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The worst Rambo movie ever? Could have been the best.

posted 3 years ago by lolkatz (496)
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This film could have been like Gran Torino or something, had it gone for more subtlety and a more nuanced plot. Instead we get a superhero Rambo, seemingly even more capable than when he was much younger. Had they factored in his age and made him more frail, you'd have more drama there and raised stakes. Wouldn't that engage the viewer more? And that shallow plot, "Now they went for his niece, big mistake!" LOL, it sounds like a trailer for a Jack Slater sequel in The Last Action Hero.

[–] moviechatterer (15935) 3 years ago

all good points.
a bit of a departure from the "blood and guts routine" as Trautman put it , would have been cool.

[–] Gruesome28 (102) 3 years ago

It wasn’t the action filled send off I was hoping for, the original draft had WAY more bloody action and gore

[–] sONOMArEturns (1274) 3 years ago

i agree. it could've been a really cool film more in the vein of first blood, but stallone's ego got in the way because he had to prove he wasn't too old yet.

[–] millsey72 (10544) 2 years ago

For me this is the definitive and best Rambo movie in the franchise

[–] TheArgentinian (7178) 9 months ago

lol, what a shit take

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 2 years ago

This one had the same problem as the third one for me. In both, Rambo is so cartoonishly overpowered that it's ridiculous.

There's no sense of danger & he's indestructible. He's basically just The Terminator.

[–] millsey72 (10544) 2 years ago

And thats why this and the 3rd are the best Rambo movies. We want our heroes strong and as indestructible as possible. And by the way, The Terminator was a great movie also

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 2 years ago

The Terminator is amazing. So are the first 2 Rambo films. The fourth rambo is pretty good as well.

[–] Befus (497) 2 years ago

He wasn't indestructible. When he first went to the cartel he got a gang beating and nearly killed because he went in without a plan, he was blinded by concern for his niece. He's a master at guerilla warfare and setting traps so he lured them back to his ranch where he had an advantage and could pick them off one at a time. And even there he still got shot a couple times and we're not really sure if he survives, so he's not invincible.

[–] Boricanator (1447) 2 years ago

This was a Rambo that didn’t act like Rambo.

When he first confronted the Cartel, he just walked in and got his ass kicked.

The real Rambo wouldn’t do that. He’s an expert in guerrilla warfare. He should know how to blend in and sneak around.

Then he creates this convoluted plot when he blows up his family’s farm and becomes a homeless traveler again.

At least the 2008 film seemed to give him some closure with him going to his father’s farm.

[–] BOandBarbecue (2264) 2 years ago

you are correct

i still like this film better than rambo 4

i like first blood 1 and 2 best. rambo 3 is like cartoons. rambo 4 is like rambo: cannibal holocaust part 2. last blood has some heart, and home alone finale hahahahhah

[–] TMC-4 (20268) 2 years ago

6 Reasons Rambo: Last Blood Is The Franchise’s Worst Movie

https://screenrant.com/rambo-last-blood-worst-movie-ruin-franchise/

Rambo: Last Blood looks likely to be the final Rambo movie, and the sequel is by far the worst addition to the Sylvester Stallone franchise.

[–] Rusty (548) 2 years ago

It’s fantastic. Great, simple revenge plot with absolutely brutal kills, and a menacing central performance from Stallone.

Only bit I dislike is Rambo walking into the favelas and getting instantly surrounded and overpowered. I don’t buy that he’d be that dumb.

Also, slightly weird how the reporter woman just vanishes from the film. I suspect much of her involvement ended up on the cutting room floor and it was probably the right choice, we want to get to Rambo punishing dem fools.

[–] Mustang (5520) 2 years ago

Yep for a supposed special forces guy he isn't very stealthy.

[–] Aylmer (534) 6 months ago

excellent point.

This film was a major letdown for me because it didn't seem to fit at all with the rest of the series. It could have taken itself seriously like 1+4 or been a giant action cartoon like 2, 3, and the ending of 4. I thought it was going to tie things up and maintain a similar style to 4, but instead it seems like it totally discards the promise of the ending of 4, which is odd since Stallone directed both.

I'm upset that he never gets to hang out with his father or any other relatives in this film.

Also Rambo, as a character, doesn't feel at all like Rambo from the other movies. 2 and 3 were silly and over the top but at least he demonstrated that he was more of a covert infiltrator than an outright murder machine unless he was penned into a corner. He was a "thinking man's" action hero. A lot of the time he'd simply shoot people, but he also devised a lot of clever traps, spur of the moment and outwitted his opponents just as much as he out-brawled them. I loved the fight with the brute in Rambo 3 because he essentially did both - defeated the guy physically while also engineering the guy's death with a combination of tying a bungee cord around him and pulling the pins on his grenades while fighting him.

This film has him just walk into a cartel-owned brothel with no weapons and no plan. His character doesn't seem to be clever in the least until the ending HOME ALONE type sequence where he funnels the bad guys into various traps in his house. It essentially becomes a giant cartoonish version of STRAW DOGS but with zero realism. How did 20+ cartel members all get across the border with so many weapons and why would they attack so carelessly in broad daylight with no effort to collect intel at all? Once they start getting killed by various traps, they all behave like scared ants and just run around mindlessly while Rambo kills them one by one. It's lazy and weak and lacks any variety or intellectual surprises.