First Blood Review

Our assignment this week was to evaluate a movie of our choosing. Since my girlfriend was required by her English 101 teacher to watch a movie as well (but she was assigned one) I decided to just watch hers and judge it (come on people thats basically what I'm doing, evaluating is just a fancy word for it, everything has to be politically correct nowadays).

So the movie opens (being filmed in an earlier decade I'm not going to kill direction or screen shots, but they do leave a bit to be desired) anyway, the movie opens on "Rambo" walking down a road wearing a Vietnam army jacket. He's got longer hair, and his muscles are still bulging. He has a look of contempt on his face and although he's obviously been on the road for awhile, he looks as though he just stepped out of a nice warm shower.

Although "Rambo" doesn't say much in the movie, the few lines he does say should not have been given to him. In my humble and modest opinion he is not a Emmy award worthy actor (and I'm not sure if I'm back by the academy or not never having become a big "Rambo" fan). "Rambo" was doomed from the word go but for some reason, some hyper-masculine guy somewhere thought it a good idea and it obviously gained a reputation.

Never having seen a "Rambo" movie before, I was, admittedly excited. After the first couple of scenes however, not so much. The movie droned on and on and it seemed like it would never end. It did however end in the not so surprising blowing up of the entire town (which in the beginning was not so welcoming and rightly so). Overall, the movie was not a movie I would recommend to anyone excepting a meat head or two at the gym back home where I work out.

C- (I've always wanted to do that!)