In the ensuing battle, in which both Trautman and John are wounded, Rambo manages to kill Zaysen by driving a tank into Zaysen's helicopter. After the battle, which the Mujhaideen win, Rambo is asked if he wants to use his skills to help them fight the soviets.
Rambo strongly wants to help his friends, but knows that he has to move on from his days of killing. He returns to his home in Thailand for peaceful life. Over twenty years later, John Rambo is still living in Thailand and resides in a village near the Burmese border.
He makes a meagre hermit-like living capturing snakes and selling them in a nearby village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett , asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribes people. Rambo refuses, but he is convinced by Sarah Miller to take them, and she becomes his friend. The boat is stopped by Burmese pirates who demand Sarah in exchange for passage. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all.
Although his actions save the missionaries, it greatly disturbs them. Upon arrival, Michael says that they will travel overland and will not need Rambo's help for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Tatmadaw Army , led by Major Tint to attack for another genocide to the innocent people. They kill the entire of the villagers including two missionaries and kidnap the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor comes to ask Rambo's help in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.
Rambo agrees to transport the soldiers. At their destination, Rambo tries to accompany the mercenaries with a black-wrapped package in hand, but their leader, described as a former "old school" and egotistical S.
S trooper, refuses. After arriving at the destroyed village with their guide, Karen, they are forced to hide when some Tatmadaw arrive by truck and force their villager prisoners to run a gauntlet of hidden land mines thrown into the village rice paddies.
The mercenary leader will not order a rescue, as he is concerned that the missing Tatmadaw will put the rest on alert. However, Rambo shows up with what is revealed to be his bow and shoots down the Tatmadaw. Rambo confronts the leader when the man threatens him, and with his arrow pointed at his eye socket, Rambo tells him and the others that soldiering is what they are and do, and says to them, "You can either live for nothing They plan to save the hostages at a P.
Rambo helps Sarah and the others to escape. The Tatmadaw unit finds the hostages missing and organizes a massive manhunt. John Rambo using the bow to kill the Tatmadaw army because of their brutal interest of corruption. Everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and the mercenary sniper " School Boy " is captured. But just as the group is to be executed, Rambo seizes a truck-mounted Browning M2 and minces the Burmese army, giving an opening for School Boy to shoot down the Tatmadaw near the others and provide them also with weapons.
Karen rebels join the fight to help Rambo and the mercenaries win. Major Pa Tee Tint attempts to get away, but is personally disemboweled by Rambo wiping out the last remaining forces of the brutal army that serve the regime.
Encouraged by Sarah's words, Rambo returns to live in the U. Rambo ". He then makes his way down the gravel driveway as the credits roll. Rambo killed over 80 people in the fourth rescue mission, the most in the series. Although his country is much more supportive of veterans now, John Rambo still is a very traumatized man, and coming home to support will not change the fact that he can't live with himself due to the horrible things he has done or witnessed during in the past.
If another film is made, this will likely be the central focus of the film, as Sylvester Stallone says that he would like to take the franchise in a different direction and see the character "go out in a blaze of glory" , although he has said that there likely will not be another film. On January 6, , Stallone officially confirmed that he was retiring the character of John Rambo, having deemed the fourth Rambo film to be a worthy and satisfying conclusion to the series and the character arc, showing that Rambo was on his way to getting better and making amends with his past.
Stallone said: "The heart's willing, but the body says, 'Stay home! It's like fighters that go back for one last round and get clobbered. Leave it to someone else. Thus, if any more Rambo media is produced, such as the Rambo television series which is being talked about with Fox, possibly about Rambo's son; it will not involve Stallone.
He added: "You know when you realize there's nothing more to pull out? As an action film, I was very satisfied that it dealt with the Burmese situation. It had one foot in a current event, the longest civil war in history, 65 years at that time. It was so brutal, which civil war is, I was shocked they even gave me an R-rating.
I said, 'This is probably going to be the last decent film of this genre that I'm going to do as a solo act. There's nothing left. Filming was completed in December John Rambo lives a peaceful life at a farm along with Gabriela and her grandmother.
John tries to keep his past behind him, and move on with what's in front of him. However Gabriela wishes to see her long gone father in Mexico and get answers to why her father would leave her and her mother. Gabriela asks John and her grandmother for they're blessings but to her dismay, they both warned her not to go and that her father was not a good man. Rambo then waited for a day and has not seen Gabriela home, but then Gabriela's grandmother arrived and told John that she went to Mexico and has gone missing.
John angrily brings his gun and knife and drove off to Mexico. John first arrived to Gabrielle's father and asked him where she is, but the father told him that she has not arrived to his home and tries to close the door on John's face.
John kicks the door open and asked him again where is Gabrielle, again the father said he did not know. John stared at him and threatens him that he should have broke his neck long ago and left the fathers apartment.
John then arrived to Gabriela's friend and asked her where she was, her friend said she did not know, only for John to recognize the bracelet on her wrist. He grabs her hand and threatens her to show the man Gabriela was with last time, him and Gabrielle's friend arrived to the club and she showed John where the man was. He tells her to leave, and proceeds to wait until the man left the club.
As both the man and John left the club, John grabs the man and tortures him, as well as asked where Gabriela was, the man then told him the location where she might be, and both went off to find Gabriela. John then arrived to the location and asked the man if he is sure, the man told him he was sure, then John knocked the man out, where he possibly dies offscreen due to critical injuries, and left the car to search for Gabrielle. However he was actually being stalked by a group of thugs and continues to walk away from them.
They take his driver's license, revealing the ranch's location, and a photo of Gabriela, who they recognize. The gang's leader, Hugo Martinez, tells Rambo that he will let him live, but Gabrielle will be severely punished for his actions. Hugo claims that he will make an example of her, by getting her addicted to heroin until she dies.
The gang's second-in-command and Hugo's brother, Victor Martinez, then marks him by cutting his calling card into Rambo's cheek, claiming that he will do the same to Gabriela. The gang leaves and Rambo is taken to safety by the woman who had followed him, a journalist named Carmen Delgado, who has been investigating the human traffickers since her sister was abducted and killed by them. She takes Rambo to her home and helps him recuperate from his injuries. Some time later, Rambo is well enough to go back for a second rescue mission.
He raids one of the brothels, killing several men in the process, and finally succeeds in rescuing Gabrielle. However, as a result of an earlier drug overdose, she dies returning home. Rambo subsequently buries her near their house and mourns her demise. In grief, Maria leaves the farm, claiming that there is nothing left for her there anymore.
Rambo echoes the sentiment, claiming that he will likely drift from place to place again, like he "always did". After Maria leaves, an enraged Rambo prepares to destroy the gang.
He returns to Mexico and asks Carmen to help him locate the gang members. Carmen is reluctant to help Rambo with this, claiming that it will not solve anything. However, after Rambo appeals to her personal grief, she ultimately agrees and gives him the address of Victor's personal residence.
Rambo arrives late at night, kills Victor's bodyguards and ambushes him in the shower. The next morning, Hugo arrives to find his brother's mutilated and decapitated corpse, with a knife pinning a photo of Gabrielle to Victor's heart. On the way back to Arizona, Rambo dumps Victor's head on the road and fortifies his farm with booby traps for when Hugo's men arrive to get revenge. Hugo assembles his men and arrives at Rambo's home. The gang arrives at Rambo's farm and he lures them into the tunnels underneath his property, where he quickly eliminates them one by one using explosives, knives and firearms sometimes even in coordination with his traps, despite sustaining some injuries.
Rambo finally kills all of Hugo's men, saving him for last and telling him over a walkie-talkie that he will rip out his heart, just as Hugo did to him. Rambo implodes the tunnels, forcing Hugo to go into the barn, where Rambo is waiting. Rambo uses a recurve bow to shoot arrows into his brachial nerve, paralyzing his arms. Rambo then further pins him to the wall and cuts out his heart with the knife he had made for Gabriela, avenging her death.
Having completed his revenge, an injured and drained Rambo sits in a rocking chair on his porch, where he ponders that he is all alone once again.
He proclaims that despite everything, he will continue living so he can keep the spirits of his loved ones alive. In a mid-credits scene, Rambo gets up from the chair, saddles up one of his horses and rides off to an uncertain future. Throughout the film series, especially in the first and fourth films, John Rambo is displayed as a tragic hero, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life, which is especially complicated because of prejudice against returning soldiers.
He is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War. Rambo has difficulty talking about his problems and he is too scarred from trauma to open up to most people.
The only person he really trusts in the world is Trautman, and he still has only told him about one of the brutal deaths he witnessed. This makes Rambo look like a quiet thug or super soldier to people who don't understand the character, but in reality he is so overwhelmed with self-hatred and nightmarish memories that he can't talk to anybody.
As a result, conversations with Rambo are fairly one sided, as he chooses not to engage with most people and only speaks directly to a few people. As he grows older, as he becomes bitter and angry at the world, even leading to him casually swearing and making snide comments under his breath at people, and downright insulting people. This is especially elaborated upon in 's Rambo, where he refuses to be even remotely social with anybody, even Sarah Miller, who is displayed as a kind soul who wants to learn about Rambo's life and why he is the way he is.
He often replies with one-word answers in this film and is terse with people so they will leave him alone. Rambo declines and Sarah asks, why he rebuffed the man he was talking to. Rambo replies that he wasn't talking to anybody and Sarah changes her statement to "the man who was talking to you". It is evident that Rambo did care deeply for all the men in his unit, forming a brotherly bond with them.
This is shown at the start of First Blood, when Rambo arrives as the home of Delmar Barry, he walks with a bit of a spring to his step, he is very polite and talkative to Barry's mother, making small talk and even cracking a joke. It's one of the few times he's seen to smile, being visibly excited at the prospect of seeing his old friend again.
However, upon learning of Barry's death, Rambo is disheartened, offering the photo of his unit that he carries around to Barry's mother before giving his condolences and leaving, his walk having slowed to a trudge as he departs. During his breakdown to Trautman, he talked about how they had planned to go on a road trip to Las Vegas in Danforth's Chevy Convertible. He cracks several of these, poking fun of the state he and Trautman are in and the predicaments he has gotten himself into.
Most fans of the Rambo series aknowledge that Rambo III was more so made to exploit Rambo's character rather than further develop him. This would explain the cheesy one-liners that were typical of other heroes of the time, but not Rambo. It could be argued, though, that Rambo's demeanor was considerably softer since Rambo III dealt with Rambo's only friend who he has known since Baker Team. Since Trautman could talk with Rambo about anything, Rambo would be a much happier man around him.
However, even in Rambo III, Stallone carefully maintains the tortured persona that Rambo has to deal with, rarely cracking a smile and revealing the sad eyes he must have. It has been argued that Rambo became more antisocial and angry at the world after Trautman died in between the events of Rambo III and Rambo. In the next films and novelizations, he is displayed as a man who wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do literally anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger.
Due to his violent nature, many civil people tend to fear him. However, Colonel Samuel Trautman, who was his commanding officer in Vietnam and most likely his only friend, understands him and the pain and torture he had endured in the war and is the only one able to understand the problems he has. Rambo is a survival expert in almost any terrain, especially in jungles and dense forests. Rambo is also an expert in guerrilla warfare, and he is easily able to camouflage himself, create improvised weaponry, and nurse his own wounds.
He is also an expert in operating various types of war machines like helicopters and tanks, firing artillery and machine guns and hand-to-hand combat. In a deleted scene, Rambo's Class A dress uniform is shown in his footlocker with the following ribbons:.
Rambo drops some of his many medals to which the meaning was gone down a prison sewage hole in the novelization of Rambo: First Blood Part II. He claims to have found it therapeutic.
Rambo's Social Security Number is , although citizens in Arizona are issued ones with the prefixes , , and According to the file, John Rambo has the same birthday as Sylvester Stallone. But, Rambo is one year younger. Rambo is a male of average height. Kotcheff and Stallone wanted to leave the door open for the possibility for Rambo to live or die at the end of the movie, so they let Douglas quit. Crenna would reprise his role in two more Rambo movies before he passed away in He is the only actor besides Stallone to appear in multiple Rambo movies.
The unused alternate ending of First Blood , in which Trautman shoots and kills Rambo, can be seen briefly in the dream sequence in the fourth film, Rambo. Stallone personally selected famed knifemaker Jimmy Lile to design and create the iconic knife first used by Rambo in First Blood. The goal was to create a knife that could be reliable for extreme survival situations , including being long and sharp enough to slice food or cut wood; waterproof and able to hold necessities like matches and medicine; able to carry a nylon string for fishing or snaring; and have an alternate blade of sawteeth for defense and in order to cut poles for shelter.
In all, six knives were created to be used during production of First Blood , with additional updated versions made for subsequent movies in the series. Initial drafts of the screenplay for the sequel to First Blood were written by James Cameron, who at the time was still looking for his big break.
Director George P. Cosmatos, who was hired by the producers because they loved his previous movie Of Unknown Origin , originally wanted to shoot the movie in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, which proved to be logistically and financially impossible for such a massive production. Instead, they shot the movie entirely on location in Acapulco, Mexico because it was cheaper and closer to the U.
The Mexican jungles doubled for Vietnam, and the production cleverly inserted small details in an effort to make it seem like they were in Asia. It was then painted over again and used in the jungle temple where Rambo meets Co Bao, which was a set created by the production only 10 minutes away from their hotel as well.
The U. The most costly location was an actual rice paddy that was planted by the production and used during the scene where Rambo attempts to escape with the POWs. The beachfront digs at least made the potentially grueling production a bit easier … that is until Hurricane Odile destroyed most of the sets during shooting in September of In the novel and first film, Rambo appeared as a soldier with PTSD and had difficulty adjusting to normal life.
He is prone to violence because of torture which he suffered in the war, and, in later films and novels, was seen as someone trying to avoid conflict, while being willing to fight and do anything to save those close to him. John Rambo was first seen in the novel First Blood, from , where he is found hitchhiking in Kentucky. He is arrested for vagrancy and, while in a small cell, starts having flashbacks of his days as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and begins to fight off police who are holding him.
Some police who try to cut his hair and shave him and slashed and killed, after which Rambo flees and hides in the mountains, while becoming the focus of a manhunt. The first film, needless to say, is somewhat different, where Rambo turns himself into Trautman rather than killing himself, which then led to spawning a huge number of sequels.
The most recent film. Rambo: Last Blood, caused David Morrell some issues, and he even took to Twitter to distance himself from it.
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