John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has put his bloody past behind him and literally gone out to pasture, training horses in the American MidWest. He’s adopted a family of sorts, Maria (Adriana Barraza) and her granddaughter Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal), living a quiet life. Gabrielle has dreams of confronting her father who has abandoned her and now lives in Mexico, and after hemming and hawing over it for about five minutes on screen she heads there to do so. Of course since this is a Rambo film it must address the issue of the day, and she falls into the hands of a human trafficking ring. Rambo stupidly approaches the ring leaders from a position of absolute weakness and is beaten to a pulp by them and left for dead.
Miraculously he is saved and nursed back to health by an independent journalist. He heads back to the house where the girls are being held and rescues Gabrielle. (Honestly you should just skip all of that until you see the Mexican convoy converge on Rambo’s Ranch...
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