Rambo 5 is a Go

Posted on August 31, 2009
Filed Under Actors, News, Sequel

Well go figure – John Rambo wants to take a final dance with the audience. One side of my brain says “Stay down John! Stay the **** down!” but the other side says “Hey cool! There’s something special about Rambo flicks!” Sure, “Rambo” (2008) was actually a rather entertaining film. Although I was a bit surprised by the graphic, rough violence that at first threw me a bit, but at the same time added to the realism of the movie. Still, Sylvester Stallone looks a bit too old to play a mercenary, and that’s the part I’m struggling with. Now, with a fifth installment I hope they try to weave that in to the story, the age factor I mean. Rambo can’t be the same killing machine as he was 20 years ago.

Anyway, Variety reports that Rambo is now officially ready for a fifth mission. Well, fifth film anyway. I hope they don’t just throw him out in some jungle again… Nu Image/Millennium Films has greenlit the franchise’s fifth installment, with Sylvester Stallone starring and directing, repeating his duties from 2008′s “Rambo.” (If you want the job done right you have to do it all by yourself…)

The upcoming project’s storyline revolves around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border. Production will start in the spring.

That’s all fine but wouldn’t be nice if they made a film more about John Rambo “trying to retire,”  trying to adjust to a normal life? Maybe it’s just me, but I’m just starving for some realism, a “back to the roots story” where we get to see some of that fine acting we saw in “First Blood” (1982).

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