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With how old Stallone is, you'd think he'd be slowing down by now. But this movie is awesome. It starts out a little slow, with Rambo just living a simple life, as all the Rambo movies do. But then someone asks for help, he helps, things get complicated, and he starts killing. But with this one, it's more of a building action than the other ones. He slowly works up to killing more people, and for about the first 120 minutes of the movie, only kills a few dozen, so it doesn't become stale and repetitive. Then near the end of the movie is a scene in a Burmese army base camp, which is the site of debauchery that would give Blood Diamond a run for its money, and throughout the story you see more and more gruesome and barbaric practices by the Burmese army that they basically get away with, then it builds to a climax that's so exciting and long in coming that I found myself smiling broadly and giggling like a schoolgirl.

Sylvester is as inarticulate as ever, but he knows this, and is a man of few words in this movie. The storyline flowed and more or less made sense, without any real glaring errors or oversights. Also, the special effects are amazing! Heads implode, people step on mines and explode, limbs are realistically blown off, and gaping see-through holes are shot through people. And unlike the 80s where you could often tell what was a fake prosthetic, in this movie the special effects combine seamlessly with the movie.

It's certainly not a movie to take your Mother to (unless she likes this sort of stuff), but this is a must-see for all action movie lovers. Sensible script, awesome special effects, few words from Sylvester Stallone, decent acting, and a kick-@$$ climax make this a movie well worth your money to see it in theaters or on DVD.

This is a movie that definitely has a point of view that it's trying to convey: that America's public interests are being superseded by the interests of the companies of the defense industry. The film clarifies that message by saying basically that it's not that it's alleging that Halliburton said "we want a war, go find one", but a more moderate message, that America's military-industrial complex makes us more eager to go to war than if we didn't have it. However, unlike Michael Moore movies (never seen Fahrenheit 9/11, but I did have to see Roger and Me), which, The Onion rightly jokes, only contain 30 seconds of unbiased, objective journalism, Why We Fight is to a large degree balanced. It conveys the points of view of various people, such as Ahn Duong, a bomb designer from former South Vietnam who escaped just before Saigon fell (who I coincidently saw again just hours after watching this movie in a Future Weapons episode), and has a huge drive to see America succeed in war, to Gore Vidal, author of "Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia", who believes strongly in the corruption of American interests by corporations, and everyone in between. All in all there's a good mix of people that do and don't support the message the film is trying to convey, though the focus of the film seems to shift as it goes on from those against the message in the beginning to those who believe in the message closer to the end, though during all parts of the movie there is representation of both sides. Therefore, this makes a movie that's good for both those who believe corporations make America more willing to go to war, and those that believe America's decision to go to war with any country is mainly the product of national interest and, to a degree, public support. Whatever your beliefs, this movie is informative, presents the views of multiple people so there's at least someone you can relate to and you don't have to feel like your beliefs are being attacked by the movie for 100 minutes, and provides the information and the basis to open discussion about the Iraq War, a war nearly everyone believes has at least something fishy about no matter what their beliefs about its cause or effect.