Ramon Rambo, as shown by actor Sylvester Stallone, is controversial character. When it first appeared in "First Blood" in 1982, the adaptation of David Morel's novel in 1972 of the same name, the character was quite close to how it appeared in the book: Veteran of the Vietnam War, which suffered from post -traumatic stress disorder, which was mistreated by its fellow citizens. All this changed with "Rambo: First Blood II" in 1985, a film in which Rambo, through the act of deploying in Vietnam to save military prisoners, will symbolically win the war that America has lost. From there, the rest of the franchise saw Rambo be called to the help of other susceptible persons involved in impossible or hard patterns of conflicts around the world, turning it into a kind of morally motivated mercenary. While the image eventually stopped resembling the bitter, broken soldier of Morel's book because it became stronger and traditionally heroic, he was still a warning story of the war.

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Bizarre, "Rambo: Last Blood" in 2019 (the latest and, to date, A final movie in the series) barely has nothing to do with war or its repercussions in general. Instead of Johnon finding himself in the midst of a new conflict between the forces they are, he is on the bad side of the Mexican cartel after kidnapping his young daughter to his friend. More than any previous installment, "the last blood" makes Rambo feel incidental, and almost as it is different. Perhaps this was Stallone's attempt to turn the character into new directions and move him away from the military theme, but it is incredibly unpleasant (not to mention unfortunately xenophobic) effort.

Fortunately, Stallone is best and redeemed with the same movie. "Working Man", the latest by director David Ayer, Starswells Jason Statam as Levon Cade, a former Royal Marine, who is attracted to a conflict with the Russian mafia when a friend of his young daughter is abducted. "Working Man" It is essentially "the last blood" done properly, and it is appropriate that Stallone-who produced the film and co-wrote the script-it was an integral part of it.

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A big problem that "Rambo: Last Blood" suffers is the fact that it feels like Johnon Rambo accidentally stepped into the wrong movie. Although this idea could work if it were intentional, "the last blood" is not really a story of water from water. Instead, it feels like Stallone trying to see how the character will work in a different environment, using his military experiences as a set of skills that can be applied to try to save an innocent girl from the cartel. Unfortunately, it is a strange fit, especially as the fifth (and supposedly final) franchise film. It seems that the final film "Johnon Wick" made Vick hire a team of super spies on a mission to save the world; There is a little overlap of the tone and the genre, but it is too difficult to work naturally.

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This is not the case with a "working man" and Levon Cade. Of course, one great help is the fact that the film is the first film in the franchise (hope for), so there are no previous installments to adjust or judge. But even leaving it aside, the film represents Cade in a way that allows the character and the story to work in harmony with each other. For wit: When Cade's friends find out that their daughter has been kidnapped and sold in human beings, Cade is forced to help them not only because they are his friends and his employers, but also because he is struggling to keep his daughter, Mary (Isla), protected and cared. At a crucial moment in the movie, Cade even causes one of the traffickers to try and understand how monstrous trafficking is and realizes that the gangster cannot understand it because they do not have their own daughter.

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In other words, "Working Man" is Levon Cade's film, while "Rambo: Last Blood" is a film that is going to have Johnon Rambo in him.

It would be easier to defend "Rambo: Last Blood" if or fit more actively in the franchise and the character "Rambo", or if it was simply an action movie. Instead, Stallone, co-writer Matthew Zirunik and director Adrian Grenberg make the film a relentless affair to reduce the weakness. The directors may have tried to bring Johnon Rambo to his melancholic, pessimistic "first blood" roots, but made a film that feels too uncomfortable as an xenophobic tract. He certainly has his moments - the killings are cruel brutal, building on the ultravioles of the series that previously climbed "Rambo" in 2008 - but, as I said, it would have worked better or if Rambo's character was not included, or if the film was not so glued to orange. Even "Cobra" since 1986, in 1986, Action Film with Stalloni and Acting ShareIt was more unusual and fun than the "last blood".

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"A working man" sees Stallone and Ayer corrects this problem, and then some. To be sure, the film does not carry the subject of trafficking in human beings, and the plight of the kidnapped girl, Enen (Ariana Rivas), is appropriately frightening. However, it is not even sensationalized. The same cannot be said about the victim of the cartel, Gabriella (Ivet Montreal), in "Last Blood", which is forced to drug addiction before dying of overdose. "Working Man" has its own thematic cake problems and also eats it, showing how the Russian criminal underground in the film has sparkles everywhere (even in the police department) while the gangsters themselves look likely, pathetically human instead of turning them into propaganda cartoons.

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Most of all, "working man" never loses the fact that, despite the themes available, the film can still have a sense of fun and excitement. Retaining these qualities is the most comfortable way to go, because it makes Levon descend into the folk hero of the blue collar, who Stallone demanded to turn Rambo. So, while the "last blood" continues to hang tricky at the end of the series "Rambo" (unless Stallone decides to give the franchise another last walk), the "working man" functions as a potential start of a new series, as well as further confirmation Ayer's duo and Stetam is the winning. The happiest, the film is a justification for Stallone as a writer, proof that his story could work well ultimately.