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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Graham McTavish, Matthew Marsden
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Cinematography: Glen MacPherson
Music: Brian Tyler
U.S. Distributor: Lionsgate

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Sylvester Stallone’s “Rambo” sequel opens today. Stallone wrote, directed and starred in the film, which features 11 producers. In the film, John Rambo (now living in Thailand, catching snakes) assembles a group of mercenaries and leads them on a river to a Burmese village and rescue of a group of Christian missionaries. Reviewers are wary, reviews are mixed, and nobody avoided comment on the bizarre nature of Stallone’s physical aging. Huffington Post

Rambo spent his last years living an isolated life in the jungle in Thailand, living alone and scraping a living by catching the deadly snake local freak show. And ‘increasingly quiet and rarely speaks other than to say “fuck you” once or twice under his breath. One day, however, his solitude is interrupted when a group of American Christian missionaries face him, trying to step on his boat in the troubled country of Burma so they can provide supplies and to provide medical assistance to refugees who are terrorized by local military . John J Rambo, as the wise man of the mountains that he is, tells them “no” and go home. But one of the missionaries (the lone woman in the group) decided to contest the little humanity that still exists in John and ultimately convinces him to help. However, sometimes after John drops off the missionaries in Burma, comes word that the village was helping were attacked, and John is called again to mount a rescue mission to save the missionaries currently held by the brutal military commander. The Movie Blog

Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo has returned to northern Thailand, where he led a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma border, the world’s longest civil war, the Burmese Karen conflict that rages in his 60th Year. But Rambo, which is a lonely life, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes for sale, has long given up fighting, as a physician, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass on the way to the war-torn region. Meta Critic

Has it really been 20 years? The last time we saw John Rambo, in 1988, he was involved in the cold war, some stuff final phase in Afghanistan, and its action-movie franchise, which was launched in 1982 with “First Blood” seems to be spray towards self-parody. Since Rambo has faded into semi-darkness, even if his name is still sometimes used, perhaps a little unfairly, as a synonym for revenge, go-it-alone militarism. When I saw the posters announcing his imminent return, I wondered who would be fighting this time. In “Rambo: First Blood Part II”, the cumbersomely titled central to the first trilogy, he returned to Vietnam to collect both the amortization of communists and, indirectly, the pusillanimous desk jockeys who supposedly messed up this war the first time around. In light of this summary, it seems reasonable to assume that now, it might be to return to Central Asia to hunt down Osama bin Laden, a job that nobody else seems willing to address. The New York Times

In 1982, Sylvester Stallone as the first blood as abused and confused Vietnam vet in need of psychological counselling - a symbol different from his Rocky persona (but still much kicking donkey.) Now, twenty-six years and a few awkward title changes later, John Rambo returns to Rambo, a story about border-sociopath who, through beheading and unrequited love in the Christian missionary ridiculous hot, literally kills trucks from the Burmese soldiers and wins over the hearts and minds, it is a referee at least. UnderGroundOnline

The Sylvester Stallone nostalgia tour, which started with another “Rocky” continues with this fourth “Rambo”. Although Stallone plays totally straight, the mere idea of the aging action star straps on the back bandana risible enough to let the movie play as a comedy, albeit one with an unusually high body count. So while much of the public will show up to admire what armoured-piercing weapons do to human flesh, some might giggle at the notion of Rambo’s back in a movie that no risk gumming its massacre with a lot of plot.
Based on “Rocky” scorecard, box office should be initially robust, which will be welcome if only to compensate for the film of the 11 executive producers - proof of the company contortions required engineer Rambo’s comeback, with Stallone as a co-writer and director as well as If reprising his starring role.
In a sense, the right timing is strange, since “Rambo” liquidation of a kind of referendum on Vietnam, the progress of the theory that the war was winnable if we want to Rambo does its job, helping him to pay (and Pay and pay) for all of the sins of his countrymen home. Given the current debate over Iraq, this latest massacre perhaps wisely steers clear of those landmines, but they remain unavoidable subtext to someone who knows that the nature of history. Variety