Sometimes, as in Rambo, the personal vendetta stands for a political sentiment that is otherwise not socially acceptable to express publicly. Theaters full of cheering masses watching us finally win Vietnam, mythologically speaking. Hey liberal college brain, you gonna let us win this time? You gonna let us win? You gonna let us win? And so it goes, as nations write an acceptable version of their past.
Well, you know the series was begging for a sequel ...
And here it is ... Rambo V. (At least he had the sense to stop being the main action in the post-Rocky Creed movies.)
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/246286 ... last-bloodAccording to a Screen Daily report from back in May, the fifth film finds Rambo troubled with PTSD, living in a ranch in Arizona, picking up work where he can. When longtime family friend Maria (Adriana Barraza) tells Rambo her granddaughter has gone missing after heading into Mexico for a party, Rambo joins Maria to find the girl. The film reportedly includes John Rambo going up against a deadly Mexican cartel led by Hugo Martinez (Sergio Peris-Mencheta).
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Stallone is 72. He's going to be taking down that Mexican Cartel by running them over with his wheelchair and whacking them with his cane, I suppose.
At least they had the sense to realize at this point it made no sense to send him back to Vietnam, again. I mean, we're practically already allies, or at least frenemies.