@intothenightalone said:

I seriously believe he did this. He's made a bunch of direct to DVD movies in the past decade and by putting Rambo on it he's back on the big screen and cashing in.

The character was not John Rambo.

Rambo is a lone wolf. He doesn't live with old latina ladies and raise kids. He's quiet. So quiet you wonder if he's all there. In this movie he's a chatter box. He moves with tactical purpose. Here he enters the enemy's lair with no intel, no advantage, etc. And Rambo is inspirational and heroic. He doesn't inspire anybody to be heroic in this movie.

I kinda figured it was gonna be BS. How'd did you like the previous Rambo movie? The one that came out few years ago.

The last one I actually felt like it was John Rambo I was watching. He lives in Thailand, which makes sense, as his mind is still in the war and the surroundings are closer to Vietnam. He's quiet and reserved. When he finally does speak it's after establishing himself as a trained killer.

I thought he said when he made that that that was that (I think that's a record for using that multiple times in a sentence :) )

Apparently straight after that movie he moved to the border between mexico and USA and became part of the latino community. That doesn't sound right.

ITS NICE TO KNOW THAT 40 YEARS OF LIVING IS WORTH NOTHING...YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE NO MATTER WHAT,UNTIL YOU DIE.NO GROWING OR CHANGING OR HEALING...AT 74 YOU WILL BE THE SAME EXACT PERSON YOU WERE AT 30...

ITS NICE TO KNOW THAT 40 YEARS OF LIVING IS WORTH NOTHING...YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE NO MATTER WHAT,UNTIL YOU DIE.NO GROWING OR CHANGING OR HEALING...AT 74 YOU WILL BE THE SAME EXACT PERSON YOU WERE AT 30...

@VHS-VANDAL said:

ITS NICE TO KNOW THAT 40 YEARS OF LIVING IS WORTH NOTHING...YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE NO MATTER WHAT,UNTIL YOU DIE.NO GROWING OR CHANGING OR HEALING...AT 74 YOU WILL BE THE SAME EXACT PERSON YOU WERE AT 30...

Are you shouting at me?

Rambo is a text-book example of a character who doesn't change or grow, he is taught in script writing schools for how a character can just be himself and respond to the world around him.

So no, he shouldn't have changed and become a spanish speaking chatterbox who walks into enemy lairs with no advantage.

I have to agree with you intothenightalone it did feel a lot more like a "Taken" movie or just a generic action movie than a Rambo movie. I wish they had at least used the iconic Rambo theme music so it would at least have some connection to the name, but no.

I felt the movie could have been much better. The movie was missing a few Rambo-isms like his own personal brand of philosophy like "Live for nothing, die for something". Maybe he did say something cool, but Stallone was mumbling so often in this movie, it was hard to make out what he was saying sometimes. I'll have to have the captions on when I catch it on bluray.

He was talkative at the beginning of First Blood before finding out his friend died, I just took it that being back on the family farm and away from conflict brought him back to a state of normalcy.