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, hires 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 of $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.