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(1 - 37) of 37 OFCS Rating: 51% Rotten Page   1   "Stallone still looks terrrific, but 'Rambo' spends too much time showing how much carnage the big screen can take."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B "Rambo delivers big-time and simultaneously gives a big, blood-covered middle finger to all the neutered action movies of late."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3/5 "Just like the actor playing him, our hero no longer looks or acts like his predecessor. Oddly enough, as long as he covers his tracks in the entrails of his enemies, we could really care less."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron B+ "A literal goulash of gore, and I was quite taken with the fearlessness of it all. The overall responsibility of the film is open for debate, but nobody can say that Stallone didn't reach for the bloodied brass ring with this splendidly bonkers concoction."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf "However you parse the character's evolution, Rambo the film shows a peculiar understanding of changes in the industry."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "Stallone has never made a movie as purely intense and visceral as this."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 3/4 "...fans of the [action] genre flat-out owe it to themselves to check out the movie theatrically (if only to encourage the studios to quit making watered-down garbage like Hitman and Live Free or Die Hard)."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "Hollow, hopeless, horridly written and wholly unpleasant. One would be hard-pressed to imagine a conventional narrative being any thinner than the one in Rambo."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C- "A cynical cash-grab, made not because Stallone had some good ideas for the character but because he wanted to capitalize on it."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B- "At its best when it considers the shell of a man its hero has become; the ways that war and violence have become a part of his being, and what that has done to him."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "An entertaining and adult send off to a rather corny character..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. D "The original Rambo movie was actually titled First Blood...This one should be called Entirely Too Much Blood."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "It's a middling movie both in terms of the franchise and in terms of action movies in general."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 9/10 "Click here to read review"   Kinoblog.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 2/4 "For a brief moment in this alarmingly grisly fourth Rambo movie, it seems as though Sylvester Stallone might be (literally and figuratively) trying to say something. Turns out, not."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 3/5 "einai eggyimeno oi palmoi soy na piasoyn ta rpm ton mydraliobolon poy gazonoyn o,ti melapso brethei mprosta toys, ki anoigoyn trypes megalyteres ki ap' tin oikonomiki krisi tis Amerikis, gia na soy serbiroyn ahnista lahtarista antera shimatikon sadiston a"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis A "Sylvester Stallone may be eating at the 4:30 buffet and paying with his AARP card, but he can still make one hell of an action flick."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 3.5/4 "MelGibsonly violent, with a higher bodycount than the other three flicks - put together!"   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 2.5/4 "A brutal, insanely excessive successor to grindhouse pictures of yore."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2.5/4 "Has the gritty realism of the first film and a sadder mood for our hero but still continues Rambo as a soldier for hire involved in a standard plot."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C+ "Qualms about Rambo's contextual appropriateness aside, this guns-ablazing movie works on a primal level, but stiff performances and a musty script has it firing its share of blanks too."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Spare is good: so spare that essentials are missing is not."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/5 "Rambo is exactly the film you want it to be. It has little dialogue, plenty of action, and a nice load of blood and guts splattered throughout."   Bronsonfive   Michael Ferraro C "It loses all meaning and becomes a numbing barrage of blood. We end up wondering how the special effects were achieved instead of investing in the outcome."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "Crass exploitation of a serious issue, yes, and also the type of comic-book cartoonishness that the series has always peddled, regardless of the grim aesthetic and tone employed throughout this installment."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Quando comemorei o retorno de Stallone à boa forma artística, não imaginei que empregaria sua recém-reconquistada influência para realizar algo tão abominável quanto este Rambo IV."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "Watching Rambo and Sarah on screen together, one is reminded less of Rick and Ilsa and more of Kong and Ann Darrow."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "All we get is unintentionally hilarious dialogue in which the characters speak lines that not only seem to have been torn straight from the tag lines of movie posters, they seem to have been selected exclusively from films that went direct-to-video."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "It's unsubtle filmmaking, laying out every nuance for us and playing around with some pretty serious ideas without digging very deep."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "As a piece of crude, ejaculatory guerrilla pulp, the movie is at the head of its class (or lack thereof)."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D+ "I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "It is an effective action movie, but it is awfully bloody."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "Rambo is what it is and, like Rocky Balboa, does it with the spirit of its predecessors."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3/4 "An old man and his knife, sweet"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "The movie is neither cathartic nor entertaining."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 2/10 "Clearly a vanity project, it's graphic and blood-drenched. Stay out of the jungle!"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "The very brutal violence that opens the film casts a pall over the very movie-fake violence that follows."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 37) of 37 OFCS Rating: 51% Rotten Page   1