stormhawk2018 Rambo III, like its progenitors, is nothing more than a Yankee product to spread the sentiment of love for the country and to foment hatred towards all those who oppose in their way to achieve their imperialist goals and at the same time to recruit more young people For the ranks of his army. While in the previous feature films the message is smoother, the thing gets worse with each movie.Frankly, I am a fervent follower of First Blood, a film that dealt with the suffering of the Vietnam veterans returning to the country for which they had offered their lives and how they returned to their homes treated as thugs and murderers, All wrapped in a plot of action without limits, really funny and exciting. That message has a more human touch, it reaches the heart more; For a moment you are able to empathize with those men who only did their work, only obeyed orders and were the most affected after the end of the war, being socially rejected in their country.As of Rambo II the thing already begins to lose, but is that the third delivery is really insufferable. And as the quality of the film diminishes, the bellicose and pro-Yankee propaganda increases. Now the message is not that you understand the suffering of the soldiers, but that you join with them to destroy all the devilish, cruel and ruthless enemies of the USA (the Russians, the Vietnamese and any heartless communists who don't kiss the feet).The film can not be more predictable, the moments of action are unnecessarily long and with little emotion, the Russians are VERY bad guys, while the Afghans are VERY good guys (I would have been grateful if Peter MacDonald would have known what was going to happen in 2001, maybe not The dialogue seems to have been written by a five-year-old boy and in general the plot is so simple and propagandistic that it ends up tiring and boring to the neuron hidden in the most hidden corner of the brain.I put a 4 because First Blood continues and will continue to be one of the best action films of his time and I would not like to stain such an honorable title with a 1, although frankly, this film deserves it.

Mr-Fusion Well, if John Rambo's not fighting Vietnam anymore, where do you go with a third movie? Hey, what if he shoots a middle finger to the Russians in the mountains of Afghanistan? And shoot the bird he does as the bodies and explosions pile up. There's serious money backing this movie; it's evident in the grander scale, locations and upgraded choppers. Add to that Stallone's camera-friendly physique and godlike stature, this is a big movie. But despite the uptick in violence, there are long stretches of surprising dullness. The movie's never really as good as the opening back-alley fight in Thailand ("Hot Shots" knew it). It's decent, if only for seeing the franchise at its loudest.6/10

connorbbalboa Last time we saw John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), he had freed American P.O.W.s from a Viet Cong prison camp and shot down a whole regiment of the Soviet army with hardly any battle scars. Here, he's doing the same thing, except now he's rescuing his former superior, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), and he's in Afghanistan. How did this happen? Well, after watching Rambo in a stick-fight in Thailand, Trautman and an agent played by Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker from Robocop) follow him to a Buddhist monastery with the hopes that he'll join Trautman on a mission to give Afghan rebels Stinger missiles to fight the Soviets. Rambo refuses, not wanting to give up a life of peace, and Trautman goes in without him and gets captured. Hearing this, Rambo just decides to go in and get him back without a shred of doubt.This is easily the most pointless entry in the Rambo series for a multitude of reasons. First off, the film plays up the idea that Rambo needs to "come full circle" and accept that he is a combat soldier at heart. Trautman tells him all he did was "chip away the rough edges." Whatever happened to "God didn't make Rambo. I made him?" Is Trautman a liar? Throughout the film, Rambo defends the Afghans from the Soviets and by the end...just goes back home and doesn't seem to have changed one bit. We don't get any indication that he has "come full circle," so that's just a bunch of BS.Also, I'm really getting sick of Trautman. For the past couple of movies, he's been telling everyone how good Rambo is at what he does. In the first film, he does so to warn Teasle and the state police about how dangerous he could be when they hunt him. In the second, he does it to tell Murdock how good he is for the mission, and to warn him not to mess with Rambo when Murdock reveals his true intentions. Here, it's just too much. Even the scene where he tries to get Rambo to come with him on the mission is frustrating. It sounds like he's just trying to come up with excuses to get Rambo fighting again. He might as well be one of those action-obsessed kids fat on popcorn who loves these kinds of films. Stallone also seems pretty bored except during the action scenes.Once again, Rambo shows almost no indication that he's a traumatized war veteran except in the stick-fight where he seems he might let his anger get the best of him. Shame it was just that one scene, but at least somebody working on the film remembered that aspect of Rambo's character. His being in Afghanistan however, is completely out of place for what his character is about. The essence of Rambo's character is tightly-knitted with the Vietnam War and the poor treatment of American soldiers who fought in that war. If Rambo's in Afghanistan, nothing can be done to bring that point across. Basically, this film just comes off as an excuse for Rambo to go off somewhere and shoot more Communists. The fact that Trautman has a line comparing the Soviet-Afghan War to Vietnam doesn't help matters.Some additional problems are that once again, the Communist villains are one-dimensional and they think that endlessly torturing their prisoners will make them more menacing. It doesn't work that way, guys. Sorry. Also, there's an annoying kid living with the Afghan rebels who's a soldier (I can hear the political outcries already), who always wants to fight with Rambo and does nothing to help, and yet, Rambo eventually gives him his good luck charm (see the previous movie to learn about that little subplot). He's more like one of those annoying kids from sci-fi B-movies who are only there to make things harder for the main protagonists. He almost gets himself and Rambo killed for that matter.The cinematography is still great and the action is still fun (even if you know that the film's going to do nothing to serve character and story in a movie like this, enjoying the action means you get something out of it), but those positives alone can't make a movie like this great. By now, the subtext, commentary, and seriousness of First Blood (first in this series) is non-existent and Rambo 3 is just sub-par action shoot 'em up with nothing to stick around for. Quite a fall from greatness, I must say.

CinemaClown The third instalment in the Rambo film franchise, Rambo III has the raw energy & unflinching brutality of its predecessors and is a typical example of 1980s action cinema but unlike the last two chapters, it's also grated with lots of cheese which turns it campy at times but then again, it makes up for that drawback with its impressive action set pieces.Rambo III finds the Vietnam-war veteran residing in Thailand when he's approached by his former commanding officer who asks for his assistance in delivering supplies to anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan. Tired of fighting, Rambo refuses the offer but when he's captured by the Soviet forces, Rambo goes on a solo mission to rescue him from his captors.Directed by Peter MacDonald & co-written by Sylvester Stallone, Rambo III lies very much on the same scale as First Blood Part II for it puts Rambo against the same enemy, only in a different setting. Once again, it's the action elements that keeps the momentum going even if those sequences can be predicted from afar, plus the character of Rambo remains inert to vulnerability.The film ups the ante on body counts & explosions, a welcome aspect, but its violence isn't affecting on an emotional scale. The desert locations & set pieces provide a little authentic feel to its setting, its 101 minutes of runtime is felt at times, and as far as performances go, Stallone dons the Rambo suit as per expectations but it's also good to see Richard Crenna getting more screen time than before.On an overall scale, Rambo III is another fine entry in the Rambo saga that further solidifies the legacy of its titular character, features a few cool moments of action over the course of its runtime but just like the last one, it's no match to First Blood. Surfacing at the time when Cold War themed action was becoming a thing of the past, Rambo III somehow manages to be an enjoyable ride, thanks to Stallone's screen persona & good dose of warfare.