a5c7b9f00b Rambo mounts a one-man mission to rescue his friend Colonel Trautman from the clutches of the formidable invading Soviet forces in Afghanistan. John Rambo's former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman's request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen. not many people agree with me on this but you gotta admit, Rambo is awesome, i mean who can get shot take gun powder and seal the wound up with fire..... no one Thats right. OK if you watch Rambo III Expecting To Get a plot. you were obviously disappointed. this move does not have a plot and it doesn't need one because the reason it was made was to blow crap up! this movie one of the greatest movies of all time (Not Really but still cool). if you want a movie with a plot don't see this movie. if you want to see a movie with Stallone constantly changing between weapons without doing anything that could possibly be considered changing a weapon this is your movie. So First Blood 2 was a segue? Start with the Vietnamese and end up with the Soviets? Sigh. Well, the truth of the matter is this third film of the franchise is no less exciting than the first two, although in the first film we were dealing with a man who felt disconnected from his country. In this film, Rambo has found a sort of peace in his life with the monks, a simple life without the hustle and distraction of modern living. While I doubt Stallone's character has achieved a state of Zen, there is a calmer, more focused individual who is working on the temple buildings. Even in his communication with his Afghan guide, John is calmer, more easy going, yet still guarded in his person. He lets go only what is needed. Technically, the film is superb. The photography and stunts are nothing short of amazing, and the quality of the plot is par for the Rambo action genre. Rated R for violence and language, this film is collectible with the set and viewable once if you have seen the others. Not my favorite of the series, but certainly not the worst. The battle scenes in Rambo III are explosive, conflagratory tableaux that make for wrenching, frequently terrifying viewing. Always at ground zero in the chaos is Rambo - gloriously, inhumanly impervious to fear and danger - whose character is inhabited by Stallone with messianic intensity. When Vietnam veteran John Rambo (<a href="/name/nm0000230/">Sylvester Stallone</a>), a Green Beret with two Medals of Honor and currently living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, turns down the request of his former commanding officer Colonel Sam Trautman (<a href="/name/nm0001077/">Richard Crenna</a>) to accompany him on a mission into Afghanistan and Trautman is subsequently captured by the Russians, Rambo launches a one-man rescue mission. Rambo III is the third movie in the Rambo series, which was based on First Blood, a 1972 novel by Canadian-American novelist David Morrell. It was preceded by <a href="/title/tt0083944/">First Blood (1982)</a> (1982) and <a href="/title/tt0089880/">Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)</a> (1985) and followed by <a href="/title/tt0462499/">Rambo (2008)</a> (2008). In the novel, Rambo died at the end of the shoot-out in Hope, Washington (seen in First Blood), so all sequels are based only on characters created by David Morrell. The screenplay for Rambo III was written by Sylvester Stallone and American screenwriter Sheldon Lettich. Morrell novelized the movie in 1988. As Trautman and Rambo approach the Pakistani border thinking they have made it to safety, they are suddenly aware of an army of Soviet tanks approaching. Colonel Zaysen (<a href="/name/nm0209030/">Marc de Jonge</a>) orders them to drop their weapons and assures them of a fair trial, but Trauman and Rambo open fire on them. As the army closes in, a full cavalry of Mujahideen warriors, accompanied by Mousa (<a href="/name/nm0299924/">Sasson Gabai</a>) and Hamid (<a href="/name/nm0795226/">Doudi Shoua</a>), suddenly surround them, overwhelming the Soviets. A fierce battle follows, and Trautman and Rambo are both injured. Not one to give up, Rambo manages to hijack a Soviet tank and ram it headfirst into Zaysen's helicopter, killing him in the explosion. To everyone's amazement, Rambo crawls out of the tank. In the final scene, Mousa and Hamid say goodbye to Rambo, and Rambo tells Hamid to keep the good luck charm. As Trautman and Rambo drive off the battlefield, Trautman comments that they may be getting a little soft. "Maybe just a little, sir", Rambo replies. In the UK, the movie was released on VHS twice. The VHS by Guild Home Video is severely censored. Nearly all action sequences are missing some frames and in total not less than a 45 scenes got cut. The second VHS release by Universal lacks only one scene—a horse falling down—due to the Animals Act of 1937. Again one can find a comparison with pictures here. All cuts were waived for the Blu-ray/DVD. In a manner of speaking, the Afghan Mujahadeen (literally 'Warriors of God') were made up of many different factions including the future Taliban and their enemies in the Northern Alliance. During the Soviet occupation all these factions accepted the backing of the CIA against their common enemy, the Red Army.