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Title: Rambo in a trenchcoat
Review: Film is obviously a great seducer with the ability to create dramatic effect with all the great cinematic effects and music, not to mention the faces we've all come to love. This movie has plenty of all that. Some of the scenes are really gorgeous to look at. But the film ultimately rings hollow, offering no deeper insights into the violent nature of man as its' effects are continually smeared across the screen. Paul Newman's character, at one point, says, "These are the lives we choose" but rather than using this as a stepping stone into meditations on this potentially profound theme, it comes at the end, and in the next scene machines guns are being cocked. Trying to mimic reality a little more than a film treading similar ground, Rambo, here our protaganist dies. (Shucks, no part II.)
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