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First Blood Part II
It´s not often an actor creates a popular, identifiable hero in more than one movie.Harrison Ford did it with Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and CIA agent Jack Ryan.Sylvester Stallone did it with Rocky Balboa and John Rambo.Stallone tapped into important audience nerves with both of his characters.Rocky, of course, became everybody´s favorite underdog.But Rambo went deeper;the portrayal went to the roots of America´s resentment over losing the Vietnam war.Americans like to win, and Rambo gave them the chance to get even, at least in their imagination.If you remember, in “First Blood” Rambo had just returned from Vietnam as a highly decorated Green Beret--Medal of Honor and all that.Now he was looking for some peace and quiet, but the country was not ready for him.He was thrown in jail by a redneck sheriff, escaped, and, perfect killing machine that he is, wreaked havoc on the countryside until the authorities finally brought him back.In “Rambo: First Blood II,” we find him working on a prison rock pile when his old commanding officer, Col.Trautman(Richard Crenna), shows up to offer him a deal.He can regain his freedom if he will go back to Vietnam and locate some prisoners of war who might still be imprisoned there.Rambo agrees, but when he finds the POWs, naturally he wants to rescue them.No dice, says the government.Seems it was all a public relations gimmick.In fact, the government really doesn´t want to know if there are POWs still in Nam.They just want a war hero to confirm to the American public that all is well.So they leave poor Rambo stranded in enemy territory.Needle to say, Rambo not only fights his way out, but he practically destroys the whole North Vietnamese army in the proce.Rise of the Machines
Terminator 3 is the summer movie of 2003 that hard-core action fans have been awaiting.It's not ponderous and incomplete like The Matrix Reloaded.It's not steeped in characterization and modern-day mythology like Hulk.And it's not vapid and flashy like Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Bad Boys 2.Instead, it's a relatively straightforward science fiction adventure filmTerminator 3 is not an intellectual challenge, but neither is it vacuous.The film has plenty of action sequences, some of which are spectacular.Director Jonathan Mostow has wisely not relied too much on computer graphics for these.A fair amount of stunt work was required, and the computer components are incorporated seamlely.Additionally, Mostow does not play the game of cutting every second or so, and the music never upstages the visuals.Terminator 3 gets the most
bang for its buck by letting the camera linger on the spectacle, and allowing tension, not flashine, to be its hallmark.Terminator 3 has a number of impreive action sequences, including one that features two crashing helicopters and another in which the T-101 and T-X go at it, one-on-one.But none is more impreive than the crane chase, where the world's largest crane goes crashing through everything in its path in an out-of-control attempt to(literally)run down John and Kate.(When Warner Brothers became skittish about budgetary iues, Schwarzenegger chipped in $1.6 million to allow the sequence to be finished.)It's hard to say which is the summer's best chase: this one or the equally spectacular one in The Matrix Reloaded.The Day After Tomorrow
It is such a relief to hear the music swell up at the end of a Roland Emmerich movie, its restorative power giving us new hope.Billions of people may have died, but at least the major characters have survived.Los Angeles was wiped out by flying saucers in Emmerich's “Independence Day,” New York was aaulted in his “Godzilla,” and now, in “The Day After Tomorrow,” Emmerich outdoes himself: Los Angeles is leveled by multiple tornados, New York is buried under ice and snow, the United Kingdom is flash-frozen, and lots of the Northern Hemisphere is wiped out for good measure.Thank god that Jack, Sam, Laura, Jason and Dr.Lucy Hall survive, along with Dr.Hall's little cancer patient.Of the science in this movie I have no opinion.I am sure global warming is real, and I regret that the Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Treaty, but I doubt that the cataclysm, if it comes, will come like this.It makes for a fun movie, though.Especially the parts where Americans become illegal immigrants in Mexico, and the vice president addrees the world via the Weather Channel.“The Day After Tomorrow”
is ridiculous, yes, but sublimely ridiculous--and the special effects are stupendous.
