It's a long road... but we reached the end by drawing Last Blood *spoilers*

Tried to cram as many Rambo references as I could in the title.  obviously  I'm going to talk about Rambo last blood.
I can only describe this movie ass when I have taken one have Home Alone and Mortal Kombat 10 levels of violence. This movie is the perfect send-off to the Rambo franchise. Far more better than Rambo (4). After the events of the 4th movie, Rambo returns home and sort of forms a family.

Spoilers below



Rambo's "niece", Gabrielle, whose father abandoned her shortly after Rambo returned from Burma, discovered her father's location and wants to see him. Everyone telles her that it's a bad idea. But being a teenager means that she will disobey Rambo anyway and goes to Mexico. There she is Taken.

Rambo does a bad Liam Neeson impression and gets his ass kicked. An independent journalist saves him and he finds his niece who dies of a forced overdose.
Rambo crosses the border illegally back to the US to bury Gabrielle. He "kicks out" Gabrielle's grandma or aunt... I can't remember... so he can booby trap the ranch, Home Alone style. He goes back to Mexico to taunt the Drug capos/human traffickers that killed Gabrielle. (By going Rambo on one of them.) This causes the remaining capo to want revenge. They bypass the existing walled section with Tunnels. Once they reach the US, Rambo goes Kevin McCallister on the attackers and kills all the grunts before the main boss. This one gets Kano'd as a wounded Rambo sits on a rocking chair awaiting death.  his life flashes before his eyes and we get a summary from First Blood to Rambo last blood. Then the end credits showed up I stood up and left and missed out on the post-credits scene
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Rambo didn't actually die he just got up and rode into the sunset.

I hate the post-credits scene... The perfect ending was right there. We didn't know if Rambo was alive or not. That way if there was no sequel, the ending was perfect. If a sequel materialized, then we got it. Now with the post-credits scene we "have sequel potential".

The movie is getting bad reviews for the stupidest of reasons:
"It's too violent!" It's Rambo... of course, it's violent! Violence is a part of Rambo.

He returns home from the War, but he's abused back home by a sheriff on a power trip. This causes Rambo to snap and retaliate. While here Rambo avoided killing as much as possible, he did hurt some puruers badly.

By First Blood part II, the idea of Rambo had changed dramatically. Here he becomes the killing machine, monster of a man, that he is known as in popular culture.
Betrayed by the US Government after a recon mission gone awry, Rambo is forced to fight the Viet Cong, Russians, and the US Government official who betrayed him. While in the first one, Rambo resorted to violemce as a retaliation, he showed restraint. Here all restraint is thrown out the window and Rambo becomes the monster.

Rambo III, well, it kept the monster killing machine Rambo, BUT it attempted to go back to the original idea of Rambo. A man who has seen so much of Hell tries to live something as close to a normal life, but Hell keeps coming back for him. This time Hell comes calling when Colonel Trautman gets captured by the Russians in Afghanistan. Rambo once again walks the path of violence to save his mentor/friend.

In the fourth installment, Rambo, who had finally managed something close to a normal life gets dragged into violence when a group of Christian Missionaries he escorted on a boat ride get captured.

Now, we have the fifth movie which keeps the theme of a Monster who had regained enough humanity to live a normal life. (Or as much humanity as one can have after 4 Rambo mpvies. His tunnels are an example of the soldier within unable to adapt to normal life, prepared a controlled battlefield in case it was needed.) This sense of normalcy is taken away after his "niece" gets kidnapped and dies in his arms.

The theme of a man being dragged to hell it through violence has been constant in Rambo. I guess some people may have an issue with Rambo somewhat enjoying some of the violin near the end especially the part where he goes Kano on the bad guy. I don't think that he was truly enjoying it as some people claim. To be fair he was delivering the same kind of suffering he had but in a more visceral sense. His enjoyment wasn't necessarily for the violence but for bringing Justice to his niece.

Seriously going to see a Rambo movie and being surprised by the violence it's rather ridiculous.


Another stupid reason that the movie is getting bad reviews is because "it's racist".
Dangle they're going with the whole racism thing is because the bad guys happen to be Mexican.
They're bad guys wear human traffickers / drug traffickers. They just happened to be Mexican. Let's not forget that the reporter that help Rambo was also Mexican. Also Gabrielle and her aunt or Grandma were Mexican as well. Tthey weren't evil so, the racist Rambo idea kinda falls flat. Must we forget that in three out of five movies the bad guys were white?  First Blood Part 2 how did Russians in addition to the Viet Cong.

 does it feel a bit derivative? Yes yes it does. But the movie Sailors its purpose of delivering Rambo's last hurrah... until Rsmbo VI. Personally I believe he should stay in v