Rambo: Last Blood - Movie Reviews (2024)

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

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | May 2, 2024

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

Full Review | 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.)

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: F | May 7, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2020

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jan 6, 2020

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

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

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

Full Review | 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.

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

A film made for those who still write letters and know how to appreciate the classic calligraphy of John Ford and the enraged twisted lines of all the solitary renegades of old Hollywood. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2019