Rating John Rambo is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. This movie has heart-pounding action, with great attention to detail. On the other hand, this movie lacked both plot and character development. Thankfully this movie was short – only an hour and 17 minutes. Looking back on this movie it was the quintessential 80s action movie; the only problem is that it is no longer the 80s.
As for the plot, it had as many twists and turns as the quarter mile. Every action scene was predictable and left nothing to the imagination. The characters were not well drawn and the dialogue consisted of short sentences, which were only included to keep the audience from being completely lost in the story. The only thing that kept the dialogue from being unbearable were the one-word “Rambo” responses in times of action. With all of this in mind, this is the perfect throw back movie, something that all of the fans of Rambo can enjoy.
>I agree with your comments. Rambo follows the current trend of over the top action, lots of computer-generated images, little or no plot, and bad or at best mediocre acting
>I saw the movie but couldn’t bring myself to review it, seeing as there’s no “-1″ option on the score bar.The acting was appalling and the one action scene featuring Rambo was 10 minutes of him standing at a damn turret. The movie might as well have been called Guns.
>G. Sloan here (again) is this serious? There is only 1 main character like all the Rambo movies, and that is Rambo,so you can’t really expect alot of character development. He went from some worn out war vet who just wanted to settle down in a small town (First Blood) to a man trying to fight his demons that had new faces (First blood part 2) to a born killer that has come to terms with the fact all he knows how to do is kill (Rambo 3). So that is all the Character development you need right there. The new Rambo movie was just a Good old fashion, American style Hack and Slash , BLOOD GUTS AND GORE movie. You didn’t need any Character development. Besides, what isn’t entertaining about people running through a rice patty mine field, snipers blowing peoples heads off, and some guy that can kill you from 300 yards out with a BOW AND ARROW?
>although i completely agree with ben (think about how we thought the end was gonna be so differentfrom what josh explained).. i agree with “gsloan” too. rambo movies were never made to have an amazing story, just good old american action. i give it a 2