Movie Review - RAMBO 4

The last time we saw Rambo, he was kicking butt in Afghanistan. Since that time he has been laying low in northern Thailand, minding his business as a longboat driver on the Salween River and wrangling boa constrictors for snake fights. But when a group of human rights missionaries gets caught in the crossfire of the still-raging Burmese-Karen civil war, Rambo ultimately rises to the challenge. Accompanied by a group of mercenaries, he soon finds himself ripping out a guy's throat with his bare hands, just like the good old days. Also, just like the good old days, Rambo remains the strong, silent type, which ensures that speeches like, "When you're pushed, killin' is as easy as breathin'," are kept to a grateful minimum. The other trite characters in the Stallone- and Art Monterastelli-penned script aren't so lucky, which makes it easier not to become emotionally invested when a good portion of them are beheaded or vivisected or blown to bits by the intense, bloody violence.

It's ironically the only thing that's really alive in this otherwise dull film. From an audience point of view, you wish Stallone had instead headed in the other direction, pulling out all stops and going out a blaze of glory, taking a page out of the John McClane playbook for last year's guilty-pleasure "Die Hard" revival. Instead Stallone is intent on showing the introspective, vulnerable man behind the legend, stripping him of most of that showy '80s gear (but allowing him to keep his shirt on) and ending on a sun-drenched, silly coda during which a weary Rambo discovers that you can go home again.
She arrived in a black SUV driven by pal Sam Lutfi at 1:25, five minutes before her custody hearing was set to resume. But when she wouldn’t budge, Brit’s attorneys Anne Kiley and Tara Scott were summoned out of the court’s cafeteria down to the underground parking garage where the pop singer was safely ensconced, in order to coax her out of the car and upstairs.

What Really Happened to Britney Spears The Day Of The Custody Hearing

There, the lawyers tried in vain to reason with the 26-year-old mom of two, calling her chances of regaining visitation with sons Sean and Jayden “slim and bleak” unless she testified. Sam encouraged her as well, telling the pop wreck to “just get it over with.” When Brit couldn’t make up her mind, Adnan told her — “we could just drive around for a few minutes and figure it out.”

For the rest of the story, read after the jump! With the time approaching 1:45, our source says Kiley and Scott gave up on Britney and went back to the hearing. Spears then had Sam drive around the block and stop back at the court, where she got out of the car only to be scared right back in by the press gathered outside. As they reported the other day, Anne Kiley was spotted on a frustrating phone call during a brief recess at around 2:15. A source tells us she was talking to Britney, who was at that point enjoying a chicken caesar at the Gaucho Grill. In the courthouse, the lawyer shook her head and shrugged her shoulders — she was trying one last time to get Brit to come back, our spy says. Brit’s reply? She was “just over it” and “wasn’t going to come back, period.”

And in case you were curious, the blond in the car the other day with Brit was longtime Sam pal Chad Hardcastle. The religious South Floridian, who sources tell us Sam is using as bait to lure Brit away from new beau Adnan, is the one who convinced Brit to stop by the Little Brown Church for some godly guidance. On top of the squeaky clean image (Adnan calls him “melba toast”) our source claims that Chad is perfect for Brit, because he’s got even more money than her. I don’t know what to say about Britney…she is getting deeper and deeper in trouble.