John Rambo

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Jungle

Has it really been 20 years? Last time we saw John Rambo, in 1988, he was involved in some cold war endgame stuff in Afghanistan, and his action-movie franchise, begun in 1982 with “First Blood,” seemed to be sputtering toward self-parody. Since then Rambo has faded into semi-obscurity, though his name is sometimes still used, perhaps a bit unfairly, as a synonym for revanchist, go-it-alone militarism.
When I saw the posters announcing his imminent return, I wondered whom he would be fighting this time. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4630 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 gennaio 2008