the summary pretty much sum it all up . this be nowhere near as good a the original . with a script co write by both stallone and james cameron ( at the same time he be also write alien ) . most of the action be write by cameron and the political aspect be write by stallone . sly be in the best condition physically a he be make this and rocky 4 and he do look in great shape or jack up to the eyeball on steroid and depend on your own viewpoint or opinion . rambo start off in prison and be visit by colonel trautman who ask him to go on a special mission that could earn him a presidential pardon . he eventually agree and go off to the briefing camp run by charles napier play a washington suit try to pass himself off a former ex force to placate rambo . the mission be to find out if there be any missing pow still alive in camp in vietnam . rambo be choose a the camp he be check be somewhere he have previously be a prisoner himself . he be tell it not a rescue mission and he be there to take recon photo only . after a bad attempt at parachute from a plane he lose most of his kit and meet his contact ( who turn out to be a cute woman ) and travel down river with pirate to the camp . he find there be still prisoner and rescue one . a the 3 flee from half the vietnamese army on their river boat they be betray by the pirate but rambo kill them all and they be force to carry on to the pick up point on foot after their boat be ram and blow up with rambo almost on board . rambo be betray again and abandon a napier order the recall of the rescue helicopter . it be clear a trautman return to base to berate him that no survivor be expect to be find . steven berkoff turn up a a russian spetznatz colonel and rambo be torture and eventually escape only to be pursue by more vietnamese troop and spetznatz . kill many of them and rambo finally steal a chopper and rescue most of the prisoner to return to his base . he resist the urge to kill napier for abandon him but destroy the ops centre . a weak plot and very weak end a rambo walk off into the sunset a a free man .