Boyce went to the Globe cinema to see the latest Sylvester Stallone movie “John Rambo” last night, I walked out in the middle of it.

What an appalling piece of violent crap it was!

The movie has a proliferation of scenes where people are being massacred, villages of men, women, children and babies are being machined gunned chopped and stabbed. Quite frankly I found it hard to look at the screen at times.

The plot of the movie is based in Burma where these things were actually happening. In fact the movie opens with real scenes of bloated and rotting corpses including dead Burmese monks. The fact that the movie was filmed on location while the massacres were happening seems to make a theatrical mockery of the actual events.

Now I should let you know I am no prude when it comes to movie violence, in fact almost all my favorite flicks “Kill Bill” “Unforgiven” “Terminator” “Face off” “Pulp fiction” “The Matrix” are all violence based.But there is a big difference between a movie with a well written story line and good character development which supports and justifies the acts of violence you see.

Call me a hypocrite but seeing “Neo” flipping and firing at “sentinels” in “The Matrix” is different to watching soldiers kicking down doors and machine gunning fleeing mothers with babes in arms like you see in “John Rambo.

The scenes in Rambo are a brutal reminder of the massacres which are currently happening in neighboring Guyana, it is not a fantastical concept happening in some far off place. I saw some of the photos of victims of those attacks on the “Bajan Reporter” blog and it was not beautiful.

I am a movie violence fanatic but you have to draw the line some where, “John Rambo” is where I drew that line. I left before it finished, you should leave before it starts…

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