Racist in addition to being offensive in its sadism.

| Oct 3, 2019

...the violence does become too extreme towards the end, and also too predictable, so much so that I knocked it down a peg. I still walked out with nothing but respect for Stallone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2019

As a fan of the series, I wished for a stronger sendoff with a lot less comic book splatter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2019

It's just kind of mediocre.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 27, 2019

At just under an hour and a half, [Rambo: Last Blood] still feels padded with pointless moments that do little to advance an already obvious outcome.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Last Blood is a swing into straight exploitation-movie territory, from its one-act structure to its urban slaughter with blades and hammers to its scuzzy sex-trafficking scenario, plus some wildly homoerotic wounding.

| Sep 23, 2019

Come the apocalypse, Rambo will almost certainly still be spilling blood. "The war inside never ends!" And neither does this bloody franchise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2019

It's cheap and lazy stuff.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2019

[It] is less an escapist action movie and more a dramatized manifestation of the most notorious sentences from Donald Trump's presidential campaign announcement speech.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 21, 2019

He has destroyed an entire battalion of Vietnamese troops, he defeated the Russians in Afghanistan and he decimated the Burmese military machine. Now the iconic super-soldier John Rambo faces his greatest enemy yet: audience apathy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2019

Rambo has always been a monster, but in his old age, he has become something even worse: no fun.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 20, 2019

I don't know why I had high hopes for Rambo: Last Blood.

| Sep 20, 2019

The latest chapter feels like a bad "Rocky" sequel has infected a good "Rambo" movie. And along the way, the makers of "Last Blood" lose track of the thing that draws us to the character.

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

This sloppily conceived and muddily rendered Rambo picture does not merely insult any audience member unfortunate enough to see it; it does something far worse. It insults Rambo.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 20, 2019

Stallone may not be the best custodian of his own legacy. Graying, splotchy and barely intelligible, he turns in a self-negating performance, just as ugly on the inside.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2019

You might not think an 89-minute movie could drag, but boy does this one.

| Sep 19, 2019

[A] surprisingly brooding examination of a warrior in winter, a dark story of a berserker who can't let go, that's in its own way bleaker and more despairing than we may be expecting.

| Sep 19, 2019

Everything about "Last Blood" so perfunctory, it makes the film something to be slogged through, rather than enjoyed.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 19, 2019

The Looney Tunes nature of Rambo's murder spree tempers much of the script's ideological offense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2019

Director Adrian Grunberg goes for an almost horror-flick level of gore: blasted-off faces, bisected bodies, trisected skulls, you name it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2019