But they are forced to hide from arriving Burmese soldiers gambling with the lives of local villagers by making them run across a land mine ridden rice paddy. They head to the destroyed and abandoned village, where they meet Myint, a Karen rebel that helps guide them.
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During this time, he finally comes full circle and realizes that killing is what he is best at, no matter how far he has tried to run from it.Īfter an intense boat ride where Lewis, one of the mercenaries, insults him repeatedly, Rambo attempts to accompany them on the rescue mission and grabs his compound bow, but Lewis rebuffs him. After waking him up, Rambo leaves and, unable to rest, builds himself a machete. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor, Reverand Arthur Marsh comes to ask Rambo's help in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen. They kill most of the villagers and two missionaries and kidnap the rest, including Michael and Sarah.
The mission goes well until the Tatmadaw, led by Major Tint, attack. Upon arrival, Michael says that they will travel by road and will not need Rambo's help for the return trip and he intends to report Rambo for his hostile, albeit necessary, actions. Although his actions save the missionaries, it greatly disturbs Michael. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all. The boat is stopped by pirates who demand Sarah in exchange for passage, which Rambo knows will lead to her rape, torture and most likely death of all on the boat. However, Rambo is convinced by the kind-hearted Sarah Miller to take them. Rambo, convinced that he wasted his life fighting for false pursuits that changed nothing and angry at the world refuses, as Burma is a war zone and their work will not make a difference, as it never does. A missionary, Michael Burnett, asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River into Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribespeople. He also fishes with his bow and gives the fish to local monks, as well as transporting roamers in his boat up and down the Salween River. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a nearby village. soldier John Rambo still lives in Thailand and now resides in a small village near the Burmese border.
The film begins with rebels being thrown into a land mine-infested marsh and forced to run across it before being gunned down by the Tatmadaw Army, while the sadistic military officer Major Pa Tee Tint gazes grimly at the scene while casually smoking a cigarette.įormer U.S. The SPDC take harsh stances against the nation's pro-democracy movement. Burma is under the iron-fisted rule of military dictator Than Shwe amid the political protests of the Saffron Revolution.