The true plot, according to Sly, is much stranger, borderline sci-fi territory for the lunkish Vietnam vet. Set back in the Pacific Northwest where the whole saga began, it involves a secret US military installation where experiments are being carried out on elite soldiers, with a view to enhancing their primal savagery. This, needless to say, Ends Badly, and one John Rambo is brought in with a squad to shut the place down.
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Now, when you hear about genetically enhanced super-soldiers, you may immediately think of Universal Soldier, or perhaps Paul WS Anderson's Kurt Russel sci-fi epic Soldier. But you would be wrong to think that, and Sly is way ahead of you. In another message on Harry's answerphone, he explains further:
"It's not a super-soldier, it's a feral beast; a thing. It’s this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage, from before men became human – it’s inhuman! It's man's 'conscious' fighting his dark, uncontrollable unconscious. It has absolute cunning and intelligence and a will to survive that is only matched by Rambo’s."
A bit like Predator then, although Sly prefers Forbidden Planet ("where the doctor couldn't control his mind and his subconscious took over and became a savage killing machine") as an analogy.
So where the fourth instalment was rooted in a version of reality (Burma, mercenaries, missionaries), Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, as we're now to call it, will be running off in a far more fantastical direction. The poster above was knocked up for the Toronto Film Festival. Shooting starts in the spring.
Let's think how to ruin at least two, ok , three of the best action films. First Blood. It is Fuckin' ace, Rambo II, not as good but the action was pretty cool (C'mon how many of ya still wonder how he got an RPG through that tiny crack in a windscreen in a Huey) IV was pretty cool, not just for the violence, although it helped. But he went home. So why in fuckin' Hades he feels the need to go for a straight to dvd job is beyond me. Or The Expendables will be a pile of cock!! That's why he's do... Read More
RE: It'll be more like the original!!! Dont you see!!!
Just watched Rambo IV earlier. I fucking love it.
I'd love to see another Rambo film, but not some daft sci-fi-crossover. It just wouldn't be Rambo.... ... Read More
It'll be more like the original!!!! Don't you see!!!
I agree whole-heartedly with Larusso. I think the ending to rambo 4 was the best place to end the series, no doubt. However I totally understand what Stallones getting at with this one. They won't be super-soldiers, theres no genetic enhancement, they'll be like he used to be in the first movie. They'll be brainwashed almost into being people who only understand how to be soldiers. He'll be fighting the younger versions of himself! And i suppose that's the relevance of it, you know the way that ... Read More
Rambo 4 ended like how First blood stared with John Rambo back on the road but going home, coming full circle. That was a good end to the series, even if the film was a bit short. Rambo 5 sounds like a terrible idea. Its Universal Soldier meets Corey haim film Watchers. But if its made ill still go to see it, ITS Rambo!!! ... Read More
