Before Tint can execute them, Rambo launches a surprise attack with a jeep mounted machine gun and starts slaughtering Tint's men, allowing the mercenaries to escape and engage them. Tint's forces capture everyone except Rambo, Sarah, and School Boy, the mercenaries' sniper. Rambo lures a section of the army towards a dormant Tallboy bomb, setting it off with a timed claymore. The next morning, Tint and his soldiers pursue them. Rambo joins the mercenaries and they make their way to Tint's camp at night, where they stealthily rescue the surviving hostages. Rambo arrives in time and kills the soldiers with his bow and arrow, freeing the hostages. As they survey the damage, a squad of Tint's soldiers arrive in a truck with a group of prisoners, whom they proceed to torment. Myint, a Karen rebel familiar with the area, leads the mercenaries to the site of the massacre. Rambo takes the mercenary to the drop-off point and offers to help, but Lewis, a former SAS soldier and the team's leader, refuses. The pastor of the missionaries' church comes to Thailand and asks Rambo to guide a team of five mercenaries on a rescue mission. Sarah, Michael, and other survivors are taken prisoners. The missionaries arrive at the village but are attacked by Tint's forces. Rambo initially refuses, then agrees when convinced by Michael's fiancée Sarah Miller.ĭuring the trip, the boat is stopped by pirates demanding Sarah in exchange for passage, forcing Rambo to kill them. Michael Burnett, a missionary doctor, attempts to hire Rambo to ferry his group up the Salween River into Burma on a humanitarian mission to provide medical aid to a village inhabited by the Karen people. Meanwhile, 20 years after the events in Afghanistan, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo is still living in Thailand, making a living as a snake catcher and by providing boat rides. His soldiers sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teenage boys to be drafted into his army and hold women hostage to be raped as sex slaves. The film was followed by Rambo: Last Blood, released on September 20, 2019.Īmid the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads Burmese junta army forces in pillaging small villages in a campaign of fear. It grossed $113.2 million worldwide against a production budget between $47.5–50 million. Rambo was theatrically released on January 25, 2008, to mixed reviews, with praise and criticism aimed at the film's violence, direction, plot, characters, and political commentary. Filming began in Thailand, Mexico, and the United States in January 2007, and ended in May 2007. The rights were then sold to Nu Image and Millennium Films in 2005, who green-lit the film before the release of Rocky Balboa. Miramax intended to produce a fourth film but Stallone was unmotivated to reprise the role. The rights to the Rambo franchise were sold to Miramax Films in 1997 after Carolco Pictures went bankrupt. In the film, Rambo (reprised by Stallone) leads a group of mercenaries into Burma to rescue Christian missionaries, who have been kidnapped by a local infantry unit.
The film is dedicated to the memory of Richard Crenna, who died in 2003 he had played Colonel Sam Trautman in the previous films. A sequel to Rambo III (1988), it is the fourth installment in the Rambo franchise and co-stars Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake La Botz, Maung Maung Khin, and Ken Howard.
Rambo is a 2008 American action film directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, based on the character John Rambo created by author David Morrell for his novel First Blood.