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Star rating: **
Dir: Sylvester Stallone
With: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden

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Exploding heads, bullets tearing through flesh, throats being ripped out. Ah, haven't you missed Rambo? After resurrecting Rocky, Sylvester Stallone has disinterred his other famous creation. Rambo IV finds the thick-necked hero in Thailand, where some pesky do-gooders enlist his help to get into Burma. After they are kidnapped by the evil military, Rambo has to do what Rambo always does - kill people, in this case 236 of them. Many will object to the extreme violence in Stallone's Rambo movies and the ludicrously simplistic way he divides the world into right and wrong. The man is not going to be the next chair of international relations at Oxford.

Somehow, though, it's comforting to know that the old ham is still out there. He's the filmmaker time forgot, plugging away with his hokey stories, cartoon violence and speak-your-weight dialogue, all in the name of pleasing the audience. In the loathsome Burmese junta he's at least picked a thoroughly deserving target this time. Less forgivable is making a movie that feels tired 20 minutes in and plods painfully onwards from there.

12:04am Thursday 21st February 2008

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