Sylvester Stallone He is one of the great legends of Hollywood, an actor who has spent more than five decades starring in some of the most legendary sagas of the film industry, such as ‘Rocky’ or ‘Rambo’, in addition to many of the most iconic action films. from the 80s and 90s. Although sly He has his favorite film from his own filmography, the fourth installment of one of his most celebrated sagas. And it is none other than ‘John Rambo‘, also one of the most controversies of his career. This was recognized by the actor in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which he reviews his career.
Sly chooses ‘John Rambo’ as his favorite
So, Sylvester Stallone He confesses that the favorite film he has made is a sequel to one of his fetish sagas and that it served to recover a character that he had not played for two decades: John Rambo. Character, furthermore, of which he feels very proud and that he would even recover once again with the closing ‘Rambo V: Last Blood‘.
“A film of the that I am very proud -is the best action movie I’ve ever done because it is the most authentic- it is ‘John Rambo‘, which deals with Burma, where there has been a civil war for 67 years. But they criticized me because the film It is very violent. And she is violent. It is awful. Children burned alive. That’s what makes civil war worse than anything: it’s your neighbor suddenly killing you. He was very happy with that movie, and I never thought it would make it to the movies. I thought, ‘They’re never going to screen this,’” Stallone explains proudly.
‘John Rambo‘ was released in theaters in 2008 to a rather cold reception from critics, shortly after the release of ‘Rocky Balboa‘, the sixth and final installment of the boxer’s saga that would give rise, years later, to the spin-off ‘creed‘, in which sly would appear in the first two installments as a mentor to Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), son of former world champion and friend of Rocky Balboa Apollo Creed.
Back to ‘John Rambo‘, the favorite of slyraised a not inconsiderable amount of 113 million dollars for a budget of almost 50 million, which aroused the public’s interest, something that would not happen years later with the last installment of the saga, ‘Rambo: Last Blood‘, which would put an end to Rambo’s adventures in the cinema.
