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Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Marc de Jonge

Kurtwood Smith

Spiros Focás

Sasson Gabai

Doudi Shoua

Randy Raney

Marcus Gilbert

Alon Aboutboul

Mahmoud Assadollahi

Yosef Shiloach

Harold Diamond

Mati Seri

Hany Said El Deen

Shaby Ben-Aroya

Marciano Shoshi

Sadiq Tawfik

Julian Patrice

Tal Kastoriano

Benny Bruchim

Tikva Aziz

Milo Rafi

Clark Acton

R.T. Freeman

Iyad Hajjaj

Paul Dion Monte

Mic Rodgers

James R. Symons

Michael Dittrick

Kenny Bates

Thomas L. Fisher

Jerry Goldsmith

Joy Todd

Bill Kenney

Donna Barrett Gilbert

Sheldon Lettich

Edward Warschilka

Adrian Gorton

John Stanier

Buzz Feitshans

Benjamín Fernández

Giannetto De Rossi

Rodger Pardee

O. Nicholas Brown

Andrew London

Pier Luigi Basile

Peter MacDonald

William Mesa

Richard La Motte

Alan Cassie

Vic Armstrong

Michael Westmore

Kamal Haasan

Danny Epper

Johnny Hock

Tom Elliott

Steven Lambert

Michael Stevenson

Mario Kassar

Charles Murray

Charles Bella

Andrew G. Vajna

Kenneth Hall

Harry Hauss

Wayne Fitzgerald

Ronit Ravich-Boss

Michael Fuller

Tony Munafo

Giorgio Postiglione

Greg Papalia

David Morrell

Terry Collis

Delia Circelli

Gary Epper

Freddie Hice

Gary McLarty

Bob Orrison

Larry Verne

Danny ben Menahem

Gerard Jakubowicz

Margie O'Malley

Michele Sharp

Howard Fannon

David J. Negrón Jr.

Louis H. Lavelly

John Campbell

Mark Rich

Frank Leasure

Ron Reedy

Itzik Ben-Aroya

Earl Sampson

Evelyn Dutton

Sam Moore

Moshe Bukman

Ross Taylor

Solange S. Schwalbe

Timothy E. Wade

Bob Bridges

Bob Rose

Roy Matthews

Rami Siman-Tov

Yoni Hamenachem

Constance A. Kazmer

Shelley Brown

Yossi Yarkoni

John Sweeney

Carlo Postiglione

Sidney Sidell

Dave Friedman

Kevin O'Connell

Yuda Tatarko

Michael Minkler

Mike De Luca

Carol Fisher-Mann

Lorane Mitchell

Fred J. Brown

Mark De Alessandro

Jacob Bukman

Michelle Pleis

Robert J. Litt

Victoria Sampson

William B. Kaplan

Michael T. Travers

Linda Folk

Eli Yarkoni

_**Rambo goes to Afghanistan to fight Russians**_

Living at a Buddhist temple in Thailand as a handy man, Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is offered a mission by Col. Trautman (Richard Crenna) to go to Afghanistan to assist Afghans against the Soviets. He goes only to rescue someone dear to him. The cast includes Sasson Gabai as Rambo’s sidekick Mousa; Spyros Fokas as wise Afghan Masoud; and Marc de Jonge as Soviet Col. Zaysen. 

“Rambo III” (1988) contains what you would want from a Rambo flick: A muscular protagonist, a one-man-army scenario, a noble cause and loads of action. It also has a quality cast, fabulous locations and a good score. 

Playing like a Conan the Barbarian adventure set in the modern day, it has a comic book vibe like the previous film, but not as bad. Everything works for an action/adventure flick until the last 15 minutes when it’s burdened by one too many action scenes. The strange thing about movie action is that too much of it becomes boring. That’s the case here with the final act.  

Just so there’s no misunderstanding, Rambo was NOT fighting for what became the Taliban. Rambo Meets a man named Masoud, the wise leader of the Mujahadeen who are fighting the Soviets. This character was named after a notable Mujahadeen commander of the Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who fought against both the Taliban & Al Qaeda. Massoud warned the Euro leaders about Bin Laden and was assassinated by Al Qaeda on September 9, 2001, two days before the September 11th Attack.

My ranking of the Rambo movies is as follows: First Blood, Rambo IV, Last Blood, Rambo III and Rambo II. Only the first two are great, but the other three have their points of interest for action/adventure fans.

The film runs 1 hour, 42 minutes, and was shot in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Arizona; and Israel.

GRADE: B-/C+

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The expression "flogging a dead horse" comes to mind with this unnecessary and unremarkable trequel. This time our reclusive, eponymous, hero (Sylvester Stallone) has to relocate from idyllic Thailand to war-torn Afghanistan - amidst the Soviet invasion! Why? Well his erstwhile CO "Trautman" (Richard Crenna) has managed to get himself captured whilst leading a covert operation to supply some tribal rebels. "Rambo" has to get his skates on, though, because Uncle Sam is denying all knowledge of this clandestine operation and chances are that the prisoner won't last very long under the tender mercies of "Zaysen" (Marc de Jonge - presumably, Steven Berkoff was busy?). There is plenty of traditional action, loads of pyrotechnics and firefights but the plot is predictable - almost propagandist; the dialogue really rather banal and the whole thing seems to be little more than a stop-gap enterprise to keep the franchise momentum going while Stallone and the team concoct something more substantial for the next outing. It's not unwatchable, but it's pretty forgettable afterwards.

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Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Marc de Jonge

Kurtwood Smith

Spiros Focás

Sasson Gabai

Doudi Shoua

Randy Raney

Marcus Gilbert

Alon Aboutboul

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