Rambo is a 2008 American/German action film starring Sylvester Stallone reprising his famous role as Cold War/Vietnam veteran John Rambo. Stallone also co-wrote and directed the film. It is the fourth and most recent installment in the Rambo franchise, twenty years since the previous film Rambo III. This film is dedicated to the memory of Richard Crenna, who played Col. Sam Trautman in the first three films, and who died in 2003. The film is about a former United States Army Special Forces soldier, John Rambo, who is hired by a church pastor to help rescue a group of missionaries who were... kidnapped by men from a brutal Burmese military regime. This film shows more killings than any other of the Rambo series - 236. Rambo kills a group of pirates, an entire squad of Burmese soldiers, and then, at the climax of the film, a huge number of Burmese army soldiers whom he shoots with a jeep-mounted machine gun. Stallone justified this in a press conference by saying the violence in the film was to draw attention to the ongoing problems in Myanmar. Including the intake of $41,368,619 in DVD sales, the film's total gross revenue is $154,611,774.
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| Release date: | January 23, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Sylvester Stallone |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Producer: | Avi Lerner, John Thompson, Kevin King Templeton |
| Editor: | Sean Albertson |
| Music by: | Brian Tyler |
| Cinematography: | Glen MacPherson |
| Screenplay by: | Sylvester Stallone, Art Monterastelli |
| Estimated budget: | $55,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |