"Rambo" ** (out of four): For a brief moment in this alarmingly grisly fourth "Rambo" movie, it seems as though Sylvester Stallone might be (literally and figuratively) trying to say something. Turns out, not.

Sylvester Stallone is feeling nostalgic these days. Last year, he revisited "Rocky", the series that made him a star, giving his beloved pugilist a surprisingly fitting bookend with "Rocky Balboa". Now, he tackles the next character with which he is most identified: that bastion of Reagan-era righteousness, Rambo. (Like "Balboa", this film was originally titled "John Rambo" but was inexplicably pared down to last name only). But is there a place for this shoot-first-ask-questions-never character in a post-9/11, soon-to-be-post-George-W world?

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