Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

Old Rambo works for me

So it’s not that bad of a flick. Cause we are all thinking it. Sly is too old to play Rambo. It’s not like with Creed cause Rocky is not in the ring. They got a younger guy to do the fighting and Balboa gets to be the mentor. John Rambo is still in the fight, and as unbelievable as it is that one man can go up ageist an army of cops, Vietnam refugees, Iraq rebels, etc… it’s even harder when that same man is now a senior citizen, but what does make Sly a decent filmmaker is that fact that he knows this too. He’s well aware that Danny Glover’s famous catch phrase includes him. So he designed a movie base on that. John Rambo is fighting a fight he thinks he knows but he’s entering a world that he knows nothing about. He gets tossed around and beat up proving that he’s just a man (Although in real life if a 70-something year old man took this beating, he’d be dead), but in the end, Rambo proved that his best weapon is his mind (Despite how wacked out of it he might be)and used it to rage some action packed bloody hell. It’s a quick time at the movies with a 60 min story about how Rambo found peace only to have it snatch away from him. Then it’s 29mins of pure mindless violence that totally satisfies in a way only an 80s action hero can. Give mad credit to Stallone, he knows how to come back to a character. Despite a typical archetype of a story use to move the minutes along it was performed with a darkness that only a man who knows his character can do. It’s a story that gets dark and it only makes Rambo’s thrust for blood even better when he goes for vengeance. Have to admit if this is that last one he went out on a high point (especially if your were really into First Blood).