Rambo III

John Rambo!! Silvester Stallone is awesome!!

I need luck.. ken I hev it?

Bigger, more. That is the motto of the third Rambo movie. Fighting the Russian army, who have state of the Art attack helicopters, with horses and old rifles. Cool.
The movie has evidently not aged well, as those are the exact enemies the US was fighting in their subsequent war with Afghanistan. Anyway, it is excellent entertainment and was never meant to be a documentary of real events.

Rambo 3 is a fun, action-packed adventure that delivers exactly what it promises: an over-the-top spectacle with a hint of political commentary. It won't win awards for its originality or character development, but it's a satisfying entry for fans of the Rambo franchise and 80s action cinema in general. Just be prepared for a film that leans more towards explosions than emotional depth.

"What is it." - "Blue light" - "And what does it do?" - "It turns blue"

At least in Germany this is one of the best known movie quotes that even people know who have never seen any of the movies in this movie series. After the excellent "First Blood" (10/10) and the rather disastrous sequel "Rambo - First Blood Part 2" (4/10), we get third installment "Rambo III", in which John Rambo has retired in Thailand, living peacefully among monks. However, when his former commander gets captured and his fate is left to him, Rambo decides to get active once more. He travels to Afghanistan and is aided by Afghan Mujahideen (i.e. people engaged in Jihad) who during the time of the cold war where of course supported by the U.S. army in their fight against the invading Russians under their communist regime.

Different to the last movie, this one is really good once again, even though in general there are a few parallels to the last movie: Rambo has to meet up with his contact, find a prison camp, sneak in, and get out the prisoner, which does not work right from the beginning, so he has to return, fight some more enemies until he can safe the prisoners. However, this time it's really captivating. The plot is sound, there aren't many plot holes, the action good, and not as overdone as in Part 2 - even though it's probably more. The enemy is interesting as well, and not as stupid as in the last movie. We also get some thrilling sneak and hide scenes, and a lot clever usages of blue light :D They are also hopelessly outnumbered, take some hits. Yet the body count is probably equally high as in the predecessor, and there are a number of rather innovative killing scenes that are really fun to watch.

Plus we also get some decent tag alongs that can actually pull their weight, have more personality and that actually have some chemistry with Rambo. So to me, while it cannot get near to the first movie in any way, it is still a solid, fun to watch and also fun to re-watch typical action movie that is captivating and never boring. Even though its a 102 minutes long time really passes by - something I could not say about the second installment that over long parts was boring and where I was often looking at the blu-ray counter to see how long it would still last.

And thankfully there wasn't yet another bad attempt to copy the ingenious monologue scene from the end of the first movie. Instead we get a text card just before the credits roll in:

> "This film is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan"

For today's standards this seems rather awkward, but keep remembering: It where other times back then.

Stallone always does an awesome job in his films

10❤- Masterpiece 💯
9❤- Excellent
8❤ - Amazing 👌
7❤- Great 🌞
6❤ - Good 👍
5❤ - Average 🤕
4❤ - Bad but watchable :octagonal_sign:
3❤ - Bad 😭
2😡- Awful :face_vomiting:
1:face_with_symbols_over_mouth: - Bull Shit

An under-rated 3rd film that is better than the last two Rambos. Since it remembers to not take itself too seriously. Even if a lot of it feels like Rambo 2 all over again. With a villain who can conveniently fly a helicopter.
The newer movies also aren’t as good without Richard Crenna. Who died a couple of years before Rambo 4.

Someone must have been thinking "that middle section from part II was good, let's make that into another movie". There are obviously many similar scenes. And why not ? At least here the Russians don't feel misplaced.
They were painting them as evil as they possibly can. And they are using every cliché in the book. Well, it was still the Cold War and that`s what people wanted to see.
Despite all of that this is still a good action movie where almost everything looks so much better than a lot of the one's that came after this one. Here's to practical photography.
Again, this doesn't reach at part one and for me that is mostly attributed to the fact, that in the first the action served the delivery of the message. It now feels like the message is the excuse for the action.
Heck, still aged much better than I thought it would and some of the one-liners are still homeruns.

Kind of ironic watching late 80ies movies about afghanistan today, knowing how it turns out in the end...

This movie would have been a lot shorter if they had WhatsApp.