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Summary: 80's Action Classic with Current Times Twist
Review: It seems America needs the help of John Rambo one more time as he treks out to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan to save his friend. This movie is packed with action straight from the beginning until the end!Starting off in the Orient where Rambo seeks to find inner peace by living with Buddhist monks and making some extra money by stick fighting locals. All is well until old pal, Col. Trautman and his CIA friend show up to persuade John to help them funnel arms to the Afghan freedom fighters, (who at the time were fighting the Red army). Rambo quickly declines the offer (Even after seeing some persuading pictures of maimed Afghan children) claiming his war is over. Dissapointed, Col. Trautman leaves on a solo mission with a convoy of Afghan and American fighters to end up being caught by a ruthless Russian commander who tortures him, and Afghan men and women prisoners day and night. Rambo learns of the news and now is forced to back to the war he didn't want to fight to save his friend. Along the way, he makes Afghan friends and saves the day by almost single handedly taking out a whole Russian battalion including Spetnaz commandos. The story is straight out of a comic book, but this movie was made to please one market. Die-Hard Action fans like me who just love to see a one man army take on overwhelming odds, kick enormous butt, and live to tell about it. On a Sidenote: In the end of the movie, a message gives thanks to: "The Gallant People of Afghanistan." Which is the least the makers of this film could do since during the whole movie, Rambo is depicted as the man who turned the tide. Anyone who doesn't know yet, the Afghan/Russian war was solely fought with Afghan blood, but with our gold. In ways Afghans and Rambo are alike. Both were given covert help by the CIA, both were lied to, and both were left to die. Now again USA is helping Afghan freedom fighters to topple the evil Taleban and Al Qaeda, but this time they want in the action. Rumours of Rambo IV are everywhere and there are claims that Stallone is writing a screenplay as we speak. If it's true, let's hope this trilogy wraps up with a bang!
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Summary: Worse than the First, Better than the Second
Review: While I'm not a big fan of the two sequels to "First Blood," I do believe that "Rambo III" is a better film than "Rambo: First Blood Part II." I do not criticize it for its historical awkwardness-one must judge the movie from when it was made and not by all of the things that have happened since that time. Simply put, in the last film Rambo fought the country of Vietnam and the Russians. In this film, he takes on the Russians in Afghanistan. The action is better in this film than the previous one and I was more entertained. Aside from the action aspects, however, the dialogue is even more pathetic than the second one. This is, of course, with the exception of the monologue one of the Afghanistan rebels makes. But the dialogue has been minimized in this film to a ridiculous level-there is hardly any talking at all. That's okay, however. All I really wanted to see was Rambo and that big knife anyhow. I was also interested in the final stage of character development the writers tried to pull off in the first couple of minutes. Trautman tries to convince Rambo that he is nothing more than a fighting machine-a killer. One would think, or hope, that John's mentor would have higher hopes for him. Instead, he reduces Rambo to nothing more than a killing machine. Sure, he's a character that overcomes oppression to bring brutal justice to thousands. But he is still nothing more than a killing machine.
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Summary: WAY BETTER THAN PART II
Review: THIS TIME, RAMBO GOES TO AFGHANISTAN TO RESCUE HIS FORMER COMMANDING OFFICER. A HUGE IMPROVEMENT OVER PART II. THIS MOVIE IS FILLED WITH THE USUAL EXPLOSIONS AND SHOOTOUTS THAT ONE WOULD EXPECT FROM A RAMBO MOVIE, BUT IT'S ALL ACTUALLY ENTERTAINING. I WOULD HONESTLY SAY THAT THIS SEQUEL CAN POSSIBLY COMPARE TO THE FIRST MOVIE. GET TO YOUR LOCAL BEST BUY STORE AND BUY THIS ONE NOW!
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Summary: This time Rambo goes to the Soviet Union's "Vietnam"
Review: Having been betrayed by his government a couple of times too often, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) needed a better motive to leap back into action for "Rambo III." This is provided when Colonel Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) goes off to Afghanistan to help the Mujahedeen rebels fight the Soviet invaders only to be captured by Colonel Zaysen (Marc de Jonge). Rambo, who had refused to go with Trautman because he is in Thailand becoming a Buddhist, now heads for Afghanistan on an unauthorized rescue mission. "Rambo III" has the formula down, which is a way of saying the plot is totally predictable and an excuse for a whole lot of explosions. Rambo is the most buffed up Buddhist the world has ever seen and I have a minor theory that he has the whole Sampson thing going with his hair getting longer in each movie. This 1988 film was not only the most expensive film ever made when it was released (a whopping $63 million in those pre-"Titanic" days), but made it into the "Guiness Book of World Records" as the most violent film ever made with a grand total of 221 acts of violence and over 108 deaths (it must be the former number that is important because a whole lot of nukes go off at the end of "Dr. Strangelove" and the entire planet exploded at the end of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes").
Once again, the political dimensions of a "Rambo" film came into play, with the series shifting to Afghanistan, which was being called the Soviet Union's Vietnam, a metaphor that actually turned out to be more than wishful thinking. True, the Mujahedeen of yesterday became the Taliban down the road, but I still remember when the American public applauded the idea that the Shah of Iran had been deposed and replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeni. But in 1988 "Rambo III" was considered an exercise in freedom fighting and the Soviet Union was still the Evil Empire. The obvious analog to "Rambo III" is "Rocky IV," in which Stallone continues to explore American-Soviet relationships. However, today "Rambo III" has been stripped of its politics and reduced to a non-stop action film. If there was some creativity to go along with the violence, as in the forest sequence in the original "First Blood," then this film would be able to rise about the level of cartoon violence, but that is not the case.
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Summary: RAMBO RIDES WITH THE TALIBAN!!! SEND HIM TO CUBA!
Review: IMAGINE REAGAN GIVING ALL THOSE TALIBAN NUT CASES ROCKETS TO SHOOT AT US 20 YEARS+ LATER... EMBARRASSING! IT'S ALMOST COMICAL TO SEE THE TALIBAN DISPLAYED AS HERO'S RIDING ALONG WITH RAMBO, WHEN NOW WE GET NON STOP EVIL DOER TALK ABOUT THEM. OOOOPS, TODAY RAMBO WOULD BE SENT TO CUBA FOR BEING A TRAITOR. THE MOVIE IS GOOD THOUGH, CHECK IT OUT LOTS OF GOOD ACTION, CEPT RAMBO IS NOW A TRAITOR...
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Summary: Worthwhile sequel for Stallone fans
Review: Rambo III is a good sequel that doesn't match the success of the two movies that came before it. Troubled Vietnam vet John Rambo is working at a monastery in Thailand when Colonel Trautman shows up to ask him if he wants to go along on a mission. Rambo turns him down, but when he finds out Trautman has been captured by Soviets in Afghanistan, he goes after him to try and rescue him. The plot is predictable, but it is still an entertaining movie. There is plenty of great action throughout as Rambo battles the Soviets alongside the Afghan rebels. If you liked the first two movies in the series, you'll probably like Rambo III. Sylvester Stallone is good as Vietnam veteran, John Rambo. He has little to say the whole movie instead just staring at someone or firing a gun. Either way, his performance is basically the same as the others. Richard Crenna returns again as Colonel Samuel Trautman who Rambo must attempt to save from the evil Soviets. The two of them are very good together in the scenes they have. Marc de Jonge sneers his way through the role as Colonel Zaysen, the leader of the Soviet forces. The Special Edition DVD offers commentaries, a documentary about Afghanistan, production notes, and widescreen presentation. For an enjoyable action romp with plenty of explosions, check out Rambo III!
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Summary: hello, hello mr rambo
Review: my name is denise and i'm frigid, but my boyfriend want have
s. e. x. all the time and i won't give him any, but after watching this movie, i told my fat ass boyfriend to dress like rambo and he might get some, so he did, i don't know where he found all these stuff, but boy imagine h0rny fat 267 pound man, out of shape in rambo cloths, i was laughing till i pooped, yeah he was pothetic in bed, all those talk about love and how strong he is, he only lusted 50 sec. but what's funny about it, he started thinking about himself as a rambo, he even bought a band for his bold had, he look like pothetic overweight heart attack patient, and he thinks i'm deeply in love with him, me and my girlfriends are tired of laughing at him, behind his back of cousre, but you should see him walking and saying i fired a few shots, the only shots he fired is from his fat hairy ass.
thank you rambo for giving me so much pleasure of making a clown out of my boyfriend
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Summary: no man will become rambo
Review: This is just a movie, a reminder for those of you who take rambo and speak of rambo as a real life person, this movie based on previous two, which were really successfull in us and europe, so
if hollywood can cash in on it, you got rambo 3. this movie is not to be taking seriously, i say hot shots part deux is more serious then this movie, this movie gives what it meant to give one man violent entertainment.
this movie is for that special night with your girlfriend, cheap fun, unless you thing your girlfriend will want man like rambo, instead of you, then get something else, but just remember movie is a movie, how many men were fooled by it and became soldiers to look like rambo and impress females, then realizing, too late, that in real life it is totally different, and no amount of training will protect anyone from unexpected bullet, don't be fools, real war is much, much worst and not a cheap hollywood entertainment you could turn off when you tired of violence...
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Summary: This time Rambo goes to the Soviet Union's "Vietnam"
Review: Having been betrayed by his government a couple of times too often, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) needed a better motive to leap back into action for "Rambo III." This is provided when Colonel Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) goes off to Afghanistan to help the Mujahedeen rebels fight the Soviet invaders only to be captured by Colonel Zaysen (Marc de Jonge). Rambo, who had refused to go with Trautman because he is in Thailand becoming a Buddhist, now heads for Afghanistan on an unauthorized rescue mission. "Rambo III" has the formula down, which is a way of saying the plot is totally predictable and an excuse for a whole lot of explosions. Rambo is the most buffed up Buddhist the world has ever seen and I have a minor theory that he has the whole Sampson thing going with his hair getting longer in each movie. This 1988 film was not only the most expensive film ever made when it was released (a whopping $63 million in those pre-"Titanic" days), but made it into the "Guiness Book of World Records" as the most violent film ever made with a grand total of 221 acts of violence and over 108 deaths (it must be the former number that is important because a whole lot of nukes go off at the end of "Dr. Strangelove" and the entire planet exploded at the end of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes").
Once again, the political dimensions of a "Rambo" film came into play, with the series shifting to Afghanistan, which was being called the Soviet Union's Vietnam, a metaphor that actually turned out to be more than wishful thinking. True, the Mujahedeen of yesterday became the Taliban down the road, but I still remember when the American public applauded the idea that the Shah of Iran had been deposed and replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeni. But in 1988 "Rambo III" was considered an exercise in freedom fighting and the Soviet Union was still the Evil Empire. The obvious analog to "Rambo III" is "Rocky IV," in which Stallone continues to explore American-Soviet relationships. However, today "Rambo III" has been stripped of its politics and reduced to a non-stop action film. If there was some creativity to go along with the violence, as in the forest sequence in the original "First Blood," then this film would be able to rise about the level of cartoon violence, but that is not the case.
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Summary: Just have to get this off my chest!
Review: Onreading luckylynx's review for this movie, I was quite simply disgusted by the over-awing ignorance it showed. When he talks about Rambo helping the Taliban 'enslave' the Afghan people, and later about how Afghanistan 'fell' to the freedom fighters(the people), I wonder if he has his head screwed on wrong. He seems to support the Soviet occupation, and the mass murder it entailed(even scarier when this particular facet of that war is so forcibly thrown in your face in the movie). Then he calls the freedom fighters 'jihadists'. The day risking your life to save your homeland from foreign invasion becomes an act of terrorism as luckylynx insinuates, is a sad day for mankind indeed. If the US fell to an imaginary superpower in the name of 'regime change', I would fight to the death. Not only Americans are patriots. When he then implies that the Afganistan was responsible for 911, my heart breaks at his lack of intelligence and/or moral fiber. The Taliban, although more repressive than we Westerners might like, had nothing to do with that nasty piece of work. Direct your anger at our 'friends' the Saudis, who sponored Osama. Calling the little kid an 'al Quaeda kid', is also extremely ignorant. Just had to get that off my chest.
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