar Allen Poe, that he is planning to direct. I just don't see why he would waste his time on this disaster of a film, when he could have spent all of that time and energy on his POE project. Who knows? POE might actually be his first masterpiece, if he can stop wasting his time on blown up, macho doo-doo like this.

Rambo ROCKS!
If you are an action fan and (especially) if you like the previous Rambo movies then you will love this one. This is probably the most violent movie I've ever seen; it is graphic and brutal but I'm not afraid to admit I love that stuff so I really enjoyed it. All these jerks complaining about how it's too violent need to wake up to themselves- if you don't like violent movies then don't watch them! Seriously, this is an awesome movie- it is great that Stallone has resurrected the true, eighties style action movie and he deserves credit for that. I think this is the best Rambo yet and I highly recommend it. Don't listen to those stupid movie critics who never have anything good to say about any movie that isn't some mamby pamby arthouse garbage- they don't know what they are talking about.

Five stars.