Rambo Reviews

This page contains reviews for the 2008 action film, Rambo, which was directed by Sylvester Stallone and stars Stallone, Julie Benz and Matthew Marsden.

In this fourth installment of the Rambo film series, John Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone) travels to Burma to rescue some missionaries from a P.O.W. camp.

Rambo received mixed reviews, mostly negative, from critics. The film scored a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, an overall rating of 46 on Metacritic.

The box office gross for the U.S. totaled $42,754,105 and $61,131,052 abroad for a total worldwide of $103,885,157. The production budget for the film was reported to be $50 million.

1. "Rambo teaches that fighting sucks, good intentions can be futile, and coalitions of the willing are a charade: A man's got to do what a man's got to do. Sometimes that means tying on the old bandanna to hack one's way out of the Hollywood jungle so disorienting to aging action stars." - Entertainment Weekly
2. "Mr. Stallone is smart enough — or maybe dumb enough, though I tend to think not — to present the mythic dimensions of the character without apology or irony. His face looks like a misshapen chunk of granite, and his acting is only slightly more expressive, but the man gets the job done. Welcome back." - The New York Times
3. "It's hard to imagine who the target audience is for Rambo, Sylvester Stallone's new vanity project." - USA Today
4. "[Stallone's] not trying to match the power of the Best Picture-winning Rocky here, he's trying to match the entertainment level of some solidly enjoyable shoot 'em up action flicks. And on those grounds, Rambo is a complete success." - Cinematical