This just has “Bad Idea” written all over it in several different languages. As we’ve mentioned before, it seems the big ol’ Rambo gun is being loaded up again because apparently Stallone has nothing better to do.
I loved the first Rambo film (First Blood). But the sequels got progressively worse and deviated tremendously from the spirit of First Blood. Going back for another kick at the proverbial can looks ill advised at best, and down right desperate at worst. And just to make this bad idea look even more pathetic, Hollywood North Report offers up this treatment of the project:
Rambo IV: Holy War, as it’s called, sees Stallone’s iconic super-soldier return to the screen as the matured sage; he’s married, with an adopted son, influenced by Islamic Sufism, and now working as an environmentalist at the United Nations. When the UN Assembly is hijacked by sadistic Islamist terrorists, Rambo tries to take the terrorists down, knowing that his Afghani-adopted son, Tomask, is part of the terrorist mission.
Ouch. This has “Sappy stereo types” and “overdone plot devices” tattooed on it’s arm. This movie will be made… and it will suck… and Sylvester Stallone will waste more of his true acting talent (see Copland) on stupid material yet again. What a shame.
