I was very apprehensive in wanting to watch this since I knew it was going to be extremely violent and gore filled from the limited trailers and what not before I saw it. Ever since Saving Private Ryan back in 1998 when I saw it at Schoolies at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, I've been turned away from the excess blood guts and gore that many movies tend to have these days. This one was not an exception to that either.
John Rambo is now hanging out near the border of Burma, where the conflict between the ruling Junta and rebels are still going strong. A group of missionaries from Colorado want to enter Burma to provide medical and spiritual aid to villagers. They enlist Rambo to take them down river and drop them off. Unfortunately for them, the military capture them during one of their village rape and pillage sessions. Thus the movie really starts to get going. The pastor of this group of missionaries comes along with some mercenaries and asks Rambo to drop them off at the same point so that they can run an extraction mission. And that is pretty much the plot of the movie. It was never supposed to be 'deep', but the story itself is.
I read in an interview with Sylvester Stallone about the film, and the conditions that they replicated are very real in terms of the struggle and violence that the Burmese people undergo. Even with the recent weather disasters, their ruling tyranny of military might have restricted and prevent international aid to the poor helpless masses suffering. The movie depiction of the going ons within the country have been said to be quite accurate. Which in itself is frightening that the international community, with all of its words and might, still have not been able to do anything, in similar fashion to the atrocities happening in Tibet, and in China with the Falong Gong issues.
The movie is very bloody. Pretty much 90% of the people who are shown on the screen are doomed to die in some fashion or other. They don't spare the body parts nor the blood. If you are squeamish, then, really, don't see this. If you like your war movies and much death, well this is for you.
On an observational note, the leader of the mercenaries is ex-SAS, so he's supposedly Australian by that but he has more of a "British" touch to him, the token asian gets shrapnel'd, not sure what happened to the token black guy, missionaries don't get miracle saves from God, and Rambo manages to get flung from a helluva bomb blast (which how he rigged it was pretty nifty) but doesn't get any wounds from it, just from a bullet later on from a .50 cal mounted machine gun.... Oh, and military leader folk like little boys.....
I'm actually giving it a high rating because of the realism of the movie, and the deep issues that it raises. I don't support the violence.
8.5/10
John Rambo is now hanging out near the border of Burma, where the conflict between the ruling Junta and rebels are still going strong. A group of missionaries from Colorado want to enter Burma to provide medical and spiritual aid to villagers. They enlist Rambo to take them down river and drop them off. Unfortunately for them, the military capture them during one of their village rape and pillage sessions. Thus the movie really starts to get going. The pastor of this group of missionaries comes along with some mercenaries and asks Rambo to drop them off at the same point so that they can run an extraction mission. And that is pretty much the plot of the movie. It was never supposed to be 'deep', but the story itself is.
I read in an interview with Sylvester Stallone about the film, and the conditions that they replicated are very real in terms of the struggle and violence that the Burmese people undergo. Even with the recent weather disasters, their ruling tyranny of military might have restricted and prevent international aid to the poor helpless masses suffering. The movie depiction of the going ons within the country have been said to be quite accurate. Which in itself is frightening that the international community, with all of its words and might, still have not been able to do anything, in similar fashion to the atrocities happening in Tibet, and in China with the Falong Gong issues.
The movie is very bloody. Pretty much 90% of the people who are shown on the screen are doomed to die in some fashion or other. They don't spare the body parts nor the blood. If you are squeamish, then, really, don't see this. If you like your war movies and much death, well this is for you.
On an observational note, the leader of the mercenaries is ex-SAS, so he's supposedly Australian by that but he has more of a "British" touch to him, the token asian gets shrapnel'd, not sure what happened to the token black guy, missionaries don't get miracle saves from God, and Rambo manages to get flung from a helluva bomb blast (which how he rigged it was pretty nifty) but doesn't get any wounds from it, just from a bullet later on from a .50 cal mounted machine gun.... Oh, and military leader folk like little boys.....
I'm actually giving it a high rating because of the realism of the movie, and the deep issues that it raises. I don't support the violence.
8.5/10
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