A few pictures from the fourth Rambo flick have been released, but Sylvester Stallone is finally getting out there and pressing a bit of long-lead flesh for the film… well, still without saying much. At the Las Vegas premiere of Resident Evil: Extinction, Stallone talked, in this short video clip, about (what is ostensibly) the final installment of the franchise, saying, “It’s a lot more realistic and hardcore than the last one,” before adding, “He’s in a grumpy mood and going to let it all out.” Probably not in a break-through therapy session, one imagines…

Sure this smacks of going to the well one time… well, several times too many, but Stallone, against long odds, pulled off a marvelous feat with Rocky Balboa; he showed that he really grasped the base appeal of the character, and went back to his roots in an interesting way. While there’s a bit less to work with in John Rambo, and the whole action pitfall trap of trying to make sure a suitable explosions quotient is met, some budgetary constraint might actually result in a halfway thought-provoking revisitation of the character. Certainly this is generally preferable to other career twilights for Stallone, be it continued straight-to-video teamings with Renny Harlin, entering politics or ending up the glad-handing celebrity judge on some reality show.