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Rambo

2008

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish ...

5.4

28,004

Action Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Advisory: This violence contains a movie, but only intermittently. Mainly, it's all violence."	NEG
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Rambo is no longer a symbol of betrayal in Vietnam or anything else. He’s just a walking Claymore."	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The mouthiest mercenary (...) is given the best line to snarl at our hero: 'You can drop that thousand-yard stare. I've seen it all before, and I'm not impressed.' We couldn't have said it better ourselves (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Stallone is smart enough -- or maybe dumb enough, though I tend to think not -- to present the mythic dimensions of the character without apology or irony. Welcome back.	POS
United Kingdom	Roberto Sadovski Empire	"Rambo could have been a satisfying romp (...) but for the sin of making the main man step to the sidelines in favour of charisma-free fillers. Bad move, Sly... (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Todd Gilchrist IGN	"Combines the best and worst of the franchise's history (...) There's no way to separate [Rambo's] superficial victories from his more substantial ones."	NEU
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Lucky they didn't send him to Iraq or things might have turned really hairy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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