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Rambo

ramboThe film opens with newsreels of the crisis in Burma. Burma, under the iron fist rule of Than Shwe, takes harsher stances against the nation’s pro-democracy movement. One of the first scenes in the film is of a group of rebels being thrown into a mine-infested marsh and then being gunned down, while a cigarette-smoking Burmese Lt-Colonel gazes grimly at the scene.

The film reveals that, following the events in Rambo III, Rambo returned to Thailand and now resides in a village near the Burmese border. He captures snakes and transports roamers in his boat. A missionary approaches him and asks Rambo to take him and a group of his fellow missionaries up the river to Burma on a humanitarian mission. Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller, to take them up there.

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