Jeri Jacquin
Currently on Bluray/DVD and Digital from director
Adrian Grunberg and Lionsgate Home Entertainment comes the return of the
soldier everyone underestimates and is known as RAMBO: Last Blood.
John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is living a quiet life
on his ranch along with niece Carmen (Paz Vega) and her grandmother Maria
(Carmen Delgado). Everything seems to be going along fine until Rambo discovers
that Carmen has questions about her father living in Mexico. Trying to tell her
he isn’t a good man; Carmen wants her own answers.
With the help of cousin Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal),
Carmen sneaks over the boarder to visit her father to ask why he left. Not
getting the answer she was hoping for and visibly upset, Gabrielle suggests
that Carmen stay for the night and she will cheer her up by taking her to the
local club for some fun.
It isn’t until Carmen wakes up that she realizes
something has gone horribly wrong. Maria has learned that her granddaughter is
missing and Rambo isn’t about to let that fly. He takes a trip across the
border to discover from Gabrielle where Carmen was last seen. To his horror,
she has been taken by a notorious cartel that kidnaps young women.
Rambo also runs the leaders El Flaco (Pascacio Lopez),
Don Manuel (Joaquin Cosio) and Hugo Martinez (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) who have
no intention of giving Carmen back, in fact, they are going to make it even
more difficult.
That is when Rambo takes a deep breath and knows they
are going to have to play by his rules and that means they couldn’t possibly be
prepared for what happens next.
Stallone as Rambo brings back the haunted fighter of a
man who thought he had finally found peace in the world. Of course there are
always bad guys to test him and these particular men have no idea who they are
dealing with. Stallone is sullen, doesn’t speak a lot but gets the job done
none the less and, as usual, not without great personal pain. Leaving the final
scene open, I have no idea if John Rambo will ever pop up again.
Vega as Carmen is the typical teen who thinks she
knows everything and that adults are just talking nonsense. Of course, like the
typical teen that thinks adults are talking nonsense, Carmen finds herself on
the end of a stick and her actions are the match. Trusting family is the one
thing she counted on and you see how that works out for her right? Beltran as
Maria just wants Carmen to be happy but when that doesn’t work she puts her
faith in John Rambo. Monreal as Gabrielle is that cousin everyone loves but no
one wants alone in their home or the silver goes missing!
Peris-Mencheta, Cosio and Lopez as the bad guys are
exactly that – very ugly bad guys! They have no one wit of care about Carmen or
Rambo let alone the girls they have in their capture. They are all about money,
power and fear but then again they’ve never met anyone like John Rambo so as I
suspected the lesson was swift, extremely painful and a bit harsh in some
spots. That’s a warning for you squeamish folks out there!
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LAST BLOOD: Multipart Production Diary, From First Note to LAST BLOOD: Music
for the Massacres and Official Trailer.
As each Rambo film has come along, it seems the
character has learned new and better ways to end the bad guys. I watched the
film with that five-year-old thing kids do with your hand over your eyes but
fingers spread apart because you don’t want to see it but you do have to see
it. So be warned there are a few scenes that make your jaw drop.
This is definetly an action film because once the slap
John Rambo to the ground you know from that moment on, he’s plotting doom.
That’s when the non-stop battle begins and he’s pretty epic about it. From
explosions to weaponry to tactics that made me think “I’d never have thought of
that”, this is totally a Rambo film from beginning to end.
I mean when Stallone takes to Twitter and says, “Great
day! We got our HARD R rating today! What’s coming is going to be unlike
anything you have ever seen…” He also said he would play John Rambo as long as
the films continue to be successful. I tend to take his word for it. This is
also the shortest Rambo film along with the shortest hair John Rambo has ever
had so there’s something for everyone.
So, load up the couch with munchies and turn off the
lights because if you have a big screen and sound bar as part of your home
theatre – this is going to get good!
In the end – everyone has one more fight left in them!
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