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Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Moved to take charge by something like chivalry, Rambo hits his stride in the film's second half, meting out justice in an unjust world and ultimately the movie works best when warbling its out-of-tune greatest hits.
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Rambo teaches that fighting sucks, good intentions can be futile, and coalitions of the willing are a charade: A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
The movie does have its own kind of blockheaded poetry.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's 90 minutes of flying, dismembered limbs and explosions of blood, but give the man credit. Stallone can do action. If you want action and nothing but, here it is.
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
This muttering boatman seems to have lost his old-time heroism. No longer is Rambo killing for a cause, but for kicks. And his portentous blather, even by Rambo standards, becomes unintentionally hilarious.
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Like a lost recording by the Beatles, Sylvester Stallone's Rambo arrives with its feet planted firmly in the past, a reminder of a time when Stallone, Chuck Norris and other wooden soldiers of the big screen filled multiplexes with the floor-shaking thunder of trivialized war.
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
In short, No. 4 is one big snore.
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Boston Globe
Rambo isn't dull. It is, however, often murkily directed, a real shortcoming in an action movie. In the big rescue-the-prisoners sequence, it's very hard to keep track of who is doing what to whom where.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
There is a blessed dearth of dialogue, but much of it is unintentionally hilarious.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
With its first-person-shooter perspective and gun-andrun narrative, this one's for the PlayStation crowd. It's not a movie. It's an adrenaline pump and purveyor of raw carnage.
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