Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Always at ground zero in the chaos is Rambo -- gloriously, inhumanly impervious to fear and danger -- whose character is inhabited by Stallone with messianic intensity.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
14 Jan 2008
fresh:
Mr. Stallone has by now made Rambo parody-proof, since the character is every bit as laughable as he is grandiose; that's part of the fun.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Rambo may, in fact, have outlived his usefulness. His moment may have passed.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Stallone scripts the wall-to-wall explosions too haphazardly and unimaginatively.