Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega,
Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Genie Kim, Joaquín
Cosío, and Oscar Jaenada.
Rating: 8 out of 10, Old friend John
Rambo certainly wears his years and scars in full evidence. We last left him
finally making his way home to the Arizona ranch of his father. This latest
movie picks up his story a decade later and he evidently spent that time
tunneling around underneath the ranch and dealing with PTSD which makes a whole
lot of sense considering what his character has been through. A Mexican
drug/human trafficking cartel makes the mistake of taking someone close to
Rambo and the bodies are soon piling up. There seemed to be a rush to the
signature revenge porn without the semi-necessary buildup. We all know Rambo is
going to spend the last third of the movie eviscerating the bad guys but,
again, it all seemed a little rushed. The bad guys are certainly qualified to
appear in one of Rambo’s patented kill montages through their brutal acts. I
wish they’d spent some more time exploring the life Rambo built up in the
preceding decade to highlight what was lost but that may be just me wishing the
poor bastard got a little bit of a break. This would be a good place to end the
series with Rambo literally riding off into the sunset. We don’t need to see
Rambo on Mars as an octogenarian dispenser of justice.
MVP: Stallone as the once and forever tarnished
knight – Rambo – John J
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