Rambo: Last
Blood feels like a failed Taken (the
Liam Neeson movie) for the first 70 minutes, followed by an all-out
bloodbath for the rest of the film. We’re talking gruesome killings—heads
chopped off, hearts ripped out, and people blown to pieces. This isn’t the
filmmakers stepping it up a notch; it’s them cranking the volume from bloody to
insane.
To make things
worse, in my opinion, the first 70 minutes of Rambo doing the Taken thing
were a total snooze fest. It was boring, and even though you’d expect some
excitement in the action and pacing, the movie went from dull to tragic. It’s
like they decided Rambo is forever doomed to be a depressed hero who loses
everyone around him.
The movie’s plot
starts with Rambo trying to do good and save everyone he can. He lives on his
father’s ranch with a woman and her granddaughter. One day, the granddaughter
goes to Mexico to look for her father and gets kidnapped by a sex trafficking
ring. Rambo, who’s been caring for the girl since she’s been living with him
and her grandmother, heads to Mexico to pull a Taken-style rescue. His
“hit first, ask questions later” approach doesn’t help—it actually makes things
worse for the girl.
So, he decides
to make things worse for the Mexican cartel who took her.
Depressing
movies can work when they’re served on a well-decorated plate with enough
elements to keep you engaged. Here, the depression is served on a plate that
makes you wish you could skip everything on screen and just get to the good
part. The entire first 70 minutes could have been summed up in about 10 minutes
of screenplay because nothing meaningful really happens.
I don’t need to
spend over an hour of my time to understand that someone wants
revenge—especially after he made things worse first.
I think there
comes a time when a character has had its turn and should be packed in, that
time for Rambo has come and gone, this movie is just trying to milk the shadow
of what was.
I don’t know why
they made this movie this way. Compared to the first Rambo,
this feels like a disgrace. I don’t understand why the character of Rambo
couldn’t have gotten a better send-off. What I do know is that this is by far
not the best Rambo movie, and I didn’t enjoy it.
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