8 Movies Loved By Their Viewers But Hated By Their Critics
4. Rambo: Last Blood
Tomatometer - 26% : Audience Score - 82%
I want to start this entry by asking all movie watchers to do one small thing going forward - can we stop comparing sequels, remakes and adaptations to their first/original concept? Ghostbusters was fun, but holding it up against the 2016 remake, and we'll no doubt compare it to next year's Afterlife movie too, is just getting depressing.
Why is it depressing? Because it's exactly what critics were going with for Rambo: Last Blood. Holding the 2019 film up against the original First Blood movie was always going to happen, but comparing how different they are is a fruitless endeavour. The first Rambo film was about America's treatment of Vietnam veterans, and how PTSD manifests. Sly Stallone's last film is more about flexing horror and violent muscles - which it admittedly does extremely well.
Speaking of the extreme violence in Rambo: Last Blood - while critics were quick to shield their eyes, it was exactly what audiences were looking for when they bought their tickets. The 2008 film was adored by audiences (with a similar scoring ratio to Last Blood), and the admiration certainly didn't leave a decade later.