Sylvester Stallone may have ended the Rocky series, but Rambo is still going strong. After last year's effortlessly gory Rambo, which rebooted the aging star's action series, Stallone will once again be donning the role with the fifth film in the series, tentatively titled Rambo V: The Savage Hunt. The film is quite a lot different than previous installments. Stallone has made it clear that the film will not be a war movie at all. Instead, like First Blood, Savage Hunt will take place on U.S. soil. And here's the funny thing -- it's got a bit of a sci-fi plot going on. Here's what AICN described the plot as:
John Rambo will be returning to the Pacific Northwest, back to his roots, if you will. There we'll be seeing Rambo on the hunt, the one doing the chasing rather than the one being chased. The film will center around a US Military installation that's experimenting on its soldiers, attempting to "tap into [the] savagery that we have deeply embedded [inside] us." Basically, these elite soldiers are to become purely instinctual killing machines without a shred of regret, with nary a single qualm about taking a human life. Who would guess that this experimental program turns out to work exceptionally well? And then backfires terribly. That's when Rambo, as part of a Black Ops squad, is brought in to hunt down this unfeeling, moral-less killer.
Do you like that Rambo's getting mixed up a little? I sure do -- it's great to see a series like this not just repeat the same formula, but mix it up a little bit. I'm all for it.
