Rambo lives on a ranch in Arizona. One day, Gabriele, the daughter of Rambo's maid, travels to a Mexican town to meet her absent father, but he rejects her. Gabriele is kidnapped by a prostitution cartel. Rambo goes to that town, rescues Gabriele, but she dies from a drug overdose by the cartel criminals. Rambo kills a few of the cartel members, and then flees back to his ranch in Arizona. Rambo sets up several traps in his underground tunnel and ambushes and kills dozens of cartel criminals who places his home under siege. Rambo kills Hugo, the criminal boss, by carving out his heart. A wounded Rambo sits on a bench.
The grand finish to the "Rambo" film series ended with a far from grand, unimpressive "Rambo V", a cheap and exploitative action revenge flick that was not worth the long wait. While Sylvester Stallone is still in a surprisingly fit and agile shape as the title hero, one wonders at what the point was to drag out the film series for 37 years. Even though it was only a solid film, "Rambo III" was still the last true Rambo film that ended the series nicely, and Stallone should have stopped at that. "Rambo V" is a banal film, to such an extent that everything in it is one-dimensional: the dialogues, the villains, even the lame plot points that lead to the obligatory finale. The cliches are too much, especially the old one "make the viewers hate the bad guys no matter how cheap", which includes the Mexican cartel kidnapping and torturing girls for their forced prostitution ring. There are some traces of Rambo-style in the finale where the hero sets up several traps for the villains in his underground tunnel, almost like "Home Alone" for grown ups, yet the movie ends up almost in a glorification of violence, losing any measure in bloody murders and mutilations of the criminals there. In the first three movies, murders had weight to them. In this movie, murders are a dime a dozen, and feel like a gore fest.
Grade:+
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