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As a Sylvester Stallone “Rocky” wrote as a way to start his career, he infused his script with a lot of heart and character development and revealed himself as a talented writer with sensitivity, for which fans of his action filography do not always give him recognition. That means there is no doubt that the man has a talent for bombastic actions. The “First Blood” from 1982, in which his John J. Rambo debut, was all the better to have stallone in the leading role, with the star made changes to the script by removing a large part of the macho posture in favor of a more recurrent approach. Stallone added, which became the script for the defined feature of “First Blood”, and since then he has created committed action stories.

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Over the years, however, Stallone often asked for a formulaic approach. The retired badass with the attitude “I no longer do this” there is partly due to stallones films, and in the 2000s he bowed to this persona. It worked with “Rambo” from 2008, but was stale by publishing his flop “Rambo: Last Blood”, who culminated in a grown John Rambo, who defended his home against an attack by bad guys.

This was not the first time that Stallone had provided us with an action heroine “Home Alone” sequence. Between “Rambo” and “Last Blood” he wrote “Homefront” from 2013, in which his employee of “Expendables” Jason Statham Phil Broker plays, a former Dea agent who, after a botched job in which his actions led to the death of his boss, moves to a calm small city. The widowed ex-engagement officer will leave his previous life behind for his nine-year-old daughter Maddy (Izabela Vidovic), but he soon finds that her new city is not quite as quiet as it seemed. After Maddy got into a fight with a school harasser, things escalate so far that the broker is in a conflict with the local drug lord Gator Bodine (James Franco). In true stallone fashion, broker is forced to hug the life he had left behind to defend his family, which means that they essentially have to blow a few bad guys into hell when they try to penetrate his house. Apparently Prime video subscribers cannot get enough of this proven action formula, since “Homefront” now divides the streamer.

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“Homefront” hit cinemas in November 2013 and earned $ 51.6 million compared to a budget of $ 22 million. The film directed by Gary Fleder was a modest success and was certainly not the worst in which Stallone was ever involved (this unfortunate honor could go to one of several terrible video games based on Stallone projects). Now “Homefront” is back for streaming age, and again it is pretty good.

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According to Flixpatrol, a location that has increased the audience on the various platforms streaming, “Homefront” has increased throughout the main video charts in the USA all week. The film debut in number seven on May 11, 2025 and has won ground since then. On May 13th it took number six before rising the next day. From Friday, “Homefront” will now be released in the USA and will probably take first place in the coming days. The film also maps in Canada, where it is free of charge at the time of writing.

This is not enough to preserve “homefront” worldwide, as it currently only ranks in these two North American countries. In the overall map for the USA, which takes into account both films and series, “Homefront” is number three directly behind “Reacher”. If first-class video subscribers Jason Stathams Actioner continue to stream, we could even see that he plunges Alan Ritchson's former military police officer. This would be a good performance if you consider that season 3 of “Reacher” broke a huge prime video record and has proven to be one of the most popular releases in the streamer.

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Sylvester Stallone has become a productive writer since his 90-page script for “Rocky” in the mid-1970s. His writing posts were not always as outstanding as the first “Rocky” film – just watch “Rocky V”, which almost killed the franchise and that Sly itself was terrible (although there are those who argue Stallone, is wrong and “Rocky V” is good). But if at all, his sheer edition is impressive.

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“Homefront” is not exactly the most impressive writing effort, but it is not his little either. It is an actioner of Paint-by-Number in the sense that an action star plays a man with the talent for beating people who want to be left alone. But there is enough in “Homefront” to prevent it from becoming a mistake that “Rocky: Last Blood” emphasized when James Franco, who clearly has a ball that plays drug lord Morgan “Gator” bodine, to Jason Statham himself, who has never missed a step when it comes to action choreography.

The film has 42% for rotting tomatoes, which is not the best advertising. But if you consider that we have seen much worse, including the time “Time Stallone” and “Samaritan” and his 38% RT points that have exceeded the Tubi charts, they could make much worse than giving “front front” po-go.

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