There is no shortage of action movies in Hollywood, whether they were made in the past, are presently in development, or will be made in the future. But how many will you come across that have been nominated for an Academy Award, especially in the 1980s?
Rambo, on the other hand, is unquestionably on that list. We’re specifically referring to the second installment of the Rambo film franchise, Rambo: First Blood Part II, which was released in 1985 and received an Oscar nomination for Best Sound Editing.
While it is undeniable that the explosive sequences loaded with action and vehemence that the entire film franchise has on show are what make it so popular among its legions of fans, here’s something we’re sure many of you were unaware of. More than 108 people died in Rambo III, which was noted for its severe level of violence. In fact, the film’s death toll was so high and excessive that it was later acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the most violent picture of its period.
There’s no disputing that Sylvester Stallone became a household figure thanks to this action picture franchise, which now includes five films, an animated series, and the prospect of a sixth Rambo feature in the near future. However, it should be noted that Stallone was not always the first option for the title role.
There were a number of actors considered for the role of John J. Rambo. You might be surprised to learn that veteran Al Pacino was one of the performers who was given the lead role long before Stallone was selected, but he declined because he felt the character of Rambo wasn’t wild enough. Fortunately for fans of ‘Your Worst Nightmare,’ it was the iconic Sylvester Stallone who took on the mantle of Rambo and left behind such a rich legacy.
Prepare yourself for today’s video, in which we’ll discuss the most legendary series of action flicks to ever exist — the full Rambo saga, in which we’ll go through each film in detail and give you our honest opinions on each.
One War Against One Man – First Blood (1982)
Ted Kotcheff’s Rambo: First Blood is based on David Morrell’s 1972 action thriller novel of the same name. It begins with Vietnam War veteran John Rambo searching for Delmar Barry, a friend from the US Army Special Forces unit. He is astounded to find that Delmar died of cancer as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange during the conflict.
Visibly upset and left with no place to go, he hands over the picture of his unit to Delmar’s mother and continues on foot around the outskirts of the small town of Hope in Washington. Rambo runs into the local sheriff Will Teasle right after he makes it to the main town and the latter offers him a lift telling him he will make sure that he is headed in the right direction.
Teasle takes an instant dislike towards Rambo judging him by his appearance, especially his army jacket and hairstyle. He tells him how much he loathes having drifters in the town; so much so, he literally drives Rambo till the town limit and ends up giving him a ‘friendly advice’ – to get a haircut and to take a bath to avoid getting hassled any further.
A hungry Rambo tries to return back into the town only to get arrested by Teasle for vagrancy, resisting arrest and for being in possession of a hunting knife.
The police station is managed by Art Galt, a cruel chief deputy who also happens to be Teasle’s close buddy. Rambo is stripped, thrashed repeatedly with a baton, and forced to shower with a high-pressure fire hose by Galt and his deputies. Galt isn’t satisfied with that; he even has his officers dry-shave Rambo with a straight razor.
This triggers deep down buried memories of the amount of torture, which was inflicted on Rambo while he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and similar to a reflex action, he loses control. He simply fights his way out of the police station making use of his military training, repossesses his knife and flees into the mountainous woods via a motorcycle.
Teasle pursues him relentlessly, however he loses balance and his car gets toppled over. As a result of that, he calls for a search party boasting dogs, guns and a helicopter. Meanwhile, Galt who is inside the helicopter gets a clear view of Rambo climbing down a rocky cliff and disregarding every other order, he blatantly fires at him.
Having no other options left, Rambo jumps off the cliff, falls into the pile of trees below and hurts his arm in the process. With a persistent Galt still firing at him and defying protocols, Rambo picks up a rock, aims at the helicopter and throws at it in self-defense.
Galt did not have his safety belt on and with the helicopter losing balance and moving back and forth, he fell to his death. Teasle promises to exact his friend’s death and even with Rambo trying to surrender, he along with his deputies open fire at him making him retreat back into the woods.
Rambo’s true identity as a war veteran is eventually disclosed to the audience. The viewers, as well as the deputies on the lookout for him, learn that he is a Green Beret and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
But Teasle is too arrogant to call off the manhunt and he continues with it. It hardly takes Rambo much time to incapacitate the officers making use of his guerrilla tactics, on-the-spot booby traps, and even his bare hands for that matter. Rambo even camouflages himself and has Teasle cornered holding his combat knife to his throat.
This is precisely when he says what’s probably the most famous dialogue in the movie. “I could have killed them all. I could have killed you. In town, you are the law. Out here, it’s me. Don’t push it. Don’t push it or I will give you a war you won’t believe. Let it go. Let it go.”
Teasle is so enraged by this that he sets up a base camp nearby and summons the National Guard. Colonel Sam Trautman, Rambo’s commanding officer, and mentor appears and warns Teasle that they are dealing with a guerilla warfare expert, a man who is the best with firearms, knives, bare hands, and wilderness survival.
Trautman further advises Teasle to let Rambo go, to provide him a bit of gap and let him slip through. Post things get mellowed down a bit, they can have him surrender without a fight.
However, Teasle overconfident about the fact that Rambo would not stand a chance against his men simply refuses to pay attention to Trautman but allows him to talk to Rambo. Trautman tries talking Rambo down but the latter refuses to say how they brought it on themselves as ‘they drew first blood. By then Teasle’s men had already located Rambo’s coordinates.
The National Guardsmen ignore Teasle’s orders and use a rocket launcher to blow up an abandoned mine, one where Rambo was seen seeking sanctuary, in the following conflict. While it appears like Rambo is killed in the explosion, he lives and escapes. Next, he hijacks an army truck carrying an M60 heavy machine gun and returns back to town.
He also blows up a gas station, takes out the power transformers, blacks out the town, demolishes a gun store – all this as a distraction to locate Teasle on the roof of the police station. The two engage themselves in a gunfight and eventually, Rambo gets the better of him.
He is all set to kill him when Trautman comes to him and tells him to surrender as there seems to be no other way out for him to be alive, reminding him that he is the last surviving member of the Green Beret unit.
It is then that Rambo has a meltdown and starts talking about his tormenting war experiences, watching all of his friends die right in front of him one by other, the fact that he is not able to hold a job due to him still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the vicious treatment he received from his fellow citizens after he came back home from the war. It is after Trautman realizes the gravity of the situation and consoles him that Rambo turns himself in and gets taken into federal custody.
First Blood, with a script by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, and Sylvester Stallone, topped the US box office for three weeks in a row. In fact, in 1985, the film was the first big Hollywood blockbuster to be distributed in China. But do you know, this flick had a lot of scenes deleted before it made it to the final cut?
In fact, the original ending scene of First Blood is bound to shock you with Rambo killing himself with Trautman’s gun! Well, of course the test audience found it too depressing and the climax that we all know was eventually shot. Plus, besides Al Pacino being approached for the titular role, other actors such as Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, the late Paul Newman, John Travolta, Michael Douglas and even Dustin Hoffman were also considered for the character of Rambo. But, aren’t we glad that they all turned down and the role was ultimately given to Stallone!
No Man, No Law, No War Can Stop Him – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
What most others refer to as hell, he refers to as home. – Yes, that is the slogan for the series’ second instalment, directed by George P. Cosmatos and based on a screenplay by Stallone and James Cameron. The plot picks up three years after the events of the first film, with John Rambo serving his term in a labor camp prison when his former commanding officer, Colonel Sam Trautman, pays him a visit.
He is given the chance to be released from prison on the condition that he goes on a solo infiltration mission to Vietnam and locate the American Prisoners of Wars, who are still being held by the Vietnamese. Rambo travels to Thailand with Trautman and meets the American bureaucrat Marshall Murdock, one who is in charge of the covert operation. Murdock briefs him about the mission; tells him only to photograph the suspected POWs, not to rescue them and certainly not to engage the enemy.
Rambo parachutes into the Vietnamese bush, but his gear is lost in the process. All he has left is his knife, bow, and arrows. He meets CIA agent Co Phuong Bao, the contact Marshall had informed him about, once he landed. Co arranges for them to go upstream along with a local group of river pirates.
They are led to a nearby camp where Rambo finds an American prisoner tied to a makeshift cross and left to suffer. No points for guessing that Rambo ends up rescuing Banks much against the orders.
While they attempt to escape, Rambo’s actions are discovered by a Vietnamese patrol who sends a larger patrol to look for the intruder. Later, the trio gets ambushed by a Navy gunboat and even has the pirates betraying them and swapping their allegiance to the Vietnamese.
Rambo is able to send Co and Banks to safety first and then kill the pirates as well as blow up the gunboat with an RPG. Rambo radios and calls for extraction but once it becomes clear that there is a live Prisoner of War with him, Murdock calls off the extraction and leaves Rambo behind the enemy lines.
Rambo and Banks are forced to surrender and returned to the camp. It is then revealed that Murdock never really wanted to save any of the prisoners. Rambo was not supposed to find anything in the mission and had he found something, he would have been left there to deal with it all by himself.
Rambo is tortured unimaginably at the camp, and it is there that he learns about the Soviet troops collaborating with the Vietnamese army. Lieutenant Col. Podolsky, a Soviet officer, and Sergeant Yushin, his silent, well-built right-hand man, question him more.
Rambo is ordered to send a message to the American Military to stop sending commandos for further rescue missions. In the meantime, Co enters the camp as a prostitute and comes to the hut, one where Rambo is being held captive and tortured. Rambo initially does not give in to their commands but it is only after Banks is threatened to kill that he relents.
While reading out Podovsky’s scripted message, Rambo takes this opportunity and openly threatens Murdock. He is also able to subdue the Soviets and manages to flee from the camp along with Co. The duo shares a moment but soon gets ambushed by some Vietnamese soldiers and in the process, Co gets killed. Infuriated by her death, Rambo kills all the soldiers and has Co buried in the jungle.
Next, he makes use of his knife and bow and very strategically disposes of all the Soviet and Vietnamese soldiers that were sent after him. Having survived a firebomb dropped by Yushin from his helicopter, Rambo is able to hijack the helicopter and hurl Yushin out of it.
He takes charge of the helicopter and makes his way towards the camp, arming himself with an M-60 machine gun. Rambo is able to save all the prisoners and he heads towards the American territory in Thailand. While Podolsky chases Rambo in his Mi-24 helicopter gunship, the latter intentionally crashes so as to fire a rocket launcher at Podovsky’s chopper and exterminate it.
Rambo, accompanied by all of the POWs, returns to the base and destroys Murdock’s command center. He threatens Murdock with a knife and insists that he rescue the remaining POWs in Vietnam. While Trautman tries to calm him down, Rambo says that all that he wishes is for his country to love its soldiers the same way they love the country. Before leaving, Trautman asks him how he will live and to that Rambo says and we quote ‘Day by Day.
Finally, Rambo: First Blood Part II was a worldwide box office hit, grossing over $300 million dollars against a $25 million budget, making it one of the most well-known and iconic films of the 1980s action genre. Hats off to Sylvester Stallone for putting in eight months of hard work and taking archery, survival, and SWAT combat training.
He proved himself to be quite the literal one-man army, armed with a lot of new toys this time and with that shirtless muscular physique of his, Stallone had interminable hordes of female fans going gaga over him. Now, if we go by Cameron’s first draft of the script, Rambo was supposed to have a humorous sidekick, one that was to accompany him on the rescue mission.
Well, John Travolta was considered for the part but Stallone eventually decided to make it more like a solo mission. In fact, Cameron’s original screenplay also had Colonel Trautman visiting Rambo in a psychiatric hospital instead of a prison but we all know how that turned out.
God Would Have Mercy, John Rambo Won’t! – Rambo III (1988)
Colonel Sam Trautman pays a visit to Rambo in Thailand in Peter MacDonald’s Rambo III, which has a script by Stallone and Sheldon Lettich. Three years have passed since the events of the second film, and Rambo has settled into a Thai monastery and is also seen assisting in the construction of a Buddhist temple.
He occasionally takes part in the Krabi-krabong matches and donates the money that he wins to the monastery. Trautman asks for Rambo’s help and tells him to accompany him on a CIA-sponsored mission to Afghanistan. The plan is to provide weapons that include FIM-92 Stinger missiles to the rebel group Mujahideen that is fighting against the invading Soviet Army in Afghanistan.
But in spite of showing photographs of innocent civilians undergoing torture and brutality under the Soviet military intervention, Rambo simply refuses to join. It is quite clear that he is, in plain and simple words, tired of fighting.
Trautman proceeds to go on his own only to have his men get attacked by the Soviet forces while passing through the mountains at night. As for Trautman, he is taken to a Soviet base and forcibly asked for information by the Soviet Colonel Alexei Zaysen and his right hand, Sergeant Kourov.
When embassy field officer Robert Griggs learns about Trautman, Rambo persuades Griggs to deploy him on an unofficial solo rescue operation. He quickly goes to Peshawar and persuades arms supplier Mousa Ghani to transport him to Khost, the nearest settlement to where Trautman is being held as a prisoner.
The Mujahideen in the area, led by Masoud, are already wary of assisting Rambo in freeing Trautman. Post an informant passing information to the Soviets, which results in them sending choppers into destroying the village, the rebel group simply refuses to help Rambo any bit further.
With Mousa and a young boy called Hamid by his side, Rambo eventually makes his way to the base right through the minefield and barbed wire but is forced to retreat after Hamid gets shot in the leg and he himself gets wounded in the process. He sends him and Mousa away, tends to his own wound and continues with his infiltration.
In fact, Rambo is just in time to rescue Trautman from being tortured with a flamethrower. He along with Trautman is able to release many prisoners before stealing a Mil Mi-24 chopper and fleeing from the base. But with the helicopter crashing, they are forced to continue on foot.
An intense fight takes place with Rambo and Trautman killing a horde of Spetsnaz commandos, which includes Kourav getting killed as well. This is followed by Zaysen leading an entire army of Soviet tanks and surrounding them.
Zaysen tells them to drop their weapons but right before they are about to be crushed by the Soviet Army, Masoud’s Mujahideen forces along with Hamid and Mousa intervene with an unexpected cavalry charge. Even though Rambo’s injured, he manages to kill Zaysen by driving a tank into the chopper that the latter was flying in.
Rambo and Trautman say their goodbyes to the Mujahideen and leave Afghanistan at the end of the film.
The third episode in the Rambo trilogy was the most costly film ever filmed when it was released in 1988. We are talking about a budget of $58 million to $63 million dollars, which translates to the main figure practically hitting a chopper with a tank. Got the drift, right?
Taking the plot into consideration, it is quite simple and effective but that was not exactly how the original script was intended. The initial script had something to do with Rambo rescuing Afghan children with the aid of some female doctor. Don’t know how that would have turned out but thank God that the focus was kept inclined towards action.
Backed by John Stanier’s work of cinematography along with Jerry Goldsmith’s extensive background score, Rambo III is worth the watch and your time for Sylvester Stallone, the man himself!
Heroes Never Die, They Just Reload – Rambo (2008)
The fourth entry in the Rambo film franchise, directed by Sylvester Stallone, is dedicated to the late Richard Crenna, who died in 2003. The film opens with real-life images of Burmese soldiers perpetrating genocide, showing how they compel adolescent males to join the army and how women are imprisoned only to be raped later as sex slaves.
As for John Rambo, it has been 20 years since the events of the third movie. He is seen catching snakes in a jungle in Thailand and also providing boat rides. A Christian missionary doctor, Michael Burnett approaches him and asks him to take his group up the Salween River into Burma. While it seems more like a humanitarian mission to supply medical aid to the Karen tribe, Rambo refuses initially.
Burma is a war zone and according to Rambo, their work won’t really make much of a difference. It is only after Michael’s fiancée, the kind-hearted Sarah Miller, convinces him that he changes his mind and agrees to take them there.
A bunch of pirates intercepts their boat and holds everyone at gunpoint. The pirates want Sarah’s presence as a kind of trespassing across their domain. Rambo has no choice but to eliminate all of the pirates. Michael is utterly appalled by Rambo and it is then that the latter tells him if he had not done that, all of them would have been dead except for Sarah, who would have been raped first and then killed.
They arrive at the destined village and Rambo goes back but, on his way, he douses the pirate boat with gasoline and lights it on fire. Meanwhile, the missionaries carry on with their work at the village but get caught up in the midst of an ambush led by the ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint’s forces. Children are shot to death, civilians are set on fire and the remaining survivors that including Sarah, Michael, and a few more, are captured and taken as prisoners.
After a week passes with no sign of the missionaries, their pastor travels to Thailand and enlists Rambo’s assistance in escorting a team of hired mercenaries to the same village as part of a rescue mission. Rambo brings them to the village and even offers to assist them, but the mercenaries’ leader, Lewis, refuses.
Meanwhile, Myint, who happens to be a Karen rebel and acquainted with the area, takes the mercenaries to the site of the massacre. There are dead bodies scattered everywhere, decapitated heads impaled on stakes and corpses hanging too. While the group surveys the damage, Tint’s soldiers arrive in a truck with more captives that they have plans of torturing further.
The mercenaries are forced to hide and witness the atrocities – making the hostages run through a land mine ridden rice paddy. It is precisely then that Rambo intervenes and slays every last soldier using his bow and arrow. With him joining the mercenaries, the group eventually makes it to Tint’s camp in the same truck that the soldiers had brought their hostages.
Post gaining access to the camp inside, each of them strategically jumps out of the truck, taking up their own positions of attack. One by one, they are able to rescue the surviving hostages.
Tint and his soldiers, however, embark on a large manhunt once the hostages go missing. Rambo is able to dupe a large number of the soldiers into believing that an explosion was prepared specifically for them. Rambo prepares to distract more soldiers as Tint’s forces by then have captured most of the missionaries back as well as the mercenaries except for the sniper.
The group is nearly about to be executed when Rambo engages the soldiers in a surprise gunfight with a jeep mounted machine gun. This not only provides the mercenaries with enough weapons but also gives the missionaries the chance and time to hide. Also, the conclusive intervention of the Karen rebels, one that’s led by Myint, overwhelms the Burmese army. With Tint trying to get away, Rambo has him disembowell with his machete.
Rambo pays a visit to his father in Bowie, Arizona, at the end of the film.
There are no naked Stallone sequences in this film, but he is seen wearing a bandana, manning a massive machine gun, and slaying an entire army like it is no big deal. The character in the film is doing exactly what he does best, despite the fact that he despises himself for it.
The amount of violence on display might not be everyone’s cup of tea but there’s no denying that it does have a serious intent. In a run time of 91 minutes, there are about 236 people that get slaughtered. You blink and you see people dying but then again by now you know it’s the Rambo film franchise that we are talking about. Killing is normal, killing is necessary.
Also, this happens to be the first Rambo movie that has Rambo working with a team and not going by his signature style, which happens to be solo. The 2008 movie was followed by Rambo: Last Blood, which happens to be the last Rambo movie as of now.
Everyone Has One More Fight In them – Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
It has been eleven years since the events of the fourth film, and John Rambo is now living with his good friend Maria Beltran and her little granddaughter Gabriela at his late father’s horse ranch in Bowie. He considers the two to be like family, and he adores Gabriela to the point where he considers her to be his niece. But even while living a civilian life, Rambo suffers from the occasional PTSD and it is Gabriela who has been assisting him to cope with it.
All goes well until Gabriela gets to know about her biological father through her friend, Gizelle, who tells her that Manuel has been living in Mexico. With Gabriela wanting to visit her father in Mexico to get closure as to why he abandoned his family, both Rambo and Maria try to stop her reminding Gabriela of all the terrible things he had done to her and her mother.
Eventually, Gabriela drives off to Mexico without the knowledge of the duo and meets her friend Gizelle there, who takes her to Miguel’s house. Her father’s cold attitude and him telling her that he never really wanted anything to do with her or her father for that matter has Gabriela in tears and he leaves.
Gizelle tries to cheer up her friend and takes her to a nightclub but things turn worse when Gabriela has drugs slipped into her drink and gets abducted by a Mexican cartel.
Rambo eventually learns about Gabriela and her mysterious departure. He rushes to Mexico and confronts Manuel about it right away. He tells him how he should have broken his neck before, but all he gets out of it is Manuel’s request for Gabriela to leave. Next, he interrogates Gizelle and it does not take Rambo much time to figure out the real truth. It was Gizelle who sold Gabriela to the human trafficking gang in exchange for money.
Gizelle takes Rambo to the same nightclub and shows him the man who had slipped drugs into Gabriela’s drink. Rambo tortures El Faco till the time he discloses to him Gabriela’s location. Rambo is seen leaving with him and it is at the same time, the audience also gets to see a mysterious woman following them without their knowledge.
Rambo’s plans of saving Gabriela do not work in his favor as he gets surrounded by the whole gang and beaten to the extent where he can hardly fight them back. His driver’s license is taken away and after coming across a picture, they are able to recognize Gabriela. The leader of the gang, Hugo Martinez allows him to leave but at the same time lets him know how Gabriela will be punished instead for his actions.
Hugo’s brother, Victor Martinez even marks Rambo by cutting a V on his cheek before leaving him there. Rambo is later seen getting rescued by the mysterious woman, who later introduces herself as Carmen Delgado. As for Gabriela, she is mistreated to extreme ends – repeatedly injected with drugs and forced into prostitution.
Meanwhile, Carmen attends to Rambo’s injuries and ensures that he recovers completely. She then informs him about how she has been looking into the Martinez brothers since they kidnapped and killed her sister. Rambo gears himself up to get Gabriela back once and for all and ends up infiltrating one of the brothels. He slaughters literally every man till he finds a barely conscious and drugged Gabriela. Rambo carries her out of there and heads back home with her.
On the way, he thanks her for being his hope for all these years but Gabriela passes away in the car due to an earlier forced drug overdose. While Maria leaves the farm in grief, Rambo, fuming with hatred and vengeance starts setting traps all across the ranch for a final battle.
Next, he travels back to Mexico to have Carmen aiding him in finding Victor. He is able to find his home and ends up severing his head but not before turning the whole place into a bloodbath. Hugo realizes who he has picked up a war with and drives to Rambo’s ranch along with his men in Bowie.
Unbeknownst to them, the rigged traps that Rambo has laid for each one of them lays waiting for them. Hugo starts losing out on his men one after the other. However, the best is saved for Hugo. Rambo pins him against a wall and then has his heart ripped out literally the same way that Hugo did to him figuratively.
The film closes with an injured Rambo sitting on his front porch, promising to battle until his loved ones’ memories are preserved. In the final scene, he is shown riding his horse into the sunset.
Rambo: Last Blood, directed by Adrian Grünberg, is the first Rambo film in which the title character does not wear a bandana or even have long hair. The initial screenplay by Matthew Cirulnick called for a lot more major action scenes, and the ending was going to be a war battle, but it was Stallone who toned down the over-the-top action sequences and rewrote the narrative to make it seem more realistic.
Deleted scenes such as Rambo saving hikers in the rain, talking to Maria as well as Gabriela about it, going into the tunnels to listen to Five To One by The Doors, or say scenes that have a different version of his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder inside the tunnels – all can be found on the extended cut on Amazon Prime. You are welcome!
Rambo: The Force of Freedom (1986) – Animated Series
This animated series, sometimes known as Rambo, is based on the character of John Rambo from David Morrell’s 1972 action thriller novel First Blood, as well as films such as First Blood (1982) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). Michael Chain, the show is head writer and storey editor, deserves full credit for translating the series for television, and you will be shocked to learn that the show even spawned a toy line.
Coming back to the animated series, Rambo: The Force of Freedom debuted in 1986 as a five-part miniseries and generated about 65 episodes. Produced by Ruby-Spears Enterprises, the series became such a popular hit that it was actually renewed as a daily cartoon. No, we are not kidding about this and one can only wonder why was it not renewed for a second season though?
In terms of the plot, John Rambo is seen leading a special force unit known as ‘The Force of Freedom,’ which is sent on missions all over the world to combat General Warhawk’s paramilitary terrorist organization known as S.A.V.A.G.E., which stands for Specialist-Administrators of Vengeance, Anarchy, and Global Extortion.
The animated series included realistically depicted weaponry, hand-to-hand combat, and gunshots, but it paled in comparison to the film’s blood and violence. No one died there because it was purely for family viewing. In fact, the only injury happened when Rambo ended up breaking his arm that too in a survival episode.
The tv series has Rambo as a survival training instructor for children, who is seen tending to animals during his free time. Each episode has Colonel Samuel Trautman coming up with a new mission for Rambo and sometimes even Trautman is seen joining Rambo and his team on their missions.
Also, in the 1980s, cartoonists developed a penchant of plagiarising from each other’s work. As a result, it would not be altogether inaccurate to say that Rambo: The Force of Freedom resembled G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. But we will leave that to you but do share with us your thoughts about it in the comments section.
Is There Going To Be A Rambo 6?
True, Rambo 6 is not currently in development, but if there is the sixth film, Sylvester Stallone has a good idea of where he wants it to take place. Rambo: First Blood Part 2 made no secret of the fact that the character is of Native American and German ancestry.
Apparently, an earlier version of the 2008 movie Rambo initially had plans of exploring his Indian heritage widely but it got discarded eventually in favor of the Burma story.
But the Indian link is a concept that Stallone has always wanted to explore. And according to his interview with JoBlo, Stallone says and we quote, ‘The only place he could actually go where he could survive would be an Indian reservation. That is the only place because they can’t come on, it’s Federal. That is the only place he could go and heal, other than that he is done.’
While there are no plans for the sixth film at this time, fans can only hope for one in the future.