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Long awaited Directors Cut of the latest installment in Rambo series was something like 9 minutes longer (especially characters development added, some alternate takes, some order of the scenes changed) , and some cuts were made at the same time. Unfortunately there was no additional action & violence added, and furthermore, some of it has been removed. So, there is no way to watch Extended & Uncut version of the movie at the same time on any of official release and the purpose of this edit is to fix it.
Edit is based on Extended Cut ripped from BD disc and converted to PAL DVD, scenes from theatrical cut have been taken from R2 PAL DVD. Running time of the edit is a bit messed up cause’ it contains real PAL (4% speed up) bits and most of it is converted to PAL but runs exactly as long as BD version.
Final running time is 102 minutes (it’s 90 minutes until end credits starts).
And what has been changed:
most of missing footage from Theatrical Cut has been restored, but there are some exceptions:
- if there is alternative scene in EC, usually <span style=“text-decoration: underline;”>EC version stays in</span> (in some cases scenes from TC and EC were combined), if EC removes violence, TC version stays.
- after the explosion of the grenade at the beginning and the orders of the soldiers, a shot of the captives running around aimlessly is still missing
- the scene in which Lewis is carried on the stretcher by the others is still missing (cause I dont think they were able to build this stretcher that fast).
- some of annoying fades between shots were deleted (especially in the scene where Rambo is approaching boat with dead pirates on it.
This is on DVD-5 with polish subtitles, no menu.
