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ť This article is about the film. For the video game, see Rambo III (video game).

Rambo III, is an American action film released on May 25, 1988. It is the third film in the Rambo series, and follows and was followed by Rambo in 2008. Taglines:

God would have mercy, John Rambo won't!
The first was for himself. The second for his country. This time is for his friend.

Plot

The film opens with Colonel Trautman (Crenna) visiting a monastery in Thailand to meet Rambo. He meets up with Rambo at a temple construction site after Rambo's prizefighting match. He asks Rambo to join him on a mission to Afghanistan to supply weapons including Stinger missiles to Afghan freedom fighters, the Mujahideen, who are fighting the Soviets. Trautman shows photos of civilians suffering under the Soviet rule. Rambo refuses the request.
While in Afghanistan, Trautman's troops are ambushed by Soviet troops while passing through mountains at night. Rambo learns of the incident and flies to Afghanistan with travel and weapons arranged by Trautman's secretary. He meets up with a weapons supplier who agrees to take him to a village deep in the desert, close to a Soviet base, where Trautman is kept.
From here on Rambo's fight begins as he, with the help of Afghan freedom fighters and a young boy called Nissem infiltrate the base and get Trautman out along with several other Afghan prisoners. After stealing a Soviet helicopter from the base, Rambo, Trautman and the prisoners escape in it, attacked by the Soviets along the way. Their chopper gets shot down in the ordeal and Rambo and Trautman escape by foot to avoid the Russian army who are hot on their tails. While hiding inside a cave, the duo fight against the Russian troopers, killing them off one by one and escape from the cave. Later on their way they're confronted by the Russians again. In a spectacular finale, just as Rambo and Trautman are about to be overwhelmed by the might of the Soviet Army, the Mujahideen Warriors swarm by the hundreds onto the battlefield in an awe-inspiring cavalry charge, overwhelming the Communists. John, after being shot through his leg, commandeers a Soviet tank and collides it into a helicopter piloted by the Russian base commander, which kills the latter instantly. Rambo survives and climbs out of the tank bruised and battered. He and Trautman bid adieu to the heroic Mujahideen leaders and drive off in a jeep. David Morrell, author of First Blood, the novel the first Rambo film is based on, wrote a novelization.

Production

The film's domestic box office gross was $53,715,611, which was about $11 million lower than its overall budget. However, it received a large worldwide gross of $189,015,611, or $135,300,000 internationally, excluding revenue from video rentals. Some critics note that the timing of the movie, with its unabashedly anti-Soviet tone, ran afoul of the opening of communism to the West under Mikhail Gorbachev, which had already changed the image of the Soviet Union to a substantial degree by the time the movie was finished.
   According to the 1990 Guinness World Records, 'Rambo III is the most violent film with 221 acts of violence, at least 70 explosions, and over 108 characters killed on-screen. However, the body count of the fourth Rambo movie surpassed the record. In comparison, Rambo holds the record with the most kills out of the entire Rambo series, with 236 kills and an average of 3.2 kills per minute.
   The Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters seen in the film are in fact modified Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma transport helicopters with fabricated bolt-on wings similar to the real Hind-Ds which were mainly used in the former Soviet bloc nations. The other helicopter depicted is a slightly reshaped Aerospatiale Gazelle.
   An extensive film score was written by Oscar-winning American composer Jerry Goldsmith; however, much of it wasn't used. Instead, much of the music Goldsmith penned for was recycled. The original CD/LP contained only a portion of the new music. A more complete 75-minute version of the score was released years later.
   According to a report by the CBC's The Fifth Estate, trip wires were used to bring down the horses, causing some controversies of animal cruelty.

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