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Cricket Australia Hopeful of Touring Pakistan in 2022
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'His Record Speaks for Itself' - Katich Says Kohli to Remain RCB Skipper
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CPL 2019: St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Beat Jamaica Tallawahs Despite Phillips Blitz
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Happy Birthday Rashid Khan - Afghanistan Superstar Turns 21
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উত্তর দিনাজপুরে এনআরসি আতঙ্ক, খবর এক ঝলকে
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Abu Dhabi T10 League Adds Revamped Bangla Tigers Franchise
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Rambo: Last Blood Review
Watching Rambo: Last Blood makes the fact that John Rambo ever had an audience a shameful one. Over the last 40 years, the Stallone staple has devolved from a mental martyr of the Vietnam War and an unreceptive welcoming party homeland into the barbaric, machine-gun-toting action “hero” we now recognize him as. Adrian Grunberg’s latest film continues to exploit the character’s comical killing abilities, somehow managing to up their brutality and in return, shredding any glimmer of intelligence and substance left standing in the decaying saga.
With that said, there was a time for these popcorn flicks. Beyond Ted Kotcheff’s 1982 classic, whose grain of astuteness may never expire, the several proceeding Rambo adventures can still be appreciated as relics of those varying positions in politics and world affairs. At this moment, however, it’s a tiresome concept, whose targeted barrage below the border against a mini population of faceless sex traffickers is not only unseemly, but frightening.
The film sees Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) having migrated to the dusty farmlands of Arizona as a seemingly reformed man. Finally ditching the strangling hairdo, a calm appears to have diffused into his lifestyle; riding horses, reconnecting with his old friend Maria (Adriana Barraza), and becoming a surrogate uncle to her Hispanic niece Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal). You know, after watching the man take out several overseas demographics of people across the years, seeing him live in the company of two Spanish-speaking compadres is a nice change of pace.
The only deviation to his efforts of complete peace is the nonsensical series of tunnels he’s erected beneath the property; they seem to serve no other purpose than to trigger combat flashbacks (which is so obvious a con that it’s amazing the man didn’t foresee them himself), and introduce us to the battleground that we know will soon come in handy.
Now, the foundation of Rambo’s mantra has always rested on his being an outsider, with a programmed callousness that’s prevented him from fully joining the citizen collective. From a living, breathing demonstration of protective instincts to a super soldier sent to disarm foreign threats, his weaponized rage has managed to be a source of both entertainment and, for the occasional quick moment, insight. But Last Blood directly addresses Rambo’s self-perception more than any of his other onscreen fests; Stallone, for instance, mutters through a heartfelt scene in which the constant struggle to hold that lid to viciousness tight is finally vocalized.
Nice try, John, but no cigar. Once tragedy strikes, taking down any faith in humanity the vet managed to cumulate since his 2008 venture, he relapses and explodes in a gruesome pursuit of vengeance. In this way, Last Blood feels seditious, as if it were designed to cheer the man into hitting rock bottom.
But let’s be honest, we can’t pretend like that’s not why the movie was made.
So no, Rambo isn’t given the avenue of self-help that he’s probably earned three or four times over. In fact, by the time the bullets have stopped flying, and his torturous, X-rated version of Home Alone is complete, he’ll have a hell of a lot more to come to terms with in his head.
On that note, those who can withstand the gore will not be able to turn away once Last Blood embarks on its swashbuckling finale – which is, as far as I can see, the only reason for its conception. If you can swallow the absentminded butchering of insensitive Mexican archetypes, you’ll become a witness to the action icon’s evolution into a day-walking slasher killer. This is not the Guerilla warfare you may be used to, folks, these are over-effective death traps: decapitating shotgun shells, faux doors that break into whittled-spike racks, spear-fitting holes in the wall, the list goes on and on. Stallone catapults himself into the chaos with an apparent full-steam-ahead mentality, simultaneously proving that Rocky was capable of throwing a couple more punches in Creed and also why that reserved role is what earned him an Oscar nomination.
But between the split bones and compulsive carnage, a disjointed script, co-written by Stallone and Matthew Cirulnick, makes Rambo: Last Blood mindless and messy. With his right hand, Rambo tears at the embedded memories of ghastly violence in his brain, and with his left, he chops off the head of a gangster. There’s a serious mismatch at play here; neither concepts come close to being fulfilled, though both, by themselves, are inherently interesting.
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The Infinity Saga Trailer Teases A Thrilling Journey Through The MCU
While the MCU is essentially finished for the year – Spider-Man: Far From Home was the final movie from the franchise in 2019, there’s still much to look forward to. After all, Phase 4 kicks off in 2020 and promises to bring with it a whole slew of exciting films – and TV shows! – for fans to dig into.
But there’s still one burning question that everyone wants an answer to? When will we finally see a box set for the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Dubbed The Infinity Saga, the 23 MCU films released thus far are all available on Blu-ray but we’ve yet to see a complete box set that bundles them all together. Thankfully, though, that’ll soon change.
Teased over the summer, The Infinity Saga is Marvel’s answer to our prayers, with the studio set to deliver a new box set that includes every MCU movie released so far. When exactly it’ll hit store shelves, we still don’t know, but Kevin Feige and co. first revealed it at San Diego Comic-Con with a rather epic trailer and it’s now made its way online and is available above for your viewing pleasure.
The Infinity Saga, as you surely know, began in a cave with Tony Stark and spanned through multiple movies that took us on all kinds of exciting journeys, resulting in one of the most beloved and profitable film franchises of all-time. Unfortunately, the trailer above lacks a release date, but with Marvel now beginning to tease it a bit more, we imagine it won’t be too long before we find out when we can get our hands on it.
Until then, we can always look forward to Phase 4 getting underway on May 1st, 2020 with Black Widow, the first solo outing for ScarJo’s now-deceased hero. Following that, we’ll also see The Eternals next year, while Disney Plus will soon launch worldwide and bring with it a few MCU shows in 2020, like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Suffice it to say, there’s much to look forward to and we can only hope that the future of the franchise is as exciting and enjoyable as what we saw with The Infinity Saga.
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