Rambo

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  • Opened January 25, 2008 
  • 1 hr 33 min
  • R | strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language

  • John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary life in the mountains, has long given up fighting. That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out John Rambo. When Sarah and Michael Bennett approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers. Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. The lone warrior knows what he must do. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
  • Director: Sylvester Stallone
  • Genres: Comedy

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Rambo teaches that fighting sucks, good intentions can be futile, and coalitions of the willing are a charade: A man's got to do what a man's got to do. Read full review

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TV Guide
| Maitland McDonagh

The result is the farthest thing from a bland, spineless sequel: It's a brutal, insanely excessive successor to grindhouse pictures of yore. Read full review

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ReelViews
| James Berardinelli

In the Rambo canon, where does this one fit? The tone is closer to "First Blood" but the body count is more "Rambo III." No matter how one dices and slices this new Rambo, the first one in 20 years, it will likely please fans of the long-in-the-tooth series. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Jack Mathews

Like a lost recording by the Beatles, Sylvester Stallone's Rambo arrives with its feet planted firmly in the past, a reminder of a time when Stallone, Chuck Norris and other wooden soldiers of the big screen filled multiplexes with the floor-shaking thunder of trivialized war. Read full review

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Sylvester Stallone in "Rambo."