Sylvester Stallone is nearing the twilight of his career. He’s decided to retire some of his characters, including John Rambo, a decades’ old action hero and war icon. His final farewell as the Vietnam veteran comes in the form of Rambo: Last Blood. The classically made action film, however, was not well received by major critics because Mexican drug dealers were the bad guys, and Rambo was a masculine, testosterone-fueled badass, which was far too much for their thin, soy-filled veins to handle.
As reported by Bounding Into Comics, the Rotten Tomatoes score currently sits at 34%, while the audience rating rests at 94%.
There’s a rather obvious dichotomy between what audiences think of the action film and what critics think about it.
If you read any of their actual articles, the contents boil down to them not liking the action, not liking Rambo or the characters, and not liking that Rambo is killing a bunch of Mexican cartel members.
YouTuber TheQuartering poked fun at the critics for their safe-space shrilling at Last Blood.
An example of one of those urinalists who just couldn’t quite cope with the contents of the film is Katie Walsh from the Chicago Tribune, who nearly writes in defense of the Mexican sex traffickers, calling the film “topically xenophobic”…
“”Last Blood” is deeply, topically xenophobic. And while, obviously, the “Rambo” films aren’t exactly known for their international diplomacy, the hackneyed, poorly executed racial stereotypes and sexual violence to which Gabriella is subjected is just offensively lazy screenwriting. The whole script is lazy. It’s barely a script at all. Writers Stallone, Matthew Cirulnick and Dan Gordon trade on charged imagery rather than, you know, actually writing characters that fully express the spectrum of human morality. “Good vs. evil” is an idea John, who articulates himself like he’s endured one too many traumatic brain injuries, is obsessively hung up on, in that sometimes he monosyllabically grunts about ‘bad guys.’”
Slate’s Sam Adams took a more brazen approach in avoiding any kind of subtext or subtlety in using the review of Last Blood to convey his political leanings for everyone to witness in all its pathetic glory.
Adams has to spend an inordinate amount of time setting up his piece to get to the Trump bashing, much like his criticisms of Last Blood taking too long to get to the killing, but when he gets there he makes sure that his TDS is flared up and ready to be witnessed like a yeast infection in a 4K airing of Hustlers’ stage segments. Adams writes…
“[…] no matter how extreme Rambo’s vengeance might seem—at one point, he blows a man’s head apart with a shotgun, then shoots him several times in the torso for good measure—he’s doing it because he’s driven, not because he enjoys it. Enjoying it is our department, as we watch one brown-skinned bad guy after another get blown up and dismembered and tortured, but the movie can’t even bring itself to savor the spectacle. Last Blood is clearly an attempt to cash in on Trump-era fears of immigrant invasion—as the Mexican traffickers gather themselves for their assault on Rambo’s home, there’s a pointed shot of the border fence—but its climactic American carnage is a joyless grind.”
That’s right, folks. Killing evil Mexican sex traffickers is akin to people not wanting open borders. Then again, I don’t even see how that’s a bad thing.
But one of the most woke takes on Stallone’s eponymous hero’s final hooray is Grace Randolph’s review of a movie she otherwise never would have seen if not for doing it for the hate clicks.
Randolph calls the film “misogynistic” and “racist”.
What’s Randolph’s suggestion for Stallone? To stick with working under colored directors.
Obviously this didn’t go down well with normal people who are getting absolutely fed up with all of this racist nonsense pushed by reviewers like Randolph, and they thankfully responded in kind by downvoting the video.
If this could be summed up based on what the critics are saying and how audiences are responding, it looks like Rambo: Last Blood is a good, masculine action film that gets back to encouraging boys to use their testosterone in heroic ways, and to paint evil villains as evil. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, and if we had more of it then I’m sure America could quickly heal the rifts created by the Left’s disease-ridden diversity agitprop.
(Thanks for the news tip Guardian Evaunit02)
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