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I got thinking about this the other morning over my coffee. There is definitely room for another Rambo story. Rambo is the ultimate badass. And this story should be the tale of "you just f'd with the wrong family." A macho story structure we've seen many times over the years, made very popular with Charles Brosnan and shown recently to still have the right stuff with Taken and like films. Perhaps best done by Unforgiven as Eastwood's grizzled old gunslinger is dragged back into a fight he left behind. That is a story that can and probably should be told with Rambo. I just hope they show that Rambo did have a good ten years of peace and family before getting dragged back into the fire and deaded. I don't think this film is needed, but despite the great closing shot Rambo 4, the story itself of that film doesn't give proper closure to Rambo's character. Not in personal journey or in satisfying fireworks and feels. (I mean it was just carnage, there was no gravitas, and maybe a couple "I told you so's" got thrown around. That's no pathos!) Maybe i've talked myself into it, but i'm actually looking forward to one more run with the character.

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Screw you pal....IT IS INDEED NEEDED....

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No, it's not. What else is needed? Rambo came full circle at the end of part 4 which was the whole point of the franchise and Rambo's narrative.....it's done. He's finally at peace. Anything else is just flogging a dead horse and that's the very problem with Hollywood and these older long running franchises nowadays...… they don't know when to quit! Nothing lasts forever PAL.

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Bs....we saw him walking to his father's house. Full circle is we see him back in civilian life in the US. Now we get to. Plus we see him fight a cartel. Don't watch it, if it bothers you so much....

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Why so butthurt lol? It's just a movie dude. No, full circle is him realizing that he is a soldier and a killing machine which will never change, has to accept who he really is in order to have peace with himself and with others around him(which he did at the end of 4, that's why he came back to the ranch.....he's excepted himself, his inner turmoil is over and he can live again).....you don't understand his character arc at all. Rambo was at war with himself and haunted by memories of Vietnam. Watch the quadrilogy again and pay close attention to 3 and 4, you'll see what I mean. Civilian life is part of it but not the main reason, he has to make peace with himself in order to come back to society. Why do we need to see it? We get it already. Part 4 pretty much summed it all up at the end, no need for a part 5. Going after a cartel is cool and I never said I wouldn't watch it but it's still unnecessary IMO. It needs to end sometime. Chill out, it's nothin' personal.

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