Rambo

Rambo (or known as Rambo IV) is a 2008 German-American action film directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, based on the character John Rambo created by author David Morrell for his novel First Blood. It's a sequel to Rambo III, it is the fourth and the final installment of the Rambo franchise and co-stars Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake La Botz, Maung Maung Khin, and Ken Howard.

Plot
In 2008, 20 years after the events in Afghanistan in 1988, A Vietnam War veteran John Rambo now lives in Thailand, making a meager living as a snake catcher and by providing boat rides. He had survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand, where he spends his time capturing snakes for local entertainers, and chauffeuring locals in his old PT boat. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him: a group of Christian human rights missionaries, led by Michael Burnett and Sarah Miller, approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma. For over fifty years, Burma has been a war zone. The Karen people of the region, who consist of peasants and farmers, have endured brutally oppressive rule from the murderous Burmese military and have been struggling for survival every single day.

After some inner contemplation, Rambo accepts the offer and takes Michael, Sarah, and the rest of the missionaries up the river. When the missionaries finally arrive at the Karen village, they find themselves part of a raid by the sadistic. Rambo launches a surprise attack by seizing a jeep mounted with an M2 Browning machine gun, igniting a mass shooting in the jungle during which he shoots most of Tint's army dead while a firefight ensues between the mercenaries and Tint's soldiers. The Karen rebels, led by Myint, arrive and join the fight, helping to overwhelm Tint's soldiers and kill them all. After realizing his defeat, Tint attempts to escape, but Rambo intercepts and disembowels him dead with his machete. Sometime later, Rambo finally returns to the United States for his return home in Bowie, Arizona, and the film ends.

Why Rambo Returns

 * 1) It's an amazing conclusion to the Rambo franchise, with Rambo gets his one last war with a group of rebels in the Burma war.
 * 2) Sylvester Stallone still gives an awesome performance as John Rambo, and is still the most likable character of all four Rambo films.
 * 3) The plot is straightforward, as always, much like the three films.
 * 4) Awesome cinematography.
 * 5) Pa Tee Tint is a great villain, and he is one of the last villains to date in the Rambo franchise, his goal is that he is a complete campaign of fear, plunder Karen lands for natural resources, sell drugs, fulfill his perverted sexual desires.
 * 6) It still retains a huge roller coaster ride of gore, violence and action sequences.
 * 7) The movie's tonal shifts is well handled, It starts off as a normal pacing adventure drama, saving people tone before it becomes an action thriller to a huge action war film in the third to the final act.
 * 8) The scene where Rambo sets a bomb in the jungle, killing a lot of enemy soldiers creating a huge small nuke around the jungle is extremely awesome.
 * 9) Great pacing.
 * 10) The soundtrack that was composed by Brian Tyler is amazing.
 * 11) Epic final battle with Tinet and his minions during the final epic climax.
 * 12) The ending is beyond fantastic when Rambo finally returns home to the United States for his return home in Bowie, Arizona ending the whole Rambo series for good, similar to how Live Free or Die Hard ends the Die Hard series for good. However, both films have no sequel baiting.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The camera can be very shaky in several scenes.
 * 2) Some of the newer characters don't even serve charm, or charisma from the first three films.
 * 3) Although the plot is straightforward for the most part, the story can be rather thin at times.
 * 4) The title can be confusing for some new-comers.

Critical response
Rambo received mixed-to-positive reviews, however, it was met with mostly positive reactions from both audiences, and fans of the Rambo series, fans dismiss that it's a very awesome way to conclude the Rambo franchise. On Rotten Tomatoes, it had a 37% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 153 reviews, with an average rating of 4.84/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Sylvester Stallone knows how to stage action sequences, but the movie's uneven pacing and excessive violence (even for the franchise) is more nauseating than entertaining, it had a 69% audience score rating on the same site. Metacritic scores a film a 46/100 based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews" and a 7.8/10 on the same site. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. On IMDB, it has a 7/10 rating on the same site.

Box office
The film performed decently at the box office.

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Trivia

 * The film was banned by the Burmese government upon its release, the then-ruling military junta ordered DVD vendors in Burma not to distribute the film due to the movie's content. Despite having never been released there theatrically or on DVD, Rambo is, however, available there in bootleg versions. The opposition youth group Generation Wave copied and distributed the film as anti-Tatmadaw propaganda.