Sylvester Stallone delivering his most phoned in performance in years doesn’t make this butchering any easier.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2024

It doesn’t serve as a sufficient farewell for such an iconic American action hero.

| Original Score: D+ | May 2, 2024

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

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

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.)

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2022

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

| Original Score: F | May 7, 2021

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2021

It's definitely not intelligent, but the catastrophic machismo is mind-numbingly action-packed.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Nothing is over? Perhaps it should be, John J.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 28, 2020

Even the racism is difficult to get too angry about because the film executes it with such a lack of awareness that it feels like a blundering pratfall.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 16, 2020

After years of ridiculous sequels, Last Blood proves that Rambo has been reduced to Hollywood cannon fodder. More than disappointing, it is outright dreadful.

| Original Score: 1 / 5 | Jul 28, 2020

"Last Blood" doesn't breathe new life into the series. Instead, it cheapens a once beloved character by forcing its aging action star to deliver some of the most gruesome violence ever put on screen.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 24, 2020

Rambo: Last Blood is a brutal way to say goodbye to an iconic action hero, covering topics and containing scenes that are almost difficult to stomach.

| Jun 27, 2020

The film's greatest sin: taking its trusting audience for granted. For a populist filmmaker like Stallone, this is a grave mistake.

| Jun 17, 2020

Stallone brings a suitably world-weary performance to his iconic title character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2020

It's grim. It looks cheap. It's pretty much racist. It ends with slo-mo highlights from old Rambos. It's no fun whatsoever. It's as enjoyable as a trip to the dentist in a horror movie.

| Apr 10, 2020

John Rambo is as American as apple pie. Actually, maybe that's too sweet a comparison. John Rambo is as American as a border wall. Yeah, that feels right.

| Apr 4, 2020

The movie isn't as much fun as I was hoping for -- it's downbeat and hopeless in tone, like an action-movie King Lear without the poetry. Stallone's performance feels halfhearted; it doesn't have the exuberance of which he's capable.

| Jan 6, 2020

Sylvester Stallone's 'other' iconic character makes a final bow in this frustrating finale.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 22, 2019

Stallone once again plays Rambo as stoic and introverted but also still physically and mentally sharp.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 20, 2019

"Rambo: Last Blood" has the earnestness of a eulogy, and it lands like the most inappropriately hilarious roast.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 20, 2019