It came to me in a dream last night. It was a Rambo prequel reboot starring Norman Reedus as Rambo. The film revolved around near future events where a controversial and protracted war was about to begin.
The movie was unfolding as I slept. There were flashbacks to a younger protagonist when he first got into the military, and it was an elegant way of tying things together so you could see how the start of the war evolved and what conflicts were following based on global events. The young Rambo (played by some person I didn't recognize) starts off in a South American conflict but later you see Reedus' Rambo in Eastern Asia after he's become a green beret.
This movie's version of John Rambo has a more calculated character, more like Solid Snake, using far more realistic stealth tactics which creates suspense for the film. Where stealth fails, things tend to go horribly wrong. The plot ends on a bad note when many of his fellow soldiers are killed and the final scenes are of him coming home after being pulled from active service.
It was an entertaining dream and the composition interested me. It broke from many of the bad ass hero film tropes that have come before and as a result felt darker and more realistic. Hollywood has a tendency of ruining potential gold with terrible story, so I would expect this to be butchered if it was ever really picked up.
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