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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.
John Rambo woont inmiddels in een klooster. Op een dag komen zijn voormalige kolonel Trautman en de ambassadeur van de V.S. hem opzoeken met een aanbod om een missie te accepteren. John weigert, en Trautman besluit om in zijn eentje naar Afghanistan te vertrekken. Zijn missie gaat echter mis; hij wordt door de Russen gevangen genomen en gemarteld in een zwaar bewaakt fort. Wanneer John is ingelicht, besluit hij om naar Afghanistan te vertrekken en om zijn kolonel te redden. Hij krijgt hierbij hulp van Afghaanse rebellen.
The third entry in the ultra-macho Rambo action movie series finds muscle-bound warrior John Rambo (co-writer and star Sylvester Stallone) refusing a request from his former Vietnam superior, Green Beret Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna). Trautman is to lead a mission to aid the mujahedeen rebels fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns his friend down. When the mission goes awry and Trautman is subsequently captured and tortured within a prison fortress, Rambo launches a rescue effort of his own, armed with his trademark bow and exploding arrows. Along the way, he allies himself ...
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with the freedom fighters and runs afoul of the villainous Russian commander Zaysen (Marc de Jonge). At the time of its release, Rambo III -- released in the same month in 1988 that Russian troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan -- was the most expensive film ever made, at 63 million dollars.
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