Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

Rambo: Last Blood finds Sylvester Stallone going to war against vile kidnappers/human traffickers who've stolen his adopted Mexican daughter and then kill her. Merciless and enraged, Rambo goes on a fierce killing spree using imagination, blades, explosions, lots of guns, arrows, etc. to wipe them out. If you need a gruesome kill count in a story about vengeance, family and what lengths someone might go to, then Rambo delivers.

Erik M.

I saw this movie in theaters with my dad and my girlfriend.

I will have to watch this movie a second time before I can give my true opinion on it. But this is what I feel for now.

I really liked this movie. In the recent years I've been more exposed to Stallone movies and grown to love him more. I also own the first 4 Rambo movies on DvD, and since seeing this in theaters with my girlfriend, we went back and watched those first 4 together, since she'd never seen them. I had only seen them each like 1 time before except the 4th one I had seen more.

This film is a pretty good continuation of the story left off from the end of Rambo 4, where he had returned state side and settled on a farm. We get to see what he's been doing the last 10 years and how he's sort of had a surrogate family he's been taking care of.
The story is about this teenage Hispanic girl that Rambo has been helping raise since his return, who things she's got information about her real father living in Mexico. She wants to go find him and ask him why he left. When she goes, she gets abducted by the human traffickers there, and so an old Rambo must head off to try and save her.

There are some interesting elements to the film, and it actually goes into some pretty dark places I was not expecting. And I really liked and appreciated it, where you don't always have the best happiest outcome from situations like this.
and then when it leads up to the big fight at the end where the cartel and traffickers are bringing the fight to Rambo's home, we get to see much more of the traps and ingenuity of the hero that we saw glimpses of in the very first film, First Blood, back in the day. Which those were a bit missing from the 3 following films.
But Rambo is old now, and not nearly as physically capable of being the one man army he was in Rambo 3. So he has to rely on tricks and smarts, knowing his environment better than his enemy and laying traps and death machines out.

The ending is also left ambiguous, where maybe Rambo won't survive what he went through. But maybe he will. It's left open, and that's not much of a spoiler really. Though considering the state Stallone is now, and how he hurt himself making this film, I think it unlikely at this point we will get a Rambo 6.
About that, it is a shame that his injuries in this film will be putting a delay on Creed 3. And from what I heard, canceling Expendables 4 completely. Guess we will see what the future holds.

Mistake Status: Didn't catch any when watching in the theaters. Wasn't really looking. I'll probably go through the Rambo movies for mistakes some day.

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