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Rambo meets Saw
nick98 from ,
4th March, 2010
There's one good thing going for this film, if that's what floats your boat. This is a Rambo film in name and lead character only. The plot/story line, whatever you want to call it, is completely immeterial. It's been done to death. Jungle rescue, blah follows blah follows blah.... Anyway, that's not important. What keeps you hooked and finally just made me laugh out loud when yet another body exploded in a cloud of arms, legs and intestines, is the absolute unrelenting violence. None of these films will ever be as good as First Blood, so, to keep dragging it on, it's been turned into the most gratuitous kill fest I've ever seen. Exploding heads started to get boring, limbs being torn off, bodies split in two, it kept going and going. But not content with that, there're children being shot, bayoneted, burnt and blown up, people being fed alive to pigs, which the camera has to get a close up of, disembowelling, intestines flying about and even a guy exploding from being shot with a heavy machine gun from about, ooh, three feet. And then his human ooze is smeared all over the armoured plate of the gun. There's nothing new or original about the story whatsoever. It's even quite a badly made film, some of the SFX are just dire and some of it has painfully obviously been sped up. It's a dire film. I had to keep watching it for the next imaginative deaths though. It's just that they never were, as I think I'd seen them done in all the other films I've seen. Rambo just packed it all into one and I tired of it well before the end. It kept me going though. Had it not been for the gratuitous violence, I'd likely have switched it off half way through and given it half a star. Death by heavy machine gun from three feet got it two stars. Just.
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