-Rambo (R)
by Dr. D ~ February 1st, 2008
Lionsgate, January 25, 2008, Directed by Sylvester Stallone, 88 minutes, Cast: Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo), Julie Benz (Sarah), Paul Schulze (Michael Burnett), Matthew Marsden (Schoolboy), Graham McTavish (Lewis), Tim Kang (En-Joo), Rey Gallegos (Diaz), Jake LaBotz (Reese), Maung Maung Khin (Tint), Ken Howard (Pastor Arthur Marsh).
The film opens with the ageless Vietnam vet hunting down snakes for a living and running a longboat service on the Salween River. Along comes some medical missionaries from Colorado and solicit his services to take them up river into Burma to help Christian Karen villages in the midst of persecution and civil war.
He asks them if they plan on taking weapons to the villagers and of coarse they say no. He responds: “Then you ain’t goin’ to change anything! Go home”.
He declines to take them but one of the leaders, Sarah, talks him into the trip. <Read the rest posted on my Movie & TV Commentary blog>
