Monday, 31 August 2020

VOD: Rambo - Last Blood (dir: Adrian Grunberg, 2019)

"You don't need to come back."

As the concept of retiring gracefully passes Stallone by, this final roll of the dice for his Rambo franchise moves into post-Taken territory as a serviceable but generic (and somewhat mean-spirited) actioner.  Stallone allegedly scaled back on the scale of action to make the film more personal and character-driven, which may explain how small the movie feels.   This is a bloody film with a high disposable body-count, but this twilight hurrah of a pop-culture character is ultimately rather mechanical and neither particularly interesting nor necessary.

 

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