Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake LaBotz, Maung Maung Khin, Ken Howard, Sai Mawng, Cameron Pearson, Paul Schulze, James With

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Producers: Kevin King, Avi Lerner, Sylvester Stallone, John Thompson
Associate Producer: David Morrell
Executive Producers: Peter Block, Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort, Josef Lautenschlager, Florian Lechner, Trevor Short, Andreas Thiesmeyer
Art Direction: Suchartanun 'Kai' Kuladee
Casting: Sheila Jaffe
Costume Design: Lizz Wolf
D.O.P.: Glen MacPherson
Editor: Sean Albertson
Make-Up: Scott H. Eddo
Music: Brian Tyler
Production Design: Franco-Giacomo Carbone
Set Decoration: Witoon Suanyai

Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region.

That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers...

Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. He tells Rambo he's mortgaged his home and raised money from his congregation to hire mercenaries to get the missionaries, who are being held captive by the Burmese army. Although the United States military trained him to be a lethal super soldier in Vietnam, decades later Rambo's reluctance for violence and conflict are palpable, his scars faded, yet visible. However, the lone warrior knows what he must do.

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Filming Locations: Burma; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; USA
MPAA Warning: Strong Graphic Bloody Violence, Sexual Assaults, Grisly Images and Language
Production Budget: $50 million
Production Companies: Rogue Marble, Emmett/Furla Films,
Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG IV, Lionsgate,
Millennium Films, Nu Image Films, The Weinstein Company
Production Schedule: 23rd February 2007- 4th May 2007
Web Sites: Official Site - The IMDb

Garth's Review: "Rambo"
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- This is the first Rambo film without Richard Crenna, who portrays Col. Sam Trautman in the three previous film. James Brolin was attached to play the Col. Samuel Trautman role after Richard Crenna died, but the role was written out of the script.

- Stallone originally set out to make this film before 2006's "Rocky Balboa", but Rocky got green-lighted by MGM, and he had to put Rambo on hold.

- This is the first (and as of this writing in 2007, the only) film in the Rambo series to be directed by Sylvester Stallone.

- This is also the only film in the series to not be musically scored by Jerry Goldsmith, who passed away in 2004 after his long battle with cancer.

- So far the latest installment of the Rambo franchise has undergone many name changes, and has been known as the following: John Rambo, Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye, Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra, and Rambo: To Hell and Back.

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