The Last Temptation of the First Rambo

"Rambo isn’t just a film about someone who has almost lost the power of speech, it is fundamentally a silent film. Silent about all the big questions whose formulations it delays to the utmost. Silent about buried causes and final outcomes, silent in the face of violence and nature. We should be grateful to Stallone for this film’s reinvention of an acting style where the face is as wide-eyed and expressive as a semaphor. This makes him like the actors in the early westerns, dumbstruck, startled and twitching at the slightest thing in the midst of hostile nature."