Anybody else thinking this is the action movie of the year so far and prob the rest of it? Gotta admit to being a bit suprised, thought it was gonna be a pile of crap!

It is a pile of crap lol

FWIW, I did enjoy the other Rambo films but he's just too old now.

It was a wicked movie. 80s style action. Stallone totally kicked ass in it. I found it too short though, and without much of a story.

Rambo 4 was awesome. It had all the hallmarks of an '80s action movie: reactionary political themes, gayness, and a herculean body count. What made the movie for me, however, was the exploitive swerve Rambo 4 took in the 2nd half. The movie seemed to be taking its cues more from Eli Roth, or more accurately Ruggero Deodato, than it was from the first 3 films in the series. What sealed it for me is the part when Rambo ripped off the front of a bad guy's neck with his bare hands. I wonder if the work Sly's son Sage has done with Grindhouse Releasing had an impact on the tone of the film.

I hope they make a Rambo 5. Stallone is good at killing people on screen.

i never get tired of talking about this movie. it was ****ing awesome

Too true it was a quality movie, made even better as I'd been to Burma 2 weeks before I saw it.
Roll on Rambo 5, rumor is it's gonna be set in the States with Rambo taking out a terrorist organization.

This was the first action movie released in a while with serious balls. I'm a huge Die Hard fan, and I was crushed when I saw that the newest version was PG-13. "Yipee-Ki-Yay Mother-junker?" Say it ain't so John McClain. Rambo 4 simply ruled. We need a 60 year old action star to show these CGI kids how things are done. And I loved the preview I saw for that movie Midnight Meat Train. Best/worst movie title of the year.

It is definitely not a pile of crap.

Stallone again (after Rocky Balboa) somehow figured out a way to make an absolutely ludicrous, decades-too-late sequel idea actually work. Of course there are problems with the acting, writing, and supporting characters throughout the first two acts of the movie. But in that third act, we see a 60+ year old action hero who we haven't seen in 20 years once again become an omnipotent, demonic beast. And that third act is done exceedingly well.

Basically all they needed to do was make sure the set-up was decent and "realistic" enough to set-up the 20-minute rampage, and they succeeded.