Rambo

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Rambo

Not Dove Family-Approved

Synopsis:

In Thailand, a group of Christian aid workers recruit John Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (aka Myanmar). When the missionaries fail to return, Rambo is persuaded to take a group of mercenaries back into the war-torn border region to find them. What follows is a descent into hell on earth.

Dove Worldview:

I seldom have had such mixed feelings while watching a film. On the one hand, this story of Christian missionaries going into war-plagued Burma, where genocide is a harsh reality, and their attempt to bring comfort and medical help, is a noble part of the plot. Rambo is reluctant to rent out his river boat to the missionaries until a young woman named Sarah says, "Trying to save a life isn't a waste of your life." Rambo agrees to go along and it's a good thing, for they soon run into river pirates who desire to rape Sarah, and the missionaries need Rambo's expertise in guerrilla warfare. Unfortunately for them, this is only the beginning of their problems. While the group does reach their destination, they are soon captured and Rambo is determined to go after them. Stallone has said in an interview he wanted to make the problems of Burma seem realistic in this film. In that he is very successful.

And herein lies the problem as this movie is far from a family-friendly picture. The blood is shed big time in this film, with graphic scenes of decapitations, explosions causing scores of death, a hanging scene, people set on fire, and the abuse of women including the beginning of a rape scene. It is not one for the squeamish. Due to the strong language and violence, and a few brief scenes of nudity, we are unable to award our Dove "Family-Approved" Seal to this picture.

Content Chart & Description:

Sex Language Violence Drugs & Alcohol Nudity Other
Sex Drugs Nudity Other
Rating Descriptions

Sex: Women are about to be raped but it is not shown.
Language: GD-3; J-2; F-43; S-13; B-1; SOB-2; G/OMG-4; A-1; Slang for male genitalia-1; Slang for female genitalia-1
Violence: Many soldiers and civilians are killed; a few decapitations; flying severed limbs; head seen on a stick; women abused and slapped; people kicked and slapped; stabbings; detonations in marsh which kills several people; several men are seen hanging; flying blood is seen spurting in several scenes; man's neck is broken and he is wounded by a character and bleeds at the throat; children are seen shot and stabbed; corpses are seen and a pig eats a man's corpse; arrows are seen shot through soldiers' heads; what appears to be part of a man's brain is shot out.

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