8:00AM Mark | As you try to wash off the last of the oil you liberally applied to your torso for your unselfconsciously shirtless
Rambo outing, have a look at the weekend’s box office numbers:
1.
Meet The Spartans – $US18.725 million
2.
Rambo – $US18.150 million
America, it seems, has let Sylvester Stallone down. He gives and he gives, even a good twenty years past his cinematic prime, by offering up
an exhausting 236 kills in a taut, blink-and-you-missed-the-slaughter- of-half-the-Burmese-army 93 minutes and
still he’s subjected to the indignity of finishing behind a third-rate spoof flick.
Still,
Rambo performed well enough that executive producer Harvey Weinstein is
already making noise about adding another chapter to the franchise, perhaps one in which the monosyllabic, mom-jeans-wearing killing machine plies his brutal trade back in the States, tripling his staggering Myanmar body count in an utterly punishing 68 minutes in an attempt to reclaim his rightful place atop the domestic box office.
