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John Rambo has gone to live a life of seclusion in an old Buddhist monastery, searching for inner peace. When friend and mentor Col. Trautman visits to ask for his help in a secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo declines, preferring a life of serenity. Trautman goes it alone and is captured by the enemy. Rambo must now set out to bring his old friend back to safety.

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ProducerAndrew G. Vajna, Buzz Feitshans, Mario Kassar

EAN5060021171054

eBay Product ID (ePID)3947453

Product Key Features

ActorKurtwood Smith, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc De Jonge

Film/TV TitleRambo 3

DirectorPeter Macdonald

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageEnglish\German\Italian\Portuguese\Spanish\Turkish

Run Time94 Mins

Aspect Ratio2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2002

FormatDVD

FranchiseRambo

FeaturesTheatrical Trailer\Making of Rambo Iii\Behind the Scenes\Photo Gallery, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerJerry Goldsmith

Additional InformationRAMBO III, which could be called "Rambo in Afghanistan," is set in 1988, near the end of the Soviet Union's involvement there. At the beginning of the film, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is living a secluded life in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. When Rambo's close friend and mentor from the American military, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), asks for Rambo's help with a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo declines. Trautman goes in anyway and is captured by a ruthless Russian commander. In response, Rambo leaves his peaceful life, determined to rescue Trautman. Armed with only a handful of glow sticks and a dozen detonators, Rambo travels to Pakistan where he meets with a group of Mujaheddin freedom fighters who agree to lead him across the border into Afghanistan. On horseback, Rambo and the Mujaheddin approach the daunting Afghan landscape--high cliffs, jagged desert mountains, and networks of underground tunnels and caves. But before they even reach the prison where Trautman is held, the Russians head them off in a high-speed helicopter chase through steep ravines. From this point forward, the action never abates. Rambo, whose complexion is a deep crimson throughout the film, scales cliffs with his bare (bleeding) hands, and defies husky guards and scores of heavily armed Russian soldiers. There are many intense parts of RAMBO III, including a disturbing look inside a shop that sells machine guns and prosthetic limbs to mine victims, and several action sequences in which Afghan soldiers use American-supplied shoulder-mount rocket launchers against the Soviets. But perhaps the most memorable scene of the film is a close-up on Rambo, alone in a dimly lit cave, where he removes a bullet from his stomach and then performs a dazzling medical trick with the leftover gunpowder.

ScreenwriterSylvester Stallone, Sheldon Lettich

Dubbing LanguagesGerman\Spanish\Italian

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Sound sourceDolby Surround

Movie/TV TitleRambo 3

Director of PhotographyJohn Stanier