My Dad is as much of a night owl as I am and we have decided that we like going to late movies on Saturday nights (we saw Ad Astra a few weeks ago) and now we want to go as often as we can. Last night we decided to see Rambo: Last Blood and we had such a good time. Vietnam veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is suffering from PTSD but has found a measure of peace on his father's horse ranch in Arizona and has created a surrogate family with his housekeeper Maria (Adriana Barraza) and her granddaughter Gabriela (Yvette Monreal). Gabriela has tracked down the father who abandoned her and her mother and, against Rambo's advice, she travels to Mexico to confront him. After her father rejects her, she goes to a club where she is drugged and kidnapped by a sex-trafficking ring run by Hugo and Victor Martinez (Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Oscar Jaenada, respectively). Rambo travels to Mexico to save her but is unsuccessful. He ultimately kills Victor forcing an epic confrontation with Hugo and a large group of his hitmen back at his ranch where he has booby trapped a series of elaborate underground tunnels. This confrontation, which is the entire third act of the movie, is violent, graphic, and intense but it is strangely satisfying. Even though they are violent, the action sequences are amazing because Rambo uses a variety of different weapons in very innovative ways and I actually wanted to cheer when a particularly despicable character meets a grisly end. I really liked Rambo's character arc in this movie because this time around he is exacting revenge for the brutal death of a loved one and there are scenes that are filled with genuine emotion. I also liked the fact that Rambo isn't entirely invincible in this movie. He willingly puts himself in harm's way, and gets beaten very badly, for the sake of someone he loves and that is what makes this a fitting conclusion his story. All of the critics hated this movie but I think fans of the franchise will enjoy it.
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