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I just got back from seeing "Rambo: Last Blood." My first thought leaving the theater was that there was nothing redeeming about the movie. It did not make me feel good at any part of the movie. And maybe my (middle) age is showing, but I thought it was too gory. Not slasher film gory, just too.... much. If I explain why, I give away too many spoilers.
The author of the book that "First Blood" was based on distanced himself from this movie and said it had no soul. I found that was a good way to put t.
I did not find it racist which some people have apparently. Rambo goes after the bad guys. The bad guys are Mexican... and one dimensional. The writing is not good at all. It's a formula and once it gets going, you can fill in the blanks before they show you what happens on screen.
3 out of 5 stars tops.
I believe there were ten of us in the theater watching it. It's not going to be a huge hit
I went and saw this last night. There were maybe twenty people, if that. Not a big turnout for early evening. I know it had major competition this weekend, but I figured it would do slightly better.
Alas, the minuses outweigh the plusses with this maybe-not-the-last installment.
It's a linear, by-the-numbers revenge story, complete with oh-so-bad Mexican human traffickers and a very predictable three-act structure. But it all unfolds a bit too quickly: At ninety minutes, this movie is just too freakin' short. It feels like it's missing hefty chunks of footage; this is confirmed by dialogue heard in the trailer that's not in the movie, and at least one complete rescue scene dropped from the theatrical cut. (That scene isn't attached to the main narrative.)
Paz Vega does fine with what little she's given. The other main female lead is given some atrocious dialogue. John Rambo's I-need-revenge speech falls short (his closing lines are better).
Yeah, it's a Rambo movie, but I expected a little more. Action movies don't need to operate at breakneck speeds all the time. Exhibit A: No Country for Old Men. Exhibit B: Sicario. Those are the movies that should have served as templates, not Sly's Expendables trilogy.
As far as the gore goes, well, that's the one area where they really went for it. And you know how I love gore. Don't go in expecting surgical cuts and sniper kills. The violence is downright gruesome this time.
Stallone is a hard guy to figure out. I don't think he's a mindless himbo. He has proven he can write and direct. And not just a workman job. ROCKY is a great script.
Which makes me wonder why he still churns out schlock. ??? Is he just not trying? Is it just a money grab? Why not aim a little higher?
Stallone is a hard guy to figure out. I don't think he's a mindless himbo. He has proven he can write and direct. And not just a workman job. ROCKY is a great script.
Which makes me wonder why he still churns out schlock. ??? Is he just not trying? Is it just a money grab? Why not aim a little higher?
I would think often times actors, directors, writers, etc just want to work. Right? No different than any other creative enterprise, not every painter is Michelangelo, not every composer is Beethoven, not every writer is Hemingway, etc, etc, etc.
They aren't all seminal works that are bound for Oscar-filled glory....
This could very well happen. As much as I like Stallone and Rambo, I hope this does not get filmed. First Blood was extremely well done. We got brief flashes of Rambos time in Vietnam. More effective though was his emotional outburst when with the general and surrounded by police. His vivid description of his friend getting blown up was jarring.
My point is the imagination of what happened to Rambo is enough. To create another action film going that far back takes away from the character. Even though the war has still not ended for Rambo, all things come to an end regardless. I think this should be it for the character. It's time. The old movies will still be watched for years to come. Trying to keep going is tacky, and Hollywood does this too much as it is.
Yup.
Clint Eastwood can get away with playing old guys in action movies because Clint always picks a character and a script that fit his age. And Clint has seldom stuck with one character he plays more than 2-3 times. He hasn't repeated any of his characters since the 1980s.
I really don't want to watch Stallone at age 70 trying to pull off what he could do at 30. Old Rambo isn't a real appealing character to me.
Like you mentioned, Scott, Rambo was already physically and mentally damaged in First Blood. He was no kid in that flick either, and he went on to get hurt even worse in the following movies. What kind of shape would a person in their 70s be now, after all that combat? The idea of Old Rambo makes little sense to me.
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