Day 2884 - Rambo: Last Blood

First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Rambo
and now Rambo: Last Blood

I can't say I'm the biggest Rambo fan in the world considering I've never seen the second or third installments of the franchise.  I think the first one is fine, but I thought the fourth one was great.  So, my expectations were probably a little heightened for the newest one.

Don't see it.  It's bad.  It's Rambo meets Taken and not in a good way.

John's doing just fine on his ranch.  He's raising his niece, digging tunnels underneath the ranch, and breaking some horses.  It's a good life.  But then his niece decides to travel to Mexico to find her dad, and ask him why he left.  And things go very, very bad from there.

As it is, it's not a wholely bad setup.  Rambo has to go down to Mexico to rescue his niece from some bad men.  While there, Rambo gets his butt kicked.  He's brought back to health by a journalist (played by Paz Vega) who has her own reasons to want to see those bad men taken down.

What follows is carnage.  Lots and lots of carnage.  And while that's usually something I'm all about, in this case, it just doesn't do it.  Besides being a bleak film, it's also poorly written.  That journalist from before, when we first meet her, she wants justice.  When we meet her a second time, she wants Rambo to stay away.  I shouldn't notice things like that in an action movie.  When I do, you know the movie is getting lazy. 

I guess what's most disappointing is that the movie doesn't feel like a Rambo movie.  It just feels generic.

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