So it’s up to Rambo to go to Mexico, kill everybody, save his niece, and then kill everybody else.Īs a simplistic action movie – setting the franchise’s overt messaging aside for a minute – Rambo: Last Blood is little more than a Taken knockoff. And sure enough, she’s almost immediately kidnapped, drugged, and violently forced into prostitution. Rambo tells her not to go, that her father is a bad man and the friend who helped her track him down is a “bad girl,” but Gabrielle goes anyway. But first she wants to confront her absentee father, who fled to Mexico and hasn’t spoken with her in many years. His niece, Gabrielle ( Yvette Monreal, Matador), is like a daughter to him, and she’s about to go off to college. He spends his idyllic days breaking horses and digging an elaborate series of underground tunnels, for no particular reason other than they might be useful in an action sequence later. Last Blood picks up ten years after Rambo, with Rambo living on a ranch at the Mexican-American border. They’re all violent action movies, and some are played more seriously than others, but they’ve always been confrontational, not escapist. The confusingly titled Rambo sent Sylvester Stallone’s hero into Burma, to rescue Christian missionaries from victimization. Rambo III found John Rambo teaming up with the Afghan Mujahideen to fight the Russians. First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II, despite their different tones, reflected the ugly fallout of the Vietnam War. Of course, the Rambo movies have always been political. But in order to earn that level of violence it oversteps its bounds, and becomes a very disturbing political statement. It’s gross, and that should be entertaining. The fifth installment of the popular action franchise features amputations, mutilations, disfigurations, exploderations, and at least one thing I’ve never seen anybody do with a collar bone. If you want to see truly horrific gore, Rambo: Last Blood is waiting for you.
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