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Rambo
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January 25, 2008
Director Sylvester Stallone
Producer Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, John Thompson
Screenwriter Sylvester Stallone
Studio Lionsgate
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Kim Dickens, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, James Brolin, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Jake La Botz, Tim Kang, Paul Schulze, Bruno Campos
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
MPAA Rating R
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Source: Official Site
CanMag Review Score:
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Plot / Synopsis
Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region.
That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers...
Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. He tells Rambo he's mortgaged his home and raised money from his congregation to hire mercenaries to get the missionaries, who are being held captive by the Burmese army. Although the United States military trained him to be a lethal super soldier in Vietnam, decades later Rambo's reluctance for violence and conflict are palpable, his scars faded, yet visible. However, the lone warrior knows what he must do...
(2nd synopsis)
In Thailand, a group of Christian aid workers recruit John Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (aka Myanmar). When the missionaries fail to return, Rambo is persuaded to take a group of mercenaries back into the war-torn border region to find them. What follows is a descent into hell on earth.
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Julie Benz on the Rambo DVD
Most of her long speeches about the political situation in Burma were cut for the sake of pacing.
June 2, 2008
Sly on Rambo!
Running through the jungle... Single handedly defeating armies.
January 23, 2008
Rambo Poster
Lionsgate (finally) gave us our own copy.
October 26, 2007
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