| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

The orgy of violence, as ghastly as in any video game, should go a long way toward erasing whatever goodwill Stallone earned with his sentimental Rocky Balboa.

| Dec 16, 2008

Now we are no longer observing the icon... we are the icon.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2008

The film does for the Myanmar genocide what I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry did for same-sex marriage...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

The hero's iconic inertia is photographed against molten skies or Judgment Day sunsets, providing moments of mythic repose between the pell-mell battle scenes.

| Feb 22, 2008

Little more than a cartoon, Rambo caters only for those still smitten by the rat-a-tat of continuous gunfire.

| Feb 22, 2008

At times there is something weirdly comforting about the film's no-frills, fundamentalist zeal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2008

Stallone may believe that he can turn back the clock to the golden era of his career, but I'm not convinced that this kind of brutal, bellicose naivety sits so well with audiences any more.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 22, 2008

Less a war movie than a turkey shoot in a ketchup factory.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2008

90 minutes of violence. No more, no less.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Feb 22, 2008

Rambo could have been a satisfying romp - wherein bad dialogue and cardboard characters can be forgiven - but for the sin of making the main man step to the sidelines in favour of charisma-free fillers. Bad move, Sly...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2008

Stallone is in desperate need of reinvention, but he seems myopically focused on rehashing the past rather than exploring the future.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 1, 2008

As the current obsession with Reagan suggests, it's back to fantasyland!

Full Review | Jan 29, 2008

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.

| Original Score: C | Jan 27, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Well-shot and well-edited violence porn.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2008

No longer is Rambo killing for a cause, but for kicks. And his portentous blather, even by Rambo standards, becomes unintentionally hilarious.

| Jan 25, 2008

"So they send in the devil to do God's work," says a hulking Australian mercenary, part of the rescue attempt. "It's ironic, isn't it?" Highly ironic. The implications of that irony are not explored in the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2008