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''Who are you?''
''Your worst nightmare!''
Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and its up to Rambo to rescue him.
Sylvester Stallone: Rambo
Richard Crenna: Trautman
Well Rambo 3 the third in the original trilogy, not including the latest one, is a classic example of what happens when a formula starts to flag and lose it's spark.
The premise being his friend Colonel Trautman asks for his help, in typical Rambo style he refuses and then he gets kidnapped firing Rambo into action to save his friend from psychopathic Communist Soviets.
He makes allies with the Afghans who are being slaughtered by the Russians. Hang on don't these people become terrorists I hear everyone thinking.
It's ok the movie will get better, I'm nodding off through the first half. Then this Russian dude who questions the Colonel comes on and in his room they have crammed as many stereotypical Russian things as they can, ranging from a pic of Lenin, to the chess set and he's even smoking a ciggy like a typical Rusky. I mean come off it.
Not to mention all this righteous bullshit with Rambo and all this Buddhist philosophies then we see him having a scrap in some over crowded scene. What a joke!
The Russian Chopper, rain of death machine that appears throughout Rambo 3 reminded me of Metal Gear Solid and I can see also Hideo must have drawn some influence from this Rambo too as well as that Escape from New York film. The lines are typical cheese which are so bad it makes you laugh which offers a paradoxical watching element, if that makes sense.
Richard Crenna gets to actually fight for the first time I've seen in a Rambo movie, plus that guy from Robocop shows up near the start with his slappy forehead Kurtwood Smith.
Sylvestor Stallone could mumble his way out of a paper bag. His acting isn't the highlight of this, it's got to be the action. Plus that black vest really didn't look right to me. All or nothing, his muscles did look abit dodgy in areas. Definitely a let down after the two magnificent predecessors.
I really do feel Rambo 3 is the first movie that I've seen where the Afghan's are glorified in an American film. Granted they may have trouble but when you have people like the Taliban or Al-Qaeda it makes you wonder why an American Hero like Rambo would be helping them. I'm going to go with the time the film was made and that they aren't all bad in their defense.
Love the killer lines the colonel and Rambo have when faced with the Russian forces in the desert:
Zaysen:"Drop your weapons! Now! You have no chance of escape! Come forward! I wish to take you back alive! This is your last warning! The choice is yours!"
Colonel Trautman: "What do you say John?"
Rambo: [loading his gun] "Fuck 'em!"
Ultimately Rambo 3 ends up being incredibly boring for its first half then it goes into loads of action but the violence I felt was diluted and not as gory as the first two. As a whole it was a disappointment, that has a bland ending that didn't quite bowl me over like the first two were able too.
6/10
