Rambo

Rambo: First Blood part 4.  Siege of Dismemberment.

That’s what it should have been called.  I’ve never seen more dismemberment in a movie.  Ever.  Dudes where literally blowing up all over the place.  The sniper dude had this cannon that was just taking off heads.  Machine gunners where cutting people to pieces. 

It was awesome!

Unlike Rocky Balboa, where Sly’s character does a little soul searching and comes to grips with himself at his age and with his son and all that crap, this is old school, ass kicking Rambo.  And he is a bad ass.

On a bad assery scale of ten exploding arrows, this is a nine.  Only because there are no exploding arrows. 

I must say I was hoping for this new Rambo they would enlist him to help in Afghanistan or Iraq or something in the Middle East.  But no, Rambo loves his jungle.

This one takes place in Burma.  Where I suppose there’s some genocide going on and Rambo lives just down river catching cobras so other idiots can grapple with them for money.  Good life for the baddest ass mercenary ever.

So these dopey white guys and one little blonde white girl come to Rambo so he can drive them in his boat up the river to Burma where they are doing some missionary work.  And yeah, I’m not believing that this group of office jockey looking doctors and missionaries made it all the way to where Rambo is in the first place, there’s no freaking way these guys are gonna survive any kind of jungle life.  But whatever, we gotta get the story moving, right?

So Rambo is sweet talked by the blonde and he takes them up river to Burma.  Where on their first day in camp the bad guys show up and kill everyone.  I mean everyone.  Except the dopey white guys and the blonde, of course.

Oh and get this, the minister from the church in Colorado that sent these missionaries over in the first place shows up to ask Rambo for help retrieving them.  He’s also hired a group of mercenaries to go in after his lost flock.

Whatever, let the ass kicking begin.

 This one will be added to the library shortly after it is available on DVD.  Just so I can complete the collection if nothing else.  I’ll go as high as 16 bucks for it, but I’d prefer to catch it for ten bucks in the used bin.