Tag: Sylvester Stallone

Rambo: Last Blood ignores the character's origins for something vengeful and outrageously violent to close John Rambo's legacy.

A fun trip through the world of high stakes gambling con men, Shade finds enough tension between bouts of early '00s filmmaking.

The Boat Man In one of Rambo’s earliest scenes, religious missionaries approach John Rambo, asking to be taken into genocidal Burma. Rambo stares at them through cages, tossing helpless …

Men and Their Kids Creed II isn’t ready to surprise anyone with its familiar slew of montages, pumped up music, and haymaker punches. It’s Rocky. As this series continues …

Creed’s Screed It’s difficult to imagine a Rocky reset keeping the legacy together better than Creed. As with the best films in this series, Creed doesn’t rely on only …

Hanging In There Blending the ‘90s extreme sports fascination and distrust of government institutions, Cliffhanger is a masterwork of an action movie idea. It’s scenic, with enormous pans of …

Your Worst Nightmare First Blood ran credits to Dan Hill’s melancholic “It’s a Long Road,” a tribute to Vietnam veterans who felt distanced when they returned home. By the …

“Do we get to win this time?” There is a sliver of fact behind the asinine First Blood Part II. There were Vietnam prisoners still captive in 1985. There …

Rocky IV’s memorable scene is that of James Brown, surrounded by Americana, introducing Apollo Creed on his march to fight the USSR’s Ivan Drago to the pop tune “Living …

Firestrike The small American town of First Blood makes a critical mistake: insulating itself from the realities of Vietnam. Veteran John Rambo crosses the town border, but is forced …

Please Let Viewers Escape Escape Plan 2 comes from a mix of Chinese/American production companies and 33 (!) co-producers, also a mix of Chinese and Americans. The cast too, …

Clanking Clunker Rudimentary and thin, Ratchet & Clank better fits on Saturday mornings. Passe character development leaves this adaptation of Sony’s PlayStation videogame series limited in appeal. And, in …