God Bless Sylvester Stallone. For those of us still in denial over the encroaching years and the inexorable slog towards middle age, there can be nothing quite so heartening as the site of an overweight, aging action star, wheeling out characters from of his youth. He managed it with aplomb in Rocky Balboa and, from the look of the first trailer that’s now gone up over at Aintitcool.com, he’s going to score one for senior citizens on the front lines in John Rambo.
From ripping out someone’s throat to punching a man’s head clean off his shoulders (Coolest. Thing. Ever), this is Rambo as we knew and loved him, only this time he’s armed with love handles as well as exploding arrows. It’s also heartening to see that the perpetually pissed off vet’s swansong is very much in the tradition of his earlier escapades in terms of uncensored gore – there’ll be no 12 rating on this one, we can tell you.
Anyway, enough preamble, hop over to Aintitcool and check out this great trailer before it disappears.