A 60+ Stallone can still be a bad mother you-know-what!

After seeing the most recent Rocky movie and not being impressed...and upon hearing my younger brother's opinion that the newest Indiana Jones movie in theaters was not worth the time, I thought, "Oh, boy. The 80s action heroes from my childhood are now 60+ and don't have the energy anymore to be the superheros they were 20 or 30 years ago..." However, I was surprised with this 4th Rambo movie.

As many know, Rambo is a Vietnam Veteran who was fending for himself against some local, mountain police force in the 1982 First Blood, then followed by two sequels later on in the 1980s. Now, John Rambo lives in Thailand/Burmese (though I never understood why he left America to go there) where he makes a living finding snakes and selling them to locals entertainment-like groups who use these dangerous snakes for their shows. There is a group of Colorado-based Christian missionairies who are there trying to do gospel work. They want to hire Rambo to help them, but at first he refuses, but then he decided to take them up North in the Burmese region to give help to people.

The Rambo in this latest movie, however, seems pessimistic compared to the Rambo from the 80s, but more practical and realistic. For example, in this movie, he tells the gullible, yet optimistic, Christian missionaries who think they can "change the world" by going to a Burmese region (that's been strife with civil war and oppression going on for over 60 years)that "nothing changes, go home." The first line I liked was when he asked one of the missionairies if they brought any guns for protection. The man said, "of course not!" To which Stallone said, "you're not changing anything"

Now, this latest Rambo is a hell of a lot more bloodier and violent than the earlier ones. You see people getting blown up, their body parts flying everywhere, and you even have a part where Stallone literally rips out a man's intestines and rips out (yes, rips out!) a guys vocal cords when saving a young lady from being raped. Yeah, it's that bloody. But, like I said, Stallone can still be a macho superhero as he was when he was young.

My favorite lines from this movie:

"God didn't save you, we did!"
"They send the devil in here to do God's work"
"They'd raped her and then cut your heads off. Who are you? Who are any of you???!!"
"Live for nothing, die for something"

I don't want to reveal too much, because I'll ruin the movie, but this is a decent third sequel to the Rambo movies.