Since "First Blood" (First Blood) arrived in theaters, it has a history of nearly 40 years, introducing the world to a Vietnamese veteran named John Rambo. That movie portrayed the traumatized war hero as someone who didn't want to kill, even though he could easily. The next three sequels quickly put this part aside and indulged in the kind of excessive violence known to 80s action movies. Rambo messed up things, rammed the tank into the helicopter, and seemed satisfied with the very high number of people.
Now Sylvester Stallone plays the role again after 10 years of absence. Rambo: Last Blood found an old version of this character and settled in a horse farm in Arizona. Since the last time we saw John, he has been detained by his niece and raised her with a woman who lives with them until she is ready to go to college. However, this is a Rambo movie, so it is expected that things will go wrong and become violent. Unfortunately, in following this path, Last Blood has forgotten the true meaning of the Rambo movie-and the character itself.
Although the flirting at the beginning of the movie calmed Rambo's heart, when his niece was looking for her shameless dad in Mexico, it all quickly disappeared. She was immediately kidnapped by a cartel dealing with sexual slavery led by a pair of Mexican criminal lords brothers. Rambo then crossed the border between the United States and Mexico, where he killed a group of evil Mexicans and freed his niece from the evil clutches of the cartel. On the way home, he literally drove a barbed wire fence as a border wall between the two countries-this movie is not exactly subtle. The whole plot is like a joke. However, in 2019, this is a dangerous joke, a bit too close to home.
Last Blood has worsened Mexico, portraying its citizens as crooks, sex traffickers and bloodthirsty killers. It is this type of story that stifles Americans’ xenophobia and arouses their fear of people in other countries with a great point of view.
When John's niece said he was going there to find her father, the message from the beginning was that Mexico is a dangerous place. Once there, everyone Rambo meets-except for a single character who appears in several scenes for display-is ridiculously evil. This movie is too lazy to draw fully formed characters around Rambo, or real thoughts about life in Mexico. Instead, it relies on racial stereotypes and triggers fear to tell its story.
Finally, when Cartel came to Rambo's home to retaliate, he brutally killed them with a series of booby traps, feeling as if they had been released from some crazy version of their separate home. The film took a fairly short running time and montages, showing the traps set by Rambo, which will immediately reminiscent of the image of the young Macaulay Culkin.
Stallone has the experience to re-examine his famous figures and give them the depth they previously lacked. This happened in Rocky Balboa and the two subsequent Creed movies. Last Blood could have done something similar. There is a way to maintain Rambo’s franchise, but it can also be used for actual character development. And there is a way to do this without creating strange things like Last Blood. On the contrary, the movie we ended up with seemed to misunderstand the character and project him in a different light.
It is puzzling that John Rambo is a kind of apocalyptic prefabricator. He is a man. For some unknown reason, he built a series of carefully designed tunnels under his Arizona farm and filled them with weapons and explosives, just waiting for a reason to use it all up. No matter how much sympathy the movie tries to make you feel, it's hard to think of this character as a hero
. But let's talk about these tunnels and the content inside them. Compared with previous Rambo films, the violence shown in this film has more in common with the Saw franchise. Although guns, knives and bows have always been closely related to the characters, these weapons have become tools of complete destruction in the new movie, leading to some incredibly uncomfortable and disturbing scenes
It can be said that the 2008 Rambo appeared The previous featureThe bloody emotions of Xu's management part, including scenes including shooting people in half like John using a huge gun. Despite this, even this movie has never lingered for too long in the terrible chaos caused by Rambo
As for the performance, the only person who gets significant screen time is Stallone. This older Rambo is quieter and was popular at first. Stallone seemed to like to play with a settled John in a short time. He is at a stage in his life and what he is most worried about is that his niece goes to college and constantly struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. He still spent some time in Vietnam. Once the movie fell off the bloody cliff, he was still a quiet old man, which was a bit disturbing given that he was killing dozens of people. The movie
is full of minor characters, from his niece Gabriel (Yvette Monreal) to the Mexican journalist (Paz Vega) to the old woman who lives with John and Gabriel (Adriana Barraza). It is unclear what her relationship with these two people is, but don't worry about the details. The movie does not.
Then there are bad guys. Oscar Jaenada and Sergio Peris-Mencheta play brother crime lords, and they are not that funny as villains. They are evil because of who they are. The film does not care about explaining the motivations that motivate them or giving them any depth. They are just bad guys, that's it.
All characters except Stallone Rambo are not worth discussing. The film ensures this by not giving any depth or development. They are just to make Stallone's character react.
Unfortunately, this is how the Rambo team must end-if this is actually the end. Although the franchise has always been high-profile in terms of critical reception-receiving good reviews for the first time, not so many reviews-they found and connected with the audience celebrating them. This is a character that has lasted for nearly forty years, and even has its own cartoon at some point-seriously, there is a children's cartoon series based on Rambo. However, no matter what your feelings about the team are, it is clear that this is not the direction it should go. This movie is despicable, crude, and xenophobic, and it's not worth your time or energy to watch it.
