Rambo 4

Introduction:

The 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 Lieutenant-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, and sells them in a nearby village. A missionary, Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze), approaches Rambo and asks him to take him and a group of his fellow missionaries up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission. Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller (Julie Benz), to take them up there.