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Last BloodвЂ™s Mexican antagonists have led critics like Uproxx вЂ™s Vince Mancini to argue that вЂњTrump-era Rambo is essentially a human border wall keeping out Mexican rapists and murderers.вЂќ Rambo inevitably casts aside his pills like a Bizarro Popeye after Gabrielle (Yvette Montreal), the impressionable teenage grand-daughter of his Mexican family friend Maria (Adrianna Barazza), is kidnapped by Mexican human-traffickers/cartel members. In Last Blood, Rambo tries to вЂњkeep a lid onвЂќ some unspecified psychological disorder with medication (PTSD, presumably), and by building and maintaining an elaborate network of Survivalist-friendly tunnels under his ranch. But now heвЂ™s living on his familyвЂ™s Bowie, Arizona ranch decades after he hid from his past in Thailand. Over the years, Rambo has insisted that вЂњpeople donвЂ™t changeвЂќ and that he cannot just вЂњswitch offвЂќ his war-time training, as he said to Trautman in both First Blood: Parts II and III (and again in flashbacks in Rambo, from 2015).

Joe-esque cartoon spin-off-promoted with laughably inappropriate toys (most of which were officially licensed!), like this Uzi, this grenade, and this knife-and some more adult-oriented tchotchkes, like вЂњauthentically verifiedвЂќ bullet shells fired from guns used during the filming of Rambo III.

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With all these bodies and ghosts to his credit, one canвЂ™t help but wonder: how the hell has Rambo survived this long?ДЄs the character transformed over the span of the movies, toy companies also raised objections (a Hasbro spokesperson said, after their company lost the bid to license Rambo toys, that вЂњRambo is a character from an R-rated movieвЂќ) protest groups (Peggy Charren, president of Action for ChildrenвЂ™s Television: вЂњThe problem with Rambo as a doll is it's a doll for children, whereas the movie is not a children's movie, itвЂ™s a movie for adults.вЂќ) and censors (in England, the BBFC took issue with excessive blood вЂњspatterвЂќ and вЂњthe glamorisation of weaponsвЂќ).ДЇirst Blood: Part II still spawned three more live-action sequels, a G.I. Then, in Rambo (2008), the big man guns down and rips the throats out of bloodthirsty Burmese troops who have targeted a group of unarmed Christian missionaries (and also the converted Karen people) in Myanmar. In Rambo III (1988), StalloneвЂ™s fatigued antihero accepts a mission to rescue his sworn frenemy Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) from the Soviets in Afghanistan, and to also help the Mujahideen fighters win their independence. RamboвЂ™s post- First Blood journey has steadily led him down darker, more regressive by-ways since 1985: in First Blood: Part II, he humped back to Vietnam to rescue American soldiers that were still missing in action, and also to kill a few dozen more Viet Cong and Soviet baddies, too. 'I felt I was less a human being for having seen it, and today that's an unfortunate message.вЂќ вЂњInstead of being soulful, this new movie lacks one,' Morrell told Newsweek. RamboвЂ™s transformation from a sullen martyr to an avenging angel has even startled author David Morrell, who originated the Rambo character in the 1972 novel First Blood. In First Blood, Rambo was a symbol of post-war alienation in Last Blood, heвЂ™s looking for fights to pick, this time with the Mexican cartels. Still, itвЂ™s 2019, and a fourth sequel, Rambo: Last Blood, is now in theaters. He is offering so much more of what our national psyche craves.' But First Blood: Part II-which Stallone had greater creative control over, after rewriting James CameronвЂ™s original script-was dismissed by several critics as ahistorical propaganda: The New York TimesвЂ™s Vincent Canby said that the film was вЂњnot about the war as it was fought and as it came to an end 10 years ago, but as it has come to look to the macho mind of today.вЂќ Jay Kesler, writing for the Christian journal Transformation in 1987, paraphrased Luke 23:18 when he said that '.I fear the United States is on the verge of saying 'Give us Rambo!' We would rather have him than Jesus Christ. Before that, First Blood was (and mostly still is) fairly well-regarded as a psychodrama about John Rambo (Stallone), a traumatized Vietnam vet who feels ostracized after returning to America. First Blood: Part IIвЂ™s $150 million over almost three months). At the time, the multi-hyphenate action star was riding high on the success of First Blood: Part II, just months before Rocky IVвЂ™s almost-as-impressive holiday release ($85 million over a month vs. вЂњRambo is a war machine that canвЂ™t be turned off,вЂќ Sylvester Stallone told TimeвЂ™s Richard Zoglin in 1985.