Wow, this 3 minute of footage from the new
John Rambo film is shocking. It's the bloodiest thing I've seen in ages. According to the guys over at
AICN, this is some unfinished footage that has been put together by
Stallone to show distributors at Cannes early next week... but like he did with his
Rocky Balboa release, he's catering to readers of Harry Knowles site by putting it on their first.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FOOTAGE. I HAD TO DOWNLOAD IT TO MY HARD DRIVE FIRST BEFORE IT WOULD PLAY, BUT IT IS WELL WORTH IT. You know, when
Quentin Tarantino and
Robert Rodriguez made
Grindhouse this summer, I don't think they nailed that type of cinema quite as well as Stallone. The second half of this trailer is just pure Grindhouse cinema. This is what the trailer (and probably the film, although I haven't seen it) for
The Condemned should have looked like. I love the tone of this movie. This is exactly what it needed to be. Balls to the wall, and bloody as hell. I would prefer they don't have too much of the documentary type drama that the trailer begins with because we have enough of that on our TV screens at the moment. We go to the cinema to escape shit like that. Thumbs up or thumbs down on this footage?