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(1988)

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Sex & Nudity

  • One reference to rape but it is said as a fact rather than crudity.

Violence & Gore

  • A prisoner of war is shown being electrocuted by soviets. Later he is seen hanging by his arms and is executed by gunshot. Both scenes are brief.
  • A prisoner of war is seen being dragged along the ground as he resists his russian captors, and later shown being to led down the hall with a rope held tight around his neck.
  • Most scenes of violence depict combatants/soldiers shooting at each other during battles, firefights and ambushes. Despite a high body count, mostly moderate blood spillage is seen at times, and while nothing is particularly extreme, you do see a few graphic close ups of bodies riddled with gunfire but this isn't the case for every death, just some.
  • In the beginning there's a fight with two men, they beat each other with sticks in a form of sport.
  • A helicopter massacres a village, you see people falling and dying from machine gun fire.
  • Rambo jumps on a machine gun and blows up the helicopter.
  • Numerous people are shot, there are some bloody bullet-wounds.
  • Rambo throws a knife at an enemy soldier's neck. You see it briefly, no blood.
  • Rambo has shrapnel through his body, and cauterizes it. There's a lot of blood in this scene where he pushes the shrapnel out of his body, and sets the wound on fire to stop the bleeding.
  • Rambo fights another man, they strangle and punch each other. Then, Rambo pulls a grenade on the other man's uniform and puts a rope around his neck and drops him into a pit, hanging him. Then the grenade goes off, and the dead man explodes. (no blood)
  • A somewhat intense scene at the end, with tanks and explosives and lots of explosions but there is no blood.

Profanity

  • 2 uses of "bastard", and 1 use of "son of a bitch".
  • In an alternate opening available as a seperate bonus feature on the DVD/Blu-ray release, the phrase "Oh My Fuckin' God!" is said once by one of the American soldiers when the Soviets ambush his team.
  • When asked where the missles are located, Trautman tells Zaysen that it's in his ass.
  • During the fight with Kourov, Rambo calls him a motherfucker, and when he can't get a clear shot at Kourov, Trautman utters "Goddamnit! Shit! Fuck!".
  • In a joke ending available as a seperate bonus feature on the DVD/Blu-ray release, when Trautman tells him that he's got his number, Rambo responds to him by saying that he's got his fuckin' number, too.
  • During the attack on the Mujahideen villiage, Rambo exclaims "Oh My Fuckin' God! Damnit!". A few moments later, he lets out another "Fuck!". A few minutes after that, when Rambo destroys one of the two Soviet gunships along with it's three Spetsnaz occupants, Zaysen too mouths out a "Fuck!"
  • There are a few uses of damn and hell throughout the film.
  • When first discovering Trautman visting him at his monastery, Rambo says that he dosen't believe this shit. A few minutes later, after Griggs informs him of the war between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, Rambo asks him, "The fuck's that got to do with me?"
  • At one point, Rambo comments that the Mujahideen dosen't take any shit.
  • 5 uses of "Shit", and 8 uses of "Fuck".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some drinking.
  • A character smokes a cigarette briefly..

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Two intense but very brief scenes show prisoners of war being electrocuted and then shot by the Russians inside their fort.
  • There is a scene showing where Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has been stabbed by sharp stick and tries to get it out by pushing it through the other side of his body, and he then put gunpowder inside the wound and lights himself to stop internal bleeding. Although it may seem like there will be much gore in this scene, there really isn't that much blood shown.
  • Rated R: For Strong Action and Bloody Violence Throughout, and Some Strong Language.

Spoilers

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Profanity

  • At the climax of the film, when asked by Trautman if he had any ideas regarding the Soviets, Rambo proclaims, "Fuck 'em!" and fires his weapon at the Soviets.
  • When he burns the posion out of his wound in the cave, Rambos utters "Jesus Christ!".
  • When he finds Trautman and the rest of his prisoners gone, Colonel Zaysen exclaims "Shit!".
  • Rambo let's out a "Holy Shit!" when the Soviets start attack him and Trautman during the climatic battle. Towards the end of the battle, during his final confrontaion with Zaysen, Rambo let's out a "Fuck!" when a missle hits the tank he commandeered which nearly killed him.

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