Rambo: Last Blood review

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just pure carnage and death

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Meh, it was an R-rated Home Alone. He is too old to do any stunts so he just set up a bunch of booby traps in his doomsday shelter.

Can't believe the franchise has been around this long.

Was at the Fort Bragg premiere at the Alvin C York theater in 1982. Nothing but harddicks with Berets in there except for a few wives of some of the field grade HQ guys.

All these years later it's still around.

At the end of the movie when he started crying and saying he wanted to go back to Bragg the entire theater erupted with laughs and "no you don't you dumb frick!"

It was hillarious.

But man we scored so much poon for awhile after that movie came out. We were all Rambos to the general public.

i am die hard fan of sylvester stallone

Yeah, plot was a complete mess.

But damn the last 20-30 min was fun

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If you don't give a shite about story and just want to see John J. Rambo frick people up.

10/10

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these movies don't aim to be oscar contenders

It was very underwhelming compared to Rambo 4. That movie was nonstop awesome.

Well, to be honest the entire story arch was about a damaged SF soldier suffering from a severe case of PTSD who was mistreated by a small town sheriff and his underlings just because he wanted something to eat after finding out his buddy was dead from the agent orange or whatever.

There were a lot of holes in the plot, sure. And a lot of hollywood creative license.

The DOD wouldn't have sent his old CO in to get him..

The knife was a piece of tangless shite with a hollow tubular handle that wouldn't have last a day in the field without breaking off st the hilt yet the damn thing was custom built by AG Russell if I remember correctly and, along with the knockoffs, theynsold millions of those worthless things complete with a compass for a butt cap.

He used the knife to kill a pig, survive an old mine, make a torch and poncho, build various booby traps .... all nonsense.

The leap from the cliff into the spruce tree would have killed him but all he does is come out of it with a cut, which he promptly sutures with a kit in the knife handle.

He takes down a Huey with a rock. Nah that ain't gonna happen.

Works his way back into town and starts blowing shite up everywhere .... state police called out along with the national guard who just happens to be packing LAWs and M60s for a man hunt. Every 60 gunner from the JFK Center all the way down Ardeines was nicknamed Rambo after that movie.

Then he manages to get inside the sheriff's department and he enacts his final revenge.

He only killed one person the entire time ... the rest he maimed or wounded.

Then he cried that he wanted to go back to Bragg. lol

The music was shite ..... I think his brother Frank sang the closing credits.

Massive hit at the box office though so the movie did what it was supposed to do.

I'm just surprised the franchise is still around.

You figure Rambo had to be 28-30 at the time. So now he has to be nearing 70. So am I and my Rambo days are long long past me and have been for a couple of decades. Most of my buddies and I can barely walk from the old injuries. Many walk slumped because of humping rucks for so many years. Ankles and legs shattered, femurs snapped in half, broken clavicles, broken backs .... doctors tell us our xrays look like bad car wreck victims yet John Rambo is still out there kicking arse and taking names.

Also, we were all issued heavy duty automatic knives back then if for nothing else other than to cut away as a towed jumper. Those of us that carried fixed blade choppers or pig stickers almost always carried Fairbairn-Sykes type knives that had been modified with full tangs or else some carried Buck Generals that had to be dipped and blued to knock the shine off.

No one would be caught dead with that piece of shite Rambo carried.

But it was a fun movie and, as stated before, back in the day it changed the way the public looked at us. The military had been looked upon in an unfavorable light since Vietnam and First Blood changed that perception, some were all grateful for that. Especially those of us at Bragg in those days. Fayettenam was a rough town back then and the movie made it tougher for the cops to billy club us first and ask questions later.

Matter of fact after one particular incident when a troop was beaten senseless by the cops downtown the base commander put the city off limits to all troops on base. Happened while First Blood was still in theaters.

Within two weeks the city was begging our base commander to free us because they were losing so much money and things literally changed overnight.

That movie was a big deal back then.

First half was fine. Second half, ugh. Like they are really going to come invade his home across the border.

I would've rather seen Rambo going on a destroy em all mission on their turf. Would've made it a little more believable.

Pretty sure it wasn't a Huey. It was a regular helicopter they borrowed from the lumber yard. I don't think the copter went down either. It just spun and prick cop fell.

Didn't little kids kill a pig with a sharp stick in Lord of the Flies? I don't think they are that hard to kill.

Stallone has a reputation as a huge knife guy. People fight to get their knives in his movies. The Statham one in the Expendables is like 1200 dollars. It is beautiful, but crazy expensive..