- In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.
- Vietnam veteran John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand, where he spends his time capturing snakes for local entertainers, and chauffeuring locals in his old PT boat. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him: a group of Christian human rights missionaries, led by Michael Burnett and Sarah Miller, approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma. For over fifty years, Burma has been a war zone. The Karen people of the region, who consist of peasants and farmers, have endured brutally oppressive rule from the murderous Burmese military and have been struggling for survival every single day. After some inner contemplation, Rambo accepts the offer and takes Michael, Sarah, and the rest of the missionaries up the river. When the missionaries finally arrive at the Karen village, they find themselves part of a raid by the sadistic Major Pa Tee Tint and a slew of Burmese army men. A portion of the villagers and missionaries are tortured and viciously murdered, while Tint and his men hold the remainder captive. Concerned by their disappearance, the minister in charge of the mission gathers a group of mercenaries and pleas Rambo transport them with his boat, since he knows their last exact location. But Rambo can't stay behind: he joins the team where he belongs, to liberate the survivors from the clutches of Major Tint in what may be one of his deadliest missions ever—stallonezone.com / Drew Lahat
- In this latest Rambo installment, John Rambo has retreated to a simple life in a rural Thai village near the Burmese border, capturing snakes for local entertainers, and transporting roamers in his old PT boat. Following repeated pleas, Rambo helps ferry a group of Christian aid workers into war-torn Burma, where the local Karen villagers are regularly tortured and massacred by Major Tint's sadistic soldiers. The humanitarian mission is going well, until the village is attacked and the missionaries are kidnapped, and Rambo is once again asked to transport - but this time a group of mercenaries, assembled by the missionaries' minister on a deadly rescue mission. This time he doesn't stay behind.—Drew Lahat
- In Thailand, John Rambo is living peacefully capturing snakes and transporting people and cargo in an old boat. When a group of Christian missionaries asks to be transported to the war zone in Burma to help the locals, the reluctant Rambo only accepts when Sarah Miller presents her point of view about their humanitarian mission. Rambo leaves the group in the requested location, but the village where they are working is attacked by the sadistic army of Major Pa Tee Tint, the locals are slaughtered and the missionaries are abducted. Later a member of their church meets Rambo and asks him to transport a group of mercenaries hired to rescue the missionaries.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- In Thailand, John Rambo is living peacefully capturing snakes and transporting people and cargo in an old boat. But when he joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller, to take them up there. When the aid workers are captured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them.—Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
- Amid the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint (Maung Maung Khin) leads Burmese junta army forces to pillage small villages (of the Karen ethnic community) in a campaign of fear. His soldiers sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teenage boys to be drafted into his army and hold women hostage to be assaulted as sex slaves. Tint threatens the villagers that he would burn their villages and massacre their population if they resist him or take any help from the armed rebels.
Tint is not opposed to using chemical weapons to keep the ethnic community under control with fear. Buddhist monks take out marches protesting the genocide, but the protests are disrupted and all foreign journalists in the country are killed or deported by force. There are more landmines in Burma than anywhere else in the world. The Burmese army's campaign against the Karen people has been going on 60 years, the longest running conflict in the world.
Meanwhile, 20 years after the events in Afghanistan, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is still living in Thailand, making a meager living as a snake catcher and by providing boat rides. The captured snakes are delivered to a local hospital to milk them to create anti-venom medication. Rambo also hunts for fish using his specialized bow and donates that to the local monks for their sustenance.
A missionary doctor from Colorado named Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) hires Rambo to use his boat to ferry their group up the Salween River into Burma on a humanitarian mission to provide medical aid to a village inhabited by the Karen people. Michael says that people call Burma a war zone, but it is more like genocide of a specific ethnic community. Michael argues that he has been there 5 times before.
Rambo initially refuses, then agrees when requested by Michael's fiance Sarah Miller (Julie Benz). Sarah says that all lives are special and reveals that her group is a group of volunteers from a church in Colorado who want to get desperately needed aid for the Karen Christian community. Rambo says that war changes nothing and refuses to get involved. Sarah convinces Rambo by saying that he must care about something in life. Rambo agrees to take them without taking any of their money. Rambo says that he is from Arizona and left the US when he was drafted in the Vietnam war.
During the trip, the boat is stopped by pirates demanding Sarah in exchange for passage, forcing Rambo to kill them. Rambo wants to turn back, but Sarah argues that they are very close to their target village and people there are getting killed and sexually assaulted every day. She says that she is responsible for what happens to her and asks Rambo to continue.
Greatly disturbed by Rambo's actions, Michael sends him back upon arriving at their destination, claiming his group no longer wants his help. Michael says that the group will take the overland route on their way back and says that he would report Rambo's actions to the authorities in Thailand. Sarah gives Rambo a cross and leaves without saying anything. In the village, the missionaries provide aid to those attacked by Tint's soldiers. But the army strikes, the villagers are massacred, and the missionaries are abducted. The villagers who manage to run away are mowed down by a jeep mounted machine gun. The missionaries are taken to the army base, where Sarah is put into a pig pen, chained at the neck and at constant threat of sexual assault.
On his way back, Rambo destroys the pirate boat by setting fire to it but eventually gets back to his village in Thailand.
The pastor of the missionaries' church Father Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) comes to Thailand and asks Rambo to guide a team of five foreign mercenaries on a rescue mission. Arthur says that the missionaries were supposed to return 10 days ago and there is no word from them. Rambo takes the mercenary team to the drop-off point and offers to help, but Lewis (Graham McTavish), a former SAS soldier and the team's leader, refuses. Lewis believes that Rambo is afraid of the action and would be a liability in the field.
Myint (Supakorn Kitsuwon), a Karen rebel familiar with the area, leads the mercenaries to the village of the massacre. Myint says that Tint's unit that attacked the village had over 100 soldiers. As they survey the damage, a squad of Tint's soldiers arrive in a cargo truck with a group of villagers, intent on playing games and killing them. A popular form of entertainment is to make the hostages run across a field teeming with landmines and to bet on who blows up first. If anyone manages to survive, they are shot down when they reach the other side.
Outnumbered, the mercenaries take cover and watch helplessly as the soldiers' prey on their hostages. Having secretly followed the mercenaries, Rambo emerges in time to kill all the soldiers with his bow and arrow, allowing the hostages to escape unharmed. Rambo joins the mercenary team, and they make their way to Tint's soldiers' camp. They stealthily rescue the surviving American missionaries and Burmese hostages and flee under cover of night.
The next morning, Tint and his soldiers pursue them. Rambo lures a section of the army into activating a dormant British Tallboy bomb left lying in the forest, killing his targets. Eventually, Tint's soldiers manage to capture everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and School Boy (Matthew Marsden), the mercenaries' sniper.
Before Tint can execute the mercenaries, Rambo launches a surprise attack by seizing a jeep mounted with an M2 Browning machine gun, igniting a massive firefight in the jungle during which he shoots most of Tint's army dead while the mercenaries engage Tint's soldiers. The Karen rebels, led by Myint, arrive and join the fight, helping to overwhelm Tint's soldiers and kill them all. After realizing his defeat, Tint attempts to escape, but Rambo intercepts and disembowels him dead with his machete. Sometime later, Rambo returns to the United States to visit his father at his home in Bowie, Arizona.
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