Rambo: Last Blood review - Stallone storms Mexico in a laughable Trumpian fantasy
(The Guardian Culture News)

The grizzled warrior dusts off his crossbow to take revenge on sex traffickers in a creaking, cringeworthy fifth instalment This massively enlarged prostate of a film can only make you wince with its badly acted geronto-ultraviolence, its Trumpian fantasies of Mexican rapists and hilariously insecure US border, and its crass enthusiasm for rape-revenge attacks undertaken by a still-got-it senior dude, 73 years young, on behalf of a sweet teenager. The film, co-written by Sylvester Stallone, imagines this demure young woman having her face slashed by an assailant but the field is left clear for a stag payback showdown; there is no question of her taking her own retributive action.Stallone´s own impassive face, now like a sculpture created by Picasso out of a Firestone tyre, presides enigmatically over the proceedings and his indistinct line readings would not get him very far in rep. His announcement of `I want you to feel my rage and my hate; I want to rip out your heart!` comes out more like `Ug wuff yuh tahfarr m´range an mayayyht, ug wuff trip ertcha heurr!` Continue reading...