Rambo: Last Blood

Racist in addition to being offensive in its sadism.

...the violence does become too extreme towards the end, and also too predictable, so much so that I knocked it down a peg. I still walked out with nothing but respect for Stallone.

As a fan of the series, I wished for a stronger sendoff with a lot less comic book splatter.

It's just kind of mediocre.

At just under an hour and a half, [Rambo: Last Blood] still feels padded with pointless moments that do little to advance an already obvious outcome.

Last Blood is a swing into straight exploitation-movie territory, from its one-act structure to its urban slaughter with blades and hammers to its scuzzy sex-trafficking scenario, plus some wildly homoerotic wounding.

I liked the setup of “Last Blood” more than the payoff.

If First Blood flirted with slasher tropes by spending less time with the protagonist than with his prey, Last Blood crosses the line into full-fledged Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory. (The symmetry is actually rather poetic.)

Last Blood paints all of Mexico as the dangerous "other" in every sense.

These movies were never what you'd call clever, but was Rambo himself always this dumb?