John Rambo (film)
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| German title | John Rambo | ||
| Original title | Rambo | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2008 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating |
FSK 18, shortened DVD version: 16 SPIO / JK : no serious danger to young people |
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| Director | Sylvester Stallone | ||
| script | Sylvester Stallone, Art Monterastelli |
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| production |
Kevin King , Avi Lerner , John Thompson |
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| music | Brian Tyler | ||
| camera | Glen MacPherson | ||
| cut | Sean Albertson | ||
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John Rambo (original title: Rambo ) or Rambo IV is an action film from 2008 . The US-German co-production is the fourth part of the Rambo film series. The leading role is played by Sylvester Stallone , who also wrote and directed the script. Rambo followed in 2019 : Last Blood .
The film opened in American cinemas on January 25, 2008 and in German cinemas on February 14, 2008.
action
The Vietnam veteran John Rambo has been living secluded in Thailand for many years and works as a snake catcher and boat captain. One day a group of American missionaries shows up, led by Dr. Michael Burnett and Sarah Miller. You plan to provide medical assistance as part of humanitarian aid in a remote refugee village in Burma, which is enslaved by the military junta . After an initial reluctance, Rambo lets himself be persuaded to take her upriver to the crisis region in his boat.
On the way, they are stopped by Burmese river pirates . They see their sovereignty over the river and demand Sarah as toll , whereupon Rambo is forced to shoot all the pirates. Despite the obvious dangers, the missionaries do not want to abandon their project. When they arrive at the drop-off point, they set out on foot to reach the village. The farewell between Burnett and Rambo is cautious. The doctor despises Rambo because, in his opinion, there is no justification for killing the pirates. He announced that they would go back overland so that Rambo would not have to wait for them.
After Rambo returned, a short time later a pastor named Arthur Marsh turned up at his house, who reported that all contact with the missionaries had been broken for a few days. At Marsh's request, Rambo ships the mercenary Lewis, who is tasked with the search, and his troops upriver to the place where he had also let the missionaries off board. The mercenaries go without Rambo on and be of Myint and the young Tha, two resistance fighters of the Karen , led to the village to which the group wanted to go to Burnett. You find the village empty and burned down. Most of the villagers have apparently been brutally murdered by Burmese soldiers and the aid activists have been captured.
When a small group of Burmese soldiers unexpectedly returns to the destroyed village to pass the time with cruel games on prisoners, the mercenaries hide and do not intervene. Rambo appears and kills the soldiers from a hiding place with the help of a bow and arrow. After initial differences of opinion about the further course of the rescue operation, Rambo insists that they all set out together to free the abducted missionaries from the soldiers' camp.
With the help of Myint, they finally succeed in freeing the abducted persons and other prisoners unnoticed in a night operation. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Rambo does not manage to get to the agreed meeting point with Sarah Miller on time. The others have already left the camp as planned. Only the sniper "School Boy" had decided to wait for Rambo and Sarah and saved them by killing two patrolling guards.
The next morning the soldiers discover the rescue operation and go into pursuit. Rambo, who broke up with Sarah and "School Boy" in order to lay the wrong track, is able to blow up some of the soldiers with a booby trap. Sarah and “School Boy” see from a distance how the other soldiers are confronting the mercenaries and missionaries on the river bank, but cannot intervene due to the overwhelming force.
The soldiers beat the prisoners and are about to execute them when Rambo shows up. He fired at the soldiers with the help of a machine gun mounted on a jeep , which he quickly took control of. The mercenaries break free and take part in the fight. Myint also appears with other rebels, and together they destroy a gunboat belonging to the Burmese army. When the Burmese commander, Major Tint, sees his people becoming more and more decimated, he flees, but runs straight into Rambo's combat knife, who was waiting for him behind a tree. Finally Rambo thoughtfully watches the battlefield and the wandering and injured people for a while. Including Burnett and Sarah, who embrace each other. After a friendly gesture from Burnett and an extended eye contact with Sarah, Rambo turns away.
Finally, Rambo returns to his father's farm in Bowie, Arizona .
synchronization
The German-language dubbing was done by the Berlin dubbing company: RC Production - Rasema Cibic based on a dialogue book and directed by Björn Schalla .
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| John J. Rambo | Sylvester Stallone | Thomas Danneberg |
| Sarah Miller | Julie Benz | Uschi Hugo |
| "School Boy" | Matthew Marsden | Björn Schalla |
| Lewis | Graham McTavish | Erich Rauker |
| Diaz | Reynaldo Gallegos | Dietmar miracle |
| Reese | Jake La Botz | Karlo Hackenberger |
| En-Joo | Tim Kang | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Michael Burnett | Paul Schulze | Olaf Reichmann |
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. Of 143 reviews evaluated on the Rotten Tomatoes meta site , the film received 37% positive ratings. The consensus is: "Sylvester Stallone knows how to direct action scenes, but the inconsistent pace and excessive violence of the film (even for the franchise) are more disgusting than entertaining." In the Internet Movie Database , he scored 7.1 out of 10 achieve.
Michael Rechtshaffen described the film in The Hollywood Reporter on January 25, 2008 as a "big snorer". Stallone removed the elements of a comic that made the three previous films the pop icon of the Reagan era.
The lexicon of international film judges: “The return of the 'fighting machine' John Rambo in a gagging, violent mainstream action film in which the atrocities are always shown as a reaction to the inhuman brutality of the opponents. At best, viewed pragmatically, the film can stimulate thought about the state of affairs in a world that longs for such heroes. "
Mike Thomas wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of January 25, 2008 that the film had good camera work and was well edited, but it remained "violent pornography".
backgrounds
The film was shot in Chiang Mai ( Thailand ), Mexico and the United States . Its production amounted to an estimated 50 million US dollars .
The film opened in cinemas in some countries on January 23, 2008 and in the United States on January 25, 2008 - where it grossed around 18.2 million US dollars on the opening weekend. By April 13, 2008, around 113 million US dollars had been made worldwide. The German theatrical release took place on February 14, 2008.
According to an article in the Los Angeles Times , the film showed the deaths of 236 people, approximately 2.59 per minute of film or approximately 3.04 per minute since the first death shown. This is a record for all four Rambo films.
Cut versions
In Germany, the film had to be shortened by one minute for the age rating from 18 years ( no youth approval ) for the cinema show, since all members of the SPIO have committed themselves to only show FSK-tested films in the cinema. The DVD and Blu-ray release in Germany took place on June 27, 2008. There was an unabridged, SPIO / JK-approved version ( no serious harm to young people , on DVD erroneously unobjectionable under criminal law ), a version shortened by around 2 minutes with FSK Approval for ages 18 and over and a version shortened by a total of 7 minutes, approved for ages 16 and over, on which the sound was censored. The uncut version was indexed on List A on September 30, 2008 .
Sylvester Stallone presented a director's cut version by John Rambo at the 66th Venice International Film Festival , which was shown on September 12, 2009. This revised version is Stallone's requested version, which should have been shown in 2008 instead of the original version. This Director's Cut, known as the Extended Cut , was released on Blu-ray Disc in 2010 . It runs around 7 minutes longer than the theatrical version, but not only contains the scenes not shown in the original version, but has also been largely re-cut. An official publication of the extended cut in the German-speaking area has not yet occurred, only a bootleg DVD is in circulation. In this case, the German soundtrack of the theatrical version was superimposed on the image of the extended cut, as this has not yet been dubbed in German. Therefore, the new scenes are in English. In September 2019, the film was also released on UHD Blu-Ray in the USA ; this release contains both versions of the film in 4K resolution.
Trivia
- The British Tallboy bomb, which is shown briefly at the beginning and later helps people to escape, was never actually used in East Asia, only in Europe.
- The score, including the theme song, was composed by Brian Tyler at Stallone's request . Tyler, inspired by Stallone, included the soundtrack created by Jerry Goldsmith in the first part of the film series in the composition. This is particularly noticeable at the beginning (Rambo Theme) and at the end of the film (Rambo End Title) . However, Tyler has created a completely new soundtrack that only contains parts - albeit clearly recognizable - of the original music. This was necessary, not least to keep up with the times and a “modern” Rambo.
Web links
- Official German website for the film
- John Rambo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Rambo at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- John Rambo at Metacritic (English)
- John Rambo in the online film database
- John Rambo in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions No youth approval - SPIO / JK , FSK 16 - SPIO / JK , theatrical version - Extended Cut by John Rambo at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for John Rambo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2008 (PDF; test number: 112 848-a K).
- ^ Certificate of Release for John Rambo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, April 2008 (PDF; heavily abridged version).
- ↑ John Rambo. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on December 6, 2017 .
- ↑ John Rambo at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ John Rambo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Michael Rechtsshaffen: Rambo. In: The Hollywood Reporter. January 25, 2008, archived from the original on December 6, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2009 .
- ↑ John Rambo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Mike Thomas: Brutality, your name is 'Rambo'. In: Chicago Sun-Times. January 25, 2008, accessed January 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Filming locations for John Rambo (2008). In: IMDb. Retrieved January 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Michael: Rambo 4 Gets a Budget! MoviesOnline, accessed January 29, 2009 .
- ^ Start dates for John Rambo (2008). In: IMDb. Retrieved January 29, 2009 .
- ↑ RAMBO. Box Office Mojo, accessed January 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Alex Billington: Check This Out: Rambo Kill Chart. FirstShowing.net, January 23, 2008, accessed January 29, 2009 .
- ↑ John Rambo. Schnittberichte.com, accessed on January 29, 2009 (no youth release).
- ↑ John Rambo - Director's Cut premieres. schnittberichte.com, September 4, 2009, accessed on November 13, 2009 .
- ↑ John Rambo - Director's Cut in summer. schnittberichte.com, May 7, 2010, accessed May 27, 2010 .
- ↑ Mike Lowrey: Comparison of the theatrical version and the extended cut. schnittberichte.com, August 4, 2010, accessed August 28, 2010 .
- ↑ Gerald Wurm: John Rambo: UHD premiere in the USA with extended cut & theatrical version (Schnittberichte.com). Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Brian Tyler Interview. cinezik.org, accessed January 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Rambo. filmmusicsite.com, Oscar Flores, September 21, 2008, accessed January 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Rambo by Brian Tyler. tracksounds.com, Christopher Coleman, accessed January 24, 2010 .