….but we all wish they would.  Like a bad case of acid reflux Sly just keeps coming back, and like reflux it’s aggravating and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.  WHY?!??!?!?!?! Why dig up these fossils?  Has Hollywood completely run out of ideas?

Did Sly think that Rambo could withstand the same resurrection Rocky did?  First of all Rocky won an Oscar and was a hell of a lot more developed as a character than the monosyllabic John J.  Don’t misunderstand me here, I loved First Blood.  Hell, I still watch it occasionally.  But what makes First Blood work is that the writer’s understood one vital thing and kept Sly’s dialogue to less than 100 words in a two hour time span.  It worked; it was beautiful.  Right up until the end when he starts blubbering about fast cars and shoe shines, but before he can get to far into it Colonel Troutman comes in and saves him again.  Where was Colonel Troutman in Rambo 4?  At home thanking God in heaven above that he wasn’t being laughed at.

The whole premise of the movie is just flawed.  A group of missionaries come to Burma and try to hire Rambo to take them to a camp up river.  Rambo says no.  That should have been the end of the movie. Thank you can I have my $7.50, oh to hell with it keep the money I just want my time back.  BUT NO…….The girl who is with these missionaries throws out some trite speech about duty and Rambo says "NO, go home" (I should have listened).  Then we cut to Rambo asleep which was the best part of the movie IMHO….no no not because here was finally some believable acting, but because of the flash back to better movies, I mean earlier times in Rambo’s life.  Then he wakes up and goes outside and the female missionary is waiting in the rain.  She spits out a cliche, then Rambo in an attempt to one up her spits out another cheesy cliche and the battle of shitty acting ensues and finally Sly agrees to escort the group.  It’s all completely ridiculous.  The first mortar to hit the camp is probably one of the better parts of the movie after that it just goes downhill.

If you must see this film then you will want to get used to this picture, it’s seriously like 20 to 30 minutes of the movie.   If you want to feel like you are actually in the movie with Rambo invite a friend over to sing some stupid songs while you ask the picture of Stallone "What the fuck are you looking at, boatman?" in an english accent.  

All that being said the movie is entertaining for the simple fact that it is mindless violence, but do your self a favor.  Download it off the interWebs….I mean wait for it to hit DvD which shouldn’t be too long of a wait.