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Extras: Theatrical Trailer, Teaser, Making Of, Behind the scenes,
Photo Gallery
Director:
Peter MacDonald
(Rambo III)
Producer:
Buzz Feitshans
Screenplay:
Sylvester Stallone and Sheldon Lettich
Music:
Jerry Goldsmith
Cast:
John Rambo: Sylvester Stallone
Colonel Samuel Trautman: Richard Crenna
Col Zaysen: Marc de Jonge
Griggs: Kurtwood Smith
Masoud: Spiros Focás
Mousa: Sasson Gabai
Hamid: Doudi Shoua
Kourov: Randy Raney
Tomask: Marcus Gilbert
"We're trying to make this as realistic as possible",
states Sylvester Stallone in the supplemental material, but that's not
what I thought when I first saw this at the cinema as a few gunshots or an
explosive-tipped arrow causes the imminent destruction of a heavily-armed
chopper, the latter of which caused immense hilarity because the pilot
screams out loud when he spots our hero - as if (!)
Back to reality though and as the summer of 1988 approached I made a bit of
a hash of my GCSEs (well, we were the first ever year to do them and the whole
thing was incredibly badly planned!) and my father took me to the cinema for
some mindless escapism. Yes, I was only 16 when I saw an 18-certificate film,
so sue me :)
While, as the trailer explains, the first mission was for himself and the second
was for his country, this time round it's for his friend. The idea is that
he and Trautman (Richard Crenna) must go into Afghanistan to stop
the slaughter of innocent civilians. All the regions have imported Stinger
missiles to impede air strikes against themselves, bar one. A mad Soviet
has defended his territory so far, but for how long? The government want
the pair to go in and sort it out. Rambo refuses.
However, Trautman gets taken hostage, while the powers that be,
fronted by Griggs (Kurtwood Smith,
Robocop's
Clarence Bodicker) couldn't give a toss, so Rambo must
be tempted out his new Buddhist life (yeah, right!) and help him.
"I'd like people to be entertained", says Stallone. He easily
achieved that.
Expect the same from the picture. It looks damn good with just some print
scratches occasionally.
The average bitrate is 6.5Mb/s, often peaking over 9Mb/s.
The surround sound is loud and proud once again. When the shit hits the fan,
your speakers are given a fine workout.
Extras :
There's not as much here as on the second disc, but we begin with a
60-second Teaser and a two-minute Theatrical Trailer, both
cropped to non-anamorphic 16:9 fullscreen.
A six-minute Making Of mixes 4:3-cropped clips with interview
soundbites and there's another six minutes in two parts under the banner,
Behind the scenes, but it's really more of the same, literally, with
the same clips used time and again. Quite entertaining though.
A 15-strong Photo Gallery is also included.
Surround sound is in English, Italian, Spanish and German, with subtitles in
English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish.
The main menu has both music from the film mixed in with clips and sounds
just as good as on the first disc. The film could use more chapters with
16 over the 97 minutes.
The Rambo Trilogy on DVD.
In a way, it's the second film but with a bigger budget, more violence
and a different location.
Fantastic fun but not much in the way of extras.
Note that this version has been cut slightly. Just a mere two seconds of
compulsory cuts were required to the sight of an illegal horsefall in
accordance with Cinematograph (Animals) Act 1937. I can live with that.
When it was first cut for video though, a whole three minutes and three
seconds had been chopped. I couldn't live with that!
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