When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast
green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone)
leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of
mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been twenty years since Rambo
helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days
the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. Yet despite the
fact that Rambo has long since traded his guns for a fishing reel, the world's
longest running civil war rages into its sixtieth year on the nearby Thai-Burma
border. It seems like every day more rebels, mercenaries, medics, and peace
workers cross through the remote village where Rambo lives, most of them never
to be seen again. One day, human rights missionaries Sarah (Julie Benz) and
Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) show up asking Rambo to guide them up the Salween
so they can get some much needed food and medical supplies to the desperate
Karen tribe. According to Sarah and Michael the Burmese military has planted
landmines all along the roads leading into the tribe's village, making it
virtually impossible to reach the tribe via land. At first Rambo flatly refuses
to cross into Burma, but these refugees will most certainly die without aid and
he eventually relents. Two weeks after Rambo drops the group off in dangerous
territory, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) arrives with a chilling message: the
aid workers never returned from their mission into the jungle, and the embassies
refuse to help Marsh and his fellow missionaries find their missing friends.
Pastor Marsh knows that Sarah, Michael, and the rest of the missing missionaries
are being held hostage by the Burmese army, and in order to hire the mercenaries
needed for a rescue mission he has mortgaged his house and taken up a special
collection from his congregation. Now, despite the fact that Rambo has long
since sworn off all forms of violence, the knowledge that innocent missionaries
are being used as pawns in a brutal war leaves him with no other choice than to
venture behind enemy lines on his most dangerous mission to date. ~ Jason
Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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