Watching the 'extras-snippets' section (on the DVD, after the movie), I found myself enthralled in learning about weapons, like the Barrett .50-caliber long-range Army-sniper special forces, bad to the bone rifle. 'Engaging' targets at up to 2,000 meters 'with incredible, smack-in-the-middle precision...while taking the 'entire' back of the skull with it...'THIS IS NOT A TOY'. (hehe)...
Lightweight, exotic-alloy, frame-mounted, bolt-action sniper rifles with multi-coated ex-low dispersion optics, sending rounds rifling at
an astounding 4000 feet per second. Yes...this shoulder-fired, recoil operated semi-automatic .50 caliber consistently delivers fire-power against enemy targets that are usually considered outside a trained rifleman's limitations of range, size, location, mobility and visibility. However, in the hands of a trained sniper, it can surgically take out strategic targets while minimizing collateraldamage. It is capable of slicing through personnel targets (bad guy's heads, brain matter, eyeballs, etc) as far away as 1500 meters while causing extensive & explosive gory damage and pierce material targets built of welded cold-rolled, steel, like the bad guy's military vehicles out to 2000 meters (causing massive damage and hopefully carrying a few of the bad guys!)...It's what dads everywhere 'really want' for Father's Day!...I know I do and I'd never even heard of one before today!
Good grief!, Man! Gee-Beav, that's just the 'tip of the iceberg' here! I mean 'heck' we haven't even started on Burmese 'factoids'...or any of the'inside the movie production biz's insider's-info that's included in thesnippets-extras section of the DVD!)... Oh, the movie!?!...a good, solid (yet predictable) storyline and of course it's incredibly gory, gritty, sweat & rain-soaked Rambo-Enigmatic mystic-realism with a powerful, on-the-money sound-bed hitting every note(in precision-perfect tempo with every head-popping, blood-splattered, gut-ripping explosion...and you can't overlook Rambo's own handmade & very lethal 'survival' knife action... In reality, It was a little disappointing when I realized the movie was drawing to a close, at what seemed like 'a bit too soon because there were still some nasty 'bad guys' left running away that coulda' used a lil' more .50 caliber action up their mean-asses...and you just kinda' knew there was gonna' be some(semi-forced) self-reckoning scene on the horizon...probably back in 'the hometown'...with a sunset in the same horizon...But you'll hafta' watch it yourself to see, cause I'm not spoiling it. At any rate, it gives anyone a great glimpse (and more) into the creative-type work ethic of Sly and crew...I'd think this DVD should be 'must watch material' for any film school student, plus the storyline is pretty good (dealing with the real-world...yet not quite news-covered) insanity going on south of the border...Burmese-style.... Rambo is definitely worth the time and actually left me wanting it to last a little longer...Yeah, this one's pretty slick...er, Sly...Make sure to check it out...Even if you just want to know a little more about the Burmese situation, or the movie biz and skip the movie altogether...It's worth the time, without question...
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