It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This movie is just pure action galore, for action fans alike. While yes there isn't much to go on for drama or stuff like that it is just action through and through. Being based on a real war that is rarely talked about it is a good look at the underbelly of conflicts that aren't so well known as the war in the Middle-East, which is popularized by Hollywood to make a quick buck, but by looking into not so known wars it will give the audience a look from a movie perspective of the gritty horrors of war

Finally we realize that in acting, even in action films, less is more. No one can get attached to a stick figure character with a bombastic personality (as we all have seen in previous action films). Rambo succeeds in maintaining a delicate balance between 'Knowing' the characters and 'understanding' them as people. I think Sylvester Stallone did a great job as director. The violence is very visceral and disturbing. This movie is not everyone's thing. I have no idea how they pulled off the level of detail. The technology to produce the graphic detail is awe inspiring. The plot is fairly simple. This is the movie we've come to know as a Rambo film; taken to the next level of the art. I'm very impressed... and I'm not one to usually enjoy this sort of film but I did this one.

Believe me when I say, you will feel what a single bullet can do to human body and how devastatingly chaotic war is, all while watching this movie.From a evil military general portrayal of Burma and his merciless soldiers to a group of determined Christian aid workers willing to walk right into death (well until they're in awe and it's too late), to the equally shrouded rage pumping through the so-called 'boatman', every single moment in this movie will give you qualms.This pure adrenaline action watch would unleash raw blood fight, the likes of which are rare to find in even the most brutal action films.**you'd be surprised when you realize Stallone himself directed this momentum masterpiece**

Twenty years after his last big screen adventure, ageing cynical Vietnam War veteran (and trained killing machine) John Rambo finds himself amidst violent turmoil in Burma in this fourth film in the 'First Blood' franchise. For the first time in the series, star Sylvester Stallone takes over the directing reigns and weaves an entry that tries to get under the main character's skin and look at why he is so attracted to warfare and so reluctant to return home. Thoughtful dialogue abounds in plentiful supply with lines such as "when you're pushed, killing is as easy as breathing" and "live for nothing or die for something". There is also a superb montage including black and white excerpts from the previous three films as Rambo finds himself plagued by nightmares. Refreshing at this intelligent edge it is, it is however only an edge. The vast majority of the film consists of explosions, mass shootings and violence galore with Rambo superhumanly taking on bad guy after bad guy with nary a scratch to show for it. The supporting characters are pretty bland too, from a formulaic damsel in distress to a proponent of nonviolence who has to learn to be violent, etc. The film also never really explores why Rambo likes killing so much even though it does admittedly attempt to address the issue. Never to mind, the mere fact that the film is interested in exploring the character renders it preferable to the third entry in the series and probably the second one too. The film also features the strongest ending of all four films in the franchise with a telling, elongated shot as the end credits roll.