Trashing Rambo = trashing Trump

Rambo: Last blood is getting trashed by critics. Reviewers say Rambo may have run its course, criticizing the latest movie for controversial political themes. As a matter of fact, Sylvester Stallone - lead actor, writer and producer of Last Blood - is blamed for painting Mexico in a bad light. Hence, for supporting President Trump. Absurd as this may seem, that's how mainstream media journalists work. Obsessed with Trump, they are more than willing to trash not only him, but every single human being who dare to not hate Trump.

Here are some excerpts.


The Guardian: "Stallone storms Mexico in a laughable Trumpian fantasy. This massively enlarged prostate of a film can only make you wince with its badly acted geronto-ultraviolence, its Trumpian fantasies of Mexican rapists and hilariously insecure US border".


IGN: "The filmmakers have made Mexico seem like an infinite wasteland of crime and death, and most of the Latin characters on screen are criminals or broad stereotypes. I understand that Rambo films have rarely been bastions of cultural togetherness, but in 2019, these broad stereotypes are offensive and dated and downright irresponsible".


Rolling Stone: "'Last Blood‘s basic takeaway — that heroes wear white hats and bad guys have brown skin — will be trumpeted throughout the whole bloody affair, from beginning to things-go-boom end. This is apparently what a Rambo movie circa 2019 now means. The man-vs.-cartel action you crave will be smothered in irresponsible fearmongering. The taste of toxicity will overwhelm whatever pulpy grindhouse pleasures you might have experienced. A franchise that started off with a sense of betrayal and righteous anti-authoritarian anger ends by parroting authoritarian talking points that betray what this country is about. Let this please be the last of its kind."


Slate: "Last Blood Is Part MAGA Fantasy, Part Saw Movie. The new movie completes John Rambo’s transformation into a Trumpian hero. Enjoying it is our department, as we watch one brown-skinned bad guy after another get blown up and dismembered and tortured, but the movie can’t even bring itself to savor the spectacle. Last Blood is clearly an attempt to cash in on Trump-era fears of immigrant invasion—as the Mexican traffickers gather themselves for their assault on Rambo’s home, there’s a pointed shot of the border fence—but its climactic American carnage is a joyless grind".