Rating: 8/10

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writers: Sylvester Stallone, Art Monterastelli, David Morrell
Studio: Lionsgate

I'm going to make this very brief, because there is only really one main topic you can discuss when it comes to this character.

The final installment of the Rambo series, which was 20 years in the making, finds Rambo being hired by Christian missionaries (lead by the beautiful Julie Benz) to take them by boat to a village in Burma to aid the wounded. Burma is known for being the most dangerous war zones of our time and innocent people are brutally murdered there by the minute. You can already guess what happens next. The group of missionaries get captured and it's up to Rambo to rescue them before it's too late.

In this review, I'm going to discuss simile. I will be comparing RAMBO with TRANSFORMERS. When watching the trailer for RAMBO, you notice he has his arrow steady at his target, and then he begins his speech, "Live for nothing, or die for something!" If you area Rambo fan, you would obviously know this type of film doesn't focus too much on dialogue. The age demographic 40+ will with out a doubt love it though.

So why the TRANSFORMERS comparison? Well, like TRANSFOMERS, you are not going to see RAMBO for some epic dialogue. You went to see TRANSFORMERS to see huge trucks and buses turn into robots and destroy others alike. As for RAMBO you're here to see John Rambo cut heads off, kill people with his bare hands, and "Let the bodies hit the floor" if you payed attention to detail on the trailer.

The one scene that will forever be embedded in my head is when three soldiers throw landmine-like bombs in some muddy trenches, force civilians to run through to the other side as fast as they can, and bet on who will step on the mine first. Sylvester wanted to show the true nature of what's happening daily in Burma, and he did just that. Some might accuse this film as being too brutal, but again, he wants us to know the disgusting things that these Burmese soldiers are doing to the people in surrounding villages.

It is what it is.

Today I got the opportunity to interview Martin McDonagh. Some of you may know him as the guy who won an Oscar for the short film Six Shooter, but for the ones that live in caves, he's the writer/director of the Colin Farrell/Brendan Gleeson/Ralph Fiennes dark comedy flick, In Bruges. He loves pubs and women! He's just like you and me!

The Invasion

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Jones, and Daniel Craig
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
In yet another needless reworking of Invasion Body of the Snatchers. Alien germs come to earth via a space shuttle and start taking over human bodies. Psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Kidman) realizes what is going on and using her infected son tries to develop a cure for the contaminated people.
The Invasion had a difficult journey to the screen. The film went though two different directors while shooting and several pushed back release dates. Yet, somehow the film still looks unfinished. Both the music and editing are unpolished, and several scenes look like they were just rough cuts never meant be in the final version of the film. Invasion’s stale story is made even less thrilling and moving by the film’s obvious technical flaws. Although the film does feature some of the best Mountain Dew product placement shots ever captured in a feature length film.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Starring: Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchel
Directed by: Seth Gordon
This is a documentary about the world of competitive arcade gaming. The film centers on Steve Wiebe’s journey to top current champion Billy Mitchel’s high score in the arcade game Donkey Kong.
Whoever knew Donkey Kong could be so cutthroat or entertaining? Arcade games may not be your thing but the film’s eccentric characters make this an enjoyable and engaging documentary.

Also being released: Daddy Day Camp, Trade, Bordertown, and The Comebacks

It's finally here. After many long, and sometimes very frustrating, hours (days... weeks, actually) the new layout and design is up. There are still a few bugs to work out and a few more features that will be added as the days pass. The whole concept of the redesign was to make it easier for you to get around the site and locate what you're looking for. Hopefully (within the next few days), we will be able to accomplish that.

A little bit of a warning: If you are using Internet Explorer you're most likely having problems with the website due to the fact that IE doesn't know how to keep up with web standards.

Anyway, feel free to leave us some comments about the new layout. Email me at [email protected] if you are having problems.

Here is a look back (for old-times sake):

Visually, there is nothing Michel Gondry cannot do with a video camera. He's like the Macguver of movie making. Give him toilet paper and a glass of water and he'll make that into a visual epic. In this new trailer for his upcoming film Be Kind Rewind, he acts/shoots/and edits (swede if you will) everything from the original trailer, which you can watch HERE. I mean, watching Michel successfully reenact both parts of Jack Black and Mos Def is nothing less than brilliance. Enjoy!

There's lots of buzz floating around with director Matt Reeves talking about making a sequel to his 46 million/highest grossing in January movie, Cloverfield.

If you haven't seen the movie, stop reading here.
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Want something beautiful to sing to your girlfriend when you take her to Cici's Pizza tonight? What you're looking for can probably be found in this video.

EDIT: Evidently Firefox doesn't know how to work properly sometimes so instead of posting the video, just click HERE to view the new "Love Me Sexy" video for Semi-Pro from New Line. Trust me, you need to.

Check back in a few days for our upcoming Semi-Pro contest.

Rambo

Written and Directed by The Italian Stallion himself.
Tagline: Heroes never die.... They just reload.

If you didn't already know this movie was going to be released tomorrow, you are probably shopping around the wrong movie websites. Stallone. Gore. Dexter's girlfriend. Headbands. Tomorrow is going to be a good day to car pool to the local cinema.
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When Robert Rodriguez has a vision, you stay clear out of his way and let him bring that vision to the big screen. For Machete's case, the small screen. Below is the poster for Machete, the fake trailer he did for the first Grindhouse series that's now shot in it's full entirety and will be released direct-to-DVD soon.

"Rated R for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language."

No shit. I think the first raw trailer of Rambo where he's chopping baddies heads off and ripping out their throats would have been the key indication that this is going to be a violent fun fest, but we now have a chart below giving us a history on previous Rambo films, and the one to come. 236 kills in an hour and a half? Bring on the violence John!

RAMBO OPENS WIDE FRIDAY TO A THEATER NEAR YOU.