” — another cruel and ugly showcase of xenophobic carnage squeezed into barely 80 minutes and packaged for export — the tired, now-septuagenarian action figure turns his notorious sense of loathe-thy-neighbor vengeance toward the Mexican cartels, who’ve kidnapped his college-bound niece Gabrielle and turned her into a smack-addicted sex slave.
Singlehandedly doing more to support the Second Amendment than Charlton Heston ever has, Rambo movies view weapons the way Quentin Tarantino does feet, turning a well-greased gun barrel into a whatever-cocks-your-bazooka fetish object. To wit, this film’s opening shot dollies past a well-stocked ammunition rack, in which we spy a pair of M16s, a shotgun or two, and several rifles, plus a machete for good measure. So much for background checks. Rambo is clearly waiting for the war to come to him.
Early on, Victor threatens one such escapee, but stops short of punishing her in a scene that feels as if it may have been softened after test screenings — whereas no brutality has been spared against the anonymous platoon of cartel thugs Rambo later decimates. Yes, but they deserve it, one might argue. This is the reductive one-man-against-the-world reasoning by which Rambo has always operated, and I don’t buy it.
This is 100% evidence that film critics are completely out of touch. This is a shot em'up, good guy kills bad bad guys, 'switch your brain off, enjoy the action' movie for (dare I say it) MEN! The franchise has stayed true to its formula unfortunately it's not progressive enough
Wtf is wrong with you libatards? Your actually upset that he is killing drug cartel members!!! White man bad right Good lord you libatards are a complete 🤡 world.
😂are you kidding me?! variety be like “the innocent cartels are put in a bad light. They just wanna rape, spread drugs worldwide, and destroy lives. How dare a white man stand against all that harmless fun!” Give me a break! 😂
Tom Cruise’s movie used the cartel in American Made. There are literally hundreds of movies which have. The movie might be bad or it might be good. But stop with this political crap. Everything has to contextualised these days. It’s A Rambo movie stop with the PC nonesense
A big part of why Art is being eroded today is precisely because of these types of liberal madness reviews and way of thinking. We all know Mexicans aren’t all bad just like we all know all Russians it can be applied to any country in the world. Didn’t Fast Five use the cartel ?
Poor poor review bringing political agendas into the review. Rambo isnt the first movie to use the cartel or Mexicans as “The Bad Guys”. It was the Russians in part 2, so does that mean that movie was racist against them? Eh no . It’s a fuckin movie , pure escapist fun.
Good, critics are offended, gonna go see it.
Thank you for such overt, mindless left wing bias that it renders this review absolutely worthless. I will be sure to see the film in theater thanks to Variety's non stop progressive propaganda. AskDebruge Some truth for those interested:
Lmao what Beta male wrote this
Rambo being Rambo doesn’t make it a bad movie, guys.
Darn. In Rambo 1st Blood, he showed the humanity and the evil of the law-enforcement who tracked him. In Rambo 2 the antagonist Vietnamese army was juxtaposed by a strong female Vietnamese rebel. Rambo III the Afghanistan rebels were portrayed positively. Not the case anymore.
Are you saying the Mexican drug cartels aren’t bad people or that they aren’t Mexican?
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