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Sep 20, 2019 · Taken simply on its own merits, “Rambo: Last Blood” is an undeniably awful movie. While the previous installment may have brought to mind many of the cheapo “Rambo” knockoffs produced in the ‘80s by Cannon Films and featuring the likes of Chuck Norris or Michael Dudikoff , this one feels more like a direct-to-video item that ...
Sep 20, 2019 · 26% Tomatometer 175 Reviews 81% Audience Score 5,000+ Verified Ratings Vietnam War veteran John Rambo tries to find some semblance of peace by raising horses on a ranch in Arizona. He's also ...
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By Witney Seibold
Updated: Apr 28, 2020 10:10 pm
Posted: Sep 18, 2019 10:00 pm
The arc of John Rambo, first begun in 1982 with Ted Kotcheff's broody action film First Blood, has been an unusual one to say the least. Rambo (sensitively portrayed by Sylvester Stallone) was initially presented as an emotionally wounded ex-soldier who had been deeply stained and hollowed out by the violence he experienced in the Vietnam war. When Rambo first whipped out his hunting knife and began eviscerating small town sheriffs, it was meant to be seen as the final, tragic crack in the soul of a broken man.
Audiences, however (and perhaps bafflingly), latched onto the film's exhilarating violence and to Rambo's soldierly efficiency more than to his tragedy, leading First Blood's subsequent sequels to transform the titular trauma sufferer into a tragedy-free, unstoppable all-American badass killing machine and pop culture's central symbol for unchallenged American military might. A character who was originally meant to stand as a symbol for the damage that war can do to a soldier is now best remembered as an unkillable human machine gun.
The newest – and ostensibly final – film in the series, Adrian Grünberg's Rambo: Last Blood, brings the series full circle by giving us a taste of both Rambos. At the film's outset, John Rambo (Stallone once more) is living on a ranch, riding horses, and holding palpable familial relationships with his teenage niece (Yvette Monreal) and would-be love interest (Adriana Barraza from The Strain). Rambo, it seems, might have actually found inner peace at last.
Although perhaps not; He has also personally dug a labyrinth of weapon-lined death tunnels under his Arizona property which will most certainly be used in an ultra-violent late-film climax wherein Rambo will murder several dozen people in increasingly gory ways.
The level of gore in this film is absurdly intense. Taking after the 2008 film, the makers of Last Blood have elected to turn Rambo's battlefield antics into something resembling a slasher movie, or perhaps an early Peter Jackson joint. By the time the filmmakers hasten to the eyeball-melting action at their film's climax, one can feel their sigh of relief in finally being able to depict outright decapitations, severed feet, exploding heads, and at least one makeshift vivisection.
Get a sense of Rambo: Last Blood's goriness by watching the red band spot below:
If the idea of Rambo laying waste to several tons of human meat sounds exhilarating, know that your eventual laughter will likely be of the bitter, incredulous variety. The violence is over-the-top in a way that isn't fun. Last Blood feels like the work a disaffected adolescent pulling the wings off of flies.
And who are these people Rambo is murdering? The impetus for the film's action comes from a plot that closely resembles Taken in both its setup, its older dad action fantasy, and its cultural insensitivity. When the Monreal character goes to Mexico to find her estranged father, she is almost instantly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery by two cartoonishly evil Mexican crime lords (Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Óscar Jaenada) who revel in filth the same way you or I might revel in a warm bath. It is then up to Rambo to attempt to rescue her, hence running afoul of said crime lords and beginning a hastily escalating rivalry. Paz Vega has a small role as a deliverer of exposition.
The filmmakers have made Mexico seem like an infinite wasteland of crime and death, and most of the Latinx characters on screen are criminals or broad stereotypes. I understand that Rambo films have rarely been bastions of cultural togetherness, but in 2019, these broad stereotypes are offensive and dated and downright irresponsible.
The Rambo series continues its track record of ultra-violence, shallow characterization, and irresponsible politics in Rambo: Last Blood, a film with more gore than a horror film, and some legit badass action that, all too unfortunately, plays like the dark fantasies of an angry teen.
- Witney Seibold
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Sep 20, 2019 · 26. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 515 User Ratings. 7.5. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review. Where to Watch. Prime Video ($3.99) All Watch Options. View All. Sylvester Stallone. John Rambo. Paz Vega. Carmen Delgado. Sergio Peris-Mencheta. Hugo Martinez. Adriana Barraza. Maria Beltran. Yvette Monreal. Gabriela.
Sep 20, 2019 · Overall, Rambo: Last Blood is a film that has the right stuff to make this finale great, but what is there is either not enough or cut down to reach a certain runtime. Stallone's performance makes it at least worth a watch as it tries it's best to blend the series violent aspects with the more character driven first film.
