To me, this movie is perfection.

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

He is back and and living by hand to mouth doing matches for money and living like a monk in Thailand. This film is 1hr 32mins long new BI gave it 7/10 . When John Rambo ex soldier refuses the request of his old platoon leader Colonel Trautman for a new mission. He carries on with his Buddhist life. However when his friend gets kidnapped by the soviets in Afghan border area. And the American government are unable take official action. Rambo decides to take action on his own with the help of some rebels. he goes on a rampage killing 115 mercinarys for hire. this the second most in Rambo's film . This film cost 63 million to make and made 189 million around the world. Enjoy and old favourite.

Last time we saw John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), he had freed American P.O.W.s from a Viet Cong prison camp and shot down a whole regiment of the Soviet army with hardly any battle scars. Here, he's doing the same thing, except now he's rescuing his former superior, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), and he's in Afghanistan. How did this happen? Well, after watching Rambo in a stick-fight in Thailand, Trautman and an agent played by Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker from Robocop) follow him to a Buddhist monastery with the hopes that he'll join Trautman on a mission to give Afghan rebels Stinger missiles to fight the Soviets. Rambo refuses, not wanting to give up a life of peace, and Trautman goes in without him and gets captured. Hearing this, Rambo just decides to go in and get him back without a shred of doubt.This is easily the most pointless entry in the Rambo series for a multitude of reasons. First off, the film plays up the idea that Rambo needs to "come full circle" and accept that he is a combat soldier at heart. Trautman tells him all he did was "chip away the rough edges." Whatever happened to "God didn't make Rambo. I made him?" Is Trautman a liar? Throughout the film, Rambo defends the Afghans from the Soviets and by the end...just goes back home and doesn't seem to have changed one bit. We don't get any indication that he has "come full circle," so that's just a bunch of BS.Also, I'm really getting sick of Trautman. For the past couple of movies, he's been telling everyone how good Rambo is at what he does. In the first film, he does so to warn Teasle and the state police about how dangerous he could be when they hunt him. In the second, he does it to tell Murdock how good he is for the mission, and to warn him not to mess with Rambo when Murdock reveals his true intentions. Here, it's just too much. Even the scene where he tries to get Rambo to come with him on the mission is frustrating. It sounds like he's just trying to come up with excuses to get Rambo fighting again. He might as well be one of those action-obsessed kids fat on popcorn who loves these kinds of films. Stallone also seems pretty bored except during the action scenes.Once again, Rambo shows almost no indication that he's a traumatized war veteran except in the stick-fight where he seems he might let his anger get the best of him. Shame it was just that one scene, but at least somebody working on the film remembered that aspect of Rambo's character. His being in Afghanistan however, is completely out of place for what his character is about. The essence of Rambo's character is tightly-knitted with the Vietnam War and the poor treatment of American soldiers who fought in that war. If Rambo's in Afghanistan, nothing can be done to bring that point across. Basically, this film just comes off as an excuse for Rambo to go off somewhere and shoot more Communists. The fact that Trautman has a line comparing the Soviet-Afghan War to Vietnam doesn't help matters.Some additional problems are that once again, the Communist villains are one-dimensional and they think that endlessly torturing their prisoners will make them more menacing. It doesn't work that way, guys. Sorry. Also, there's an annoying kid living with the Afghan rebels who's a soldier (I can hear the political outcries already), who always wants to fight with Rambo and does nothing to help, and yet, Rambo eventually gives him his good luck charm (see the previous movie to learn about that little subplot). He's more like one of those annoying kids from sci-fi B-movies who are only there to make things harder for the main protagonists. He almost gets himself and Rambo killed for that matter.The cinematography is still great and the action is still fun (even if you know that the film's going to do nothing to serve character and story in a movie like this, enjoying the action means you get something out of it), but those positives alone can't make a movie like this great. By now, the subtext, commentary, and seriousness of First Blood (first in this series) is non-existent and Rambo 3 is just sub-par action shoot 'em up with nothing to stick around for. Quite a fall from greatness, I must say.

Most people – critics and fans alike – are united in their opinion that RAMBO III is the weakest of the original trilogy, but having watched it again after a long while I'm not so sure. In fact, I think all films are equally amazing! RAMBO III is the epitome of the '80s US action film, detailing a larger-than-life battling against overwhelming foreign forces and coming out on top. It equals COMMANDO for pure mind-blowing entertainment, and as a guy's film it doesn't let up. The story begins in somewhat cheesy territory as we witness our hero engaging in a brutal stick fight – the kind of tournament battle popularised in the late '80s by Van Damme in BLOODSPORT. From then on in, the plot evolves pretty much as you'd expect, with the exception that Richard Crenna is the hostage this time around – allowing the seasoned actor to get his teeth into a more developed role than in the previous two films. Good call! From then on in, Rambo makes his way to Afghanistan, where he proceeds to absolutely kick the backsides of the assembled Russian forces there. He joins forces with Afghanistan partisan forces (NOT the Taliban, a common misconception) and stages a stealthy rescue attempt. When that fails, he just loads up and goes on a massive killing spree. It's all good fun, very violent in an '80s way, with a reliance on huge, impressive explosions, and bloody bullet hits as the bad guy soldiers get taken out (but not to pieces – you have to wait until RAMBO (2008) for THAT level of violence). There are also some novelty moments, such as the return of Rambo's bow and exploding arrows, his knife (way bigger than ever before) and a great bit where a bad guy explodes with grenades after getting hanged on the end of a rope – contrived, yes, cheesy, yes, brilliant? Oh YES!Stallone is a mountain of muscle in this, the toughest looking guy I've ever seen in a film – forget Schwarzenegger. The supporting cast do their jobs without ever setting the screen alight, although the main villain is a little weak after Steven Berkoff in the previous flick. Kurtwood Smith IS in the cast, but he's wasted in a little cameo appearance at the beginning instead of acting as a villain a la ROBOCOP. After the initial half an hour set up, this film really doesn't let up and I was surprised at how many elements are re-used in Stallone's fourth film – Rambo using the gun mounted on the jeep, the village attack, the mortars, etc. Anyway, it's all good fun and effortlessly rewatchable. Check it out!

Sexagenarian Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) leads a mission into Afghanistan to help rebels fighting the Russians. He's captured and, naturally, Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) must come to the rescue. The least of the Rambo movies by a wide margin. It doesn't even feel like a natural progression from the first two movies. John Rambo's character is especially 'off' in this one. He's more talkative and sociable than in the last two movies. He even makes jokes. The dynamic with Trautman is also off. In the other movies, Trautman was a father figure. Here he's more of a buddy. Despite my problems with how the parts are written, both actors do fine with what they're given.The pacing is poor and the script seems entirely too invested in getting us to care about the Afghan rebels and their fight against the evil Soviets. Aside from making the whole thing feel dated (even more so than the second Rambo movie in my opinion), it's like they forgot what people watch a Rambo movie for. If they had trimmed a lot of this stuff in the first half, the movie would have flowed better and that could have made for a more effective actioner. A lot of the dialogue is pretty corny, too. The best part of the movie is the cinematography from John Stanier, which is far better than you would expect for a movie such as this. Watchable for fans of the first two movies but nothing special.