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Rambo IV
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Rambo (also known in other markets as Rambo IVnote since in Europe, First Blood was already released as Rambo) or John Rambo, and sometimes called Rambo: The Fight Continues in home media after its tagline) is the fourth film in the Rambo franchise, released in 2008.Living in Thailand near the Burmese border, Rambo is asked by a group of American missionaries to take them to Burma on a humanitarian effort. While transporting them, they are ambushed by pirates. When negotiations fail, Rambo kills all the pirates, which disturbs the missionaries but doesn't fully dissuade them from going to the village in Burma — where they end up being captured during an attack. After ten days, Rambo is asked by a pastor associated with the missionaries to lead a group of mercenaries on a rescue mission, to which he reluctantly agrees. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: Major Pa Tee Tint. He commits all kinds of war crimes and other horrible things, but once a real battle appears, he immediately runs away while leaving his own troops to the slaughter after shooting an innocent missionary In the Back. | |
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Friendly Sniper | |
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Averted. During the final fight, Sarah (who is beside the Friendly Sniper) cries out and covers her ears while the fight ensues. Many viewers assume this is simply her reacting to the violence around her. It is in fact due to the noise of the sniper's rifle. Gunfire, in general, is loud enough to damage any unprotected ears nearby (there's a reason why even outdoor shooting ranges mandate hearing protection), and those who have ever been next to an extremely powerful firearm such as a rifle chambered in .50 BMG know that the report coming out of the muzzle is EXTREMELY loud (especially since the weapon includes a muzzle-brake which reduces felt recoil, but effectively turns the volume up to eleven). To put it into perspective, a rifle like that creates a concussion from the muzzle that can be felt on the skin from several yards away. She's not crying out in terror, she's crying out in pain because her eardrums are on the verge of shattering. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Early in the film, Major Pa Tee Tint tells parents of boys he kidnapped to conscript into his army to fear him along with hearing and believing him. | |
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Villain Opening Scene | |
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Villain Opening Scene: The movie opens with Major Pa Tee Tint and his army forcing civilians to run through a mine-infested marsh. When the civilians make it through, the soldiers gun down the civilians in cold blood as Pa Tee Tint looks on. In the Director's Cut, this scene was moved to a much later time. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier/Bloodier and Gorier: Yes, even in comparison with the sequels. This is up to eleven. | |
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Land Mine Goes "Click!" | |
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Landmine Goes Click: Averted. Louis steps on a landmine while making their escape and it just blows up, shredding his leg in the process. | |
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In the Back | |
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In the Back: Pa Tee Tint's only contribution to the final battle is to shoot an unarmed, fleeing missionary in the back. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, when Rambo disembowels Pa Tee Tint, he also slices off the fingers from his left hand. | |
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White Man's Burden | |
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White Man's Burden: The Missionaries have this vibe going on which Rambo calls Sarah out on when she tried to ask for his services. He accuses them of wanting to help the Burmese tribesman out of self-righteous grandstanding rather than actually making a foreseeable difference which Sarah doesn't fully refute. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: While the series has never shied away from blood, in this installment...HOLY... SHIT. Rambo's rampage with the Browing 50-cal results in many soldiers getting more or less liquified. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The Tallboy bomb. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Sarah among the missionaries. She recognizes the danger they are facing and is the only one of them to recognize the ugly necessity of Rambo killing the pirates. However, she may in turn strongly avert the trope because she was the one who convinced Rambo to travel to Burma in the first place despite the obvious danger and egged on Michael to continue after Rambo killed some attacking pirates when he adamantly requested they leave and return at a different time. | |
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Unknown Rival | |
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Unknown Rival: Somewhat subverted, as Pa Tee Tint knew about the mercenaries and tortured them regardless, but he had no idea who Rambo was and never met him in person until Rambo gutted him. Upon seeing Rambo, the expression on his face was more confusion than terror. | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending: The film ends with Rambo coming home to sunny Arizona, and hiking up a long dirt road to see his father for the first time in decades. | |
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SteelEardrums | |
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Steel Eardrums: Averted. During the final fight, Sarah (who is beside the Friendly Sniper) cries out and covers her ears while the fight ensues. Many viewers assume this is simply her reacting to the violence around her. It is in fact due to the noise of the sniper's rifle. Gunfire, in general, is loud enough to damage any unprotected ears nearby (there's a reason why even outdoor shooting ranges mandate hearing protection), and those who have ever been next to an extremely powerful firearm such as a rifle chambered in .50 BMG know that the report coming out of the muzzle is EXTREMELY loud (especially since the weapon includes a muzzle-brake which reduces felt recoil, but effectively turns the volume up to eleven). To put it into perspective, a rifle like that creates a concussion from the muzzle that can be felt on the skin from several yards away. She's not crying out in terror, she's crying out in pain because her eardrums are on the verge of shattering. Also averted by a Burmese soldier seen wearing earplugs while standing next to a mounted machine gun. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Michael the missionary leader believes in the law, but by the end, he beats a soldier to death with a rock to save one of the mercenaries. The "My God, What Have I Done?" look on his face says it all. Which just proves Rambo's words "When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing". | |
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Same Plot Sequel | |
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Same Plot Sequel: To Rambo III: In which a reluctant Rambo is recruited by a group who are seeking to send aid in a war torn country, and when they do, they are immediately kidnapped by the villains. Rambo is then told by the group's superior about the disappearance, and works with other mercenaries to find and rescue the missionaries. They also meet the leader of the rebel group who agree to help Rambo and the group. Rambo saving Sarah from her torturer is also similar to how Rambo saves Trautman. And the end battle in which Rambo takes on the Burmese army with a mounted machine gun and is eventually aided by the rebel army is very much like the climactic battle of the third movie. | |
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Impromptu Tracheotomy | |
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Impromptu Tracheotomy: During the night rescue scene, one of the enemy soldiers who tries to rape Sarah ends up having a massive chunk of his trachea ripped out by Rambo, with a lingering shot of his bloodied throat. | |
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Good Is Dumb | |
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Good Is Dumb: The missionaries veer dangerously close to carry a couple of kids out of the danger zone before he's captured, and later assists Michael in treating the wounded mercenaries, while Reverend Marsh, who sent them out there in the first place, is a Good Is Not Soft example of this, hiring mercenaries to rescue his people. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: One of the mercs spits on the ground as he is about to be executed. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: Discussed in the extended version of Rambo's argument with Sarah over "what is": | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The final battle. Save for one mercenary hit by a grenade, a handful of rebels, and one missionary who is cowardly shot in the back by Pa Tee Tint, Rambo and company absolutely slaughter the Burmese Army batallion. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The damned Tatmadaw: A baby impaled on a bayonet getting waved around like a flag in the background. Then there was that boy who was ripped away from his mother and thrown into a burning hut. Several children are shot at close range, one is stepped on and shot while under the boot of his killer. Then there's the boy that Pa Tee Tint raped... | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
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Scenery Gorn: The destroyed Karen village. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Sarah. | |
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Non-Action Big Bad | |
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Non-Action Big Bad: Unlike the other villains, Major Pa Tee Tint is shown running for his life and hides from the major battle going on at the end of the movie. The only time he adopts a combat pose is to shoot a fleeing, unarmed missionary in the back. | |
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Head Crushing | |
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Head Crushing: Near the end of the movie, Michael the missionary leader who spends the entirety of his screentime as a pacifist finally decides Violence Really Is the Answer in order to save Lewis' life, as he took down an enemy soldier about to shoot Lewis by grabbing a rock and bludgeoning the soldier's brains out. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: In a deleted scene, Sarah blames herself for everything that's happened as she convinced Rambo to take them into Burma. | |
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Nightmare Sequence | |
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Nightmare Sequence: Rambo has a tormented dream in which he sees a Monochrome Past Clip Show with footage from the previous movies. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Sometimes, violence is the only solution. Face the danger and don't run away. Eventually, no bad deeds go unpunished. | |
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Suicidal Pacifism | |
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Suicidal Pacifism: Displayed by nearly all the missionaries in the film, though at least one of them learns the error of his ways by the end. | |
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The Missionary | |
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The Missionary: A bunch of Christian missionaries was pretty much the MacGuffin for Rambo to go do his thing. | |
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Made of Plasticine | |
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Made of Plasticine: Justified with Schoolboy's Barrett M82 and Rambo's M2 Browning, both of which fire a BMG .50 cal round, thus shredding bodies to pieces and makes them explode into geysers of blood if there's a head shot. Also counts as Reality Is Unrealistic. Rambo ripping the throat out of a rapist with his bare hands, however, firmly qualifies. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
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Knight of Cerebus: Major Pa Tee Tint is more brutal, sadistic, psychotic, and noticeably more disturbing than the previous Big Bads or previous kinds of villains all together. The graphic outcomes of the atrocities he committed are absolutely played for horror and make the past villains' sins pale in comparison. He's the complete 180-degree contrast to Teasle if comparing Pa Tee Tint's large amount of Kick the Dog acts to Teasle's large amount of Pet the Dog acts. The subsequent antagonist Hugo Martinez after him couldn't even hold the candle of being the darkest and most monstrous villain in the films like Pa Tee Tint. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Rambo and Lewis, in very mean-spirited words, express how stupid the missionaries were for going into a war-torn area on a humanitarian mission. Considering all the vile, barbaric crimes Pa Tee Tint’s army commits, THEY WERE NOT WRONG. | |
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Private Military Contractors | |
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Private Military Contractors: Represented by the team, hired to save missionaries. In contrast with the Burmese regular army, they are rather brave, capable, and professional. | |
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The War Sequence | |
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The War Sequence: Much like the end of Rambo III, the climax has Rambo facing down a battalion of the Burmese Army. | |
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Violence Really Is the Answer | |
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Violence Really Is the Answer: During the film's climax, Michael (who had previously been a complete pacifist) picks up a rock and uses it to bash in the head of a Burmese soldier. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Sarah finally manages to convince Rambo to take them into Burma with this: | |
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Sore Loser | |
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Sore Loser: Major Pa Tee Tint plays a sick game where he forces prisoners to wade through a mine-filled marsh. When they all make it safely across, he gets very pissed and orders his soldiers to fire on them. | |
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Hollywood Silencer | |
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Hollywood Silencer: School Boy's rifle. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: Done via forged machete and .50 BMG bullets. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: In Major Pa Tee Tint's first appearance, he forces civilians to run across a minefield before having his men kill them all. He gets even worse from there. | |
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Mamet Speak | |
| Rambo IV / int_822b648f | comment |
Mamet Speak: This exchange: | |
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Final Battle | |
| Rambo IV / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
Final Battle: A very bloody and brutal one at the end. | |
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BFG | |
| Rambo IV / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Among others, the .50-Cal. machine gun that Rambo uses to slaughter the military in the fourth movie, thoroughly wrecking a truck and a patrol boat in the process. The Barrett M82CQB anti-material sniper rifle, coincidentally running on the same .50BMG rounds as the machine gun, which Schoolboy so expertly uses to blast enemy soldiers in half and to vaporize heads. The effects of the .50BMG round on a human body are not exaggerated. The rocket launcher that the Karen rebel uses to blow up the patrol boat. Admittedly unnecessary at that point, since the aforementioned two BFGs have already riddled the boat full of holes and eliminated the crew, but it sure makes for a spectacular kaboom. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
| Rambo IV / int_85557b38 | comment |
Reality Is Unrealistic: Lots of people rolled their eyes at the "exaggerated" carnage at the climax of Rambo, not realizing that a .50 BMG round is a big bullet, developed to use on tanks, and it really will do that sort of stuff to a human body. Here's an image for reference◊ (note: it's the one on the left). It's revealed in the DVD bonus features that a soldier in the US military wrote the filmmakers to say how impressed he was with the realistic depiction of the gun. Same with the Tallboy exploding. As for why he wasn't poisoned by nuclear fallout, as many internet snarkers expected a cookie for pointing out, it's because the Tallboy wasn't a nuclear bomb; any big enough bomb, even massive explosions like the battleship ''Yamato'' blowing up◊, will form a mushroom cloud. The Tallboy bomb was designed by the British in 1943 to be used by specially-modified Lancaster heavy bombers to destroy the hardened underground factory bunkers the Germans had started using. Only it wasn't supposed to penetrate the ceiling with surgical precision like a modern bunker-buster. Oh, no! This giant motherfucker was designed to be dropped near its target, penetrate several hundred feet underground, then detonate the tremendous assload of conventional high explosives it carried, which would actually cause a Goddamn earthquake, destroying the target and anything else in the general vicinity. And it worked, too, exactly as intended. The Tallboy in the movie is on the side of a hill, so we can assume the Lancaster carrying it was either shot down by the Japanese or crashed on its own, otherwise the only way it would be found is if they were digging a mine. | |
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Badass Boast | |
| Rambo IV / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Lewis, right after the event described in the Mamet Speak entry below. | |
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Truth in Television | |
| Rambo IV / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: One of Rambo's traps is built around an old bomb that the British dropped in the area in WWII. Many areas of the world have tons of forgotten unexploded ordinance and a large-scare effort to find them is constantly ongoing because most of these devices only failed mechanically; the explosives are still potent and deadly. As mentioned previously in this article, the film's final battle shows in pretty realistic fashion what a 50-cal rifle round can do to a human being. The 50-cal was developed for use against lightly-armored vehicles and enemy fortifications. When used against unprotected human targets, it rips off heads and limbs like a hot knife through butter. | |
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Badass Crew | |
| Rambo IV / int_8879db82 | comment |
Badass Crew: The mercenaries. Rambo becomes their Sixth Ranger. Lewis comes out as the most badass of the mercenaries, being the only one that — despite a crippling injury — has the guts to yell at the enemy commander. A short time later, still with said injury, he downs a bad guy with a Super Headbutt Of Death. | |
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One-Hit Polykill | |
| Rambo IV / int_88e5fcbc | comment |
One-Hit Polykill: Schoolboy pulls it off during the final battle. Massive anti-material bullets don't stop at the first body they punch through... | |
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Only in It for the Money | |
| Rambo IV / int_895ec17 | comment |
Only in It for the Money: Lewis admits that he's only taking the job because he has an ex-wife and three kids to support. | |
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CoolGun | |
| Rambo IV / int_8a296bb2 | comment |
The Barrett M82CQB anti-material sniper rifle, coincidentally running on the same .50BMG rounds as the machine gun, which Schoolboy so expertly uses to blast enemy soldiers in half and to vaporize heads. The effects of the .50BMG round on a human body are not exaggerated. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
| Rambo IV / int_8a817c2a | comment |
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Burmese soldier who intends to rape Sarah gets his throat ripped out bare-handed by Rambo. Later in the film, the child-raping Major Pa Tee Tint gets disemboweled while alive by Rambo. It's probably not a coincidence that the two rapists suffer the most gruesome deaths in the movie. | |
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Gutted Like a Fish | |
| Rambo IV / int_8c5afdf0 | comment |
Gutted Like a Fish: Pa Tee Tint's ultimate fate. | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome | |
| Rambo IV / int_8cb259f4 | comment |
Overshadowed by Awesome: The mercs are extremely badass, but they're still completely overshadowed by Rambo. | |
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Revisiting the Roots | |
| Rambo IV / int_8eb3d48f | comment |
Revisiting the Roots: Rambo takes a few queues from the original novel, being much darker and less patriotic than the second and third films were, and showing Rambo as more of a self-hating death machine than a noble hero. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
| Rambo IV / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Pretty much any Burmese villain killed by Rambo, be it a soldier or pirate, but Rambo ripping out the throat of a soldier who attempted to rape Sarah as well as the disembowelment of Major Pa Tee Tint are the most satisfying deaths in the movie. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Rambo IV / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Major Pa Tee Tint is a sadistic asshole who takes pleasure in killing helpless victims, but despite his title as the leader, he is actually a Dirty Coward who ran the moment a real fight broke out. In his attempt in trying to escape, Rambo stabs him in the gut, then brutally guts him alive, slicing off his fingers in the process . Same goes for the soldiers under Tint's command. They commit various atrocities throughout the film against the Karen villagers and the missionaries, so it's very fitting whenever they themselves get slaughtered by Rambo or get popped by Schoolboy. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
| Rambo IV / int_91697559 | comment |
Half the Man He Used to Be: The jeep's driver had half of his body completely disintegrated when Rambo fires that 50. cal on him from point blank. Later on, the lower half of his body (a pair of legs with some bits of flesh from the waist attached) falls out from the side of the jeep. In the same scene, a few random mooks get blown to chunks by the 50. cal, at least one who gets separated from being shot in the waist. To make matters even more horrifying, the damage done via the M2 Browning is tame compared to how violent .50 BMG is in real life. In real life, M2 Brownings are well known for what they do to soft squishy targets, especially human beings. | |
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Defiant to the End | |
| Rambo IV / int_966da803 | comment |
Defiant to the End: The mercenaries in the end. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
| Rambo IV / int_9cad69bf | comment |
Depraved Homosexual: The Big Bad is a child molester, and his only known victim was a boy. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
| Rambo IV / int_9ce6492a | comment |
Taking the Bullet: Subverted; Rambo dives to save Sarah when a couple of soldiers see them escaping the camp, but the soldiers both get killed by Friendly Sniper Schoolboy before they can shoot. | |
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| Rambo IV / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Rambo IV / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Right before Rambo is gonna save the missionaries, he makes a philosophical thought about "war is in your blood. God can't make that go away. When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing". During the last battle, the leader of the pacifistic missionaries smashes one soldier to death with a rock, acting only on survival instincts. One of the mercenaries kept constantly calling the Big Bad a "gutless fuck." Then Rambo guts the said Big Bad in the end. | |
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One-Man Army | |
| Rambo IV / int_9e943076 | comment |
Also averted with the lead minister of the missionaries' church. His response to the incident was to enlist a group of mercenaries and Rambo (while clearly knowing who Rambo was) to rescue them, THEN pray for their safe return. | |
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Recycled Premise | |
| Rambo IV / int_a6fa41b | comment |
Recycled Premise: This is pretty much a Bloodier and Gorier version of Rambo III. Though instead of Rambo trying to rescue Col. Trautman, he's now trying to rescue Sarah and a group of missionaries, and the Karen rebels are pretty much similar to the Mujahideen from the third movie. The Big Bad in both movies are similar too, as both Zaysen and Pa Tee Tint love slaughtering men, women, and children and burning down villages. Atmosphere-wise, it's very similar to Rambo: First Blood Part II. The setting in the Burmese rainforest is very reminiscent of those in Vietnam. | |
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Red Shirt | |
| Rambo IV / int_ac2094ca | comment |
Red Shirt: Averted. The mercs are quite capable of holding their own, and only one of them (En-Joo) is definitely killed in the finale. Lewis and Diaz are still alive but badly injured when the smoke clears, while Schoolboy and Reese emerge more or less unscathed. | |
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Fiery Coverup | |
| Rambo IV / int_b39b84ee | comment |
Fiery Cover-Up: After killing the Burmese pirates and dropping off the missionaries into Burma, Rambo sets the pirates' boat on fire and blows it up. | |
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Take That! | |
| Rambo IV / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: To Thou Shalt Not Kill. The pacifistic missionaries are utterly decimated by Maj. Pa Tee Tint's forces, and the two that live only do so because Rambo and the mercenary team are willing to dispense a lot of death and suffering on their behalf. | |
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| Rambo IV / int_b552b24 | type |
Truer to the Text | |
| Rambo IV / int_b552b24 | comment |
Truer to the Text: While it tells an original story, the characterization of Rambo is the closest to the novel of any of the films. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Rambo IV / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: All of the missionaries. Notably Michael the leader who, despite already having been to Burma five times beforehand, decided to try to venture back when it was in the middle of a genocidal civil war with his fiance in tow. Even after being attacked by pirates, they still believe they can make a difference in Burma by teaching them religion and providing books and medicine. Michael himself borders on Ungrateful Bastard, who promises to report Rambo to the authorities even after he kills a group of pirates to save him and his colleagues' lives (and prevent his fiancée from being raped) despite expressing some gratitude towards him for his act. He also tries to save his fiancée by himself, only to be stopped by Lewis. He gets better in the end, killing one of the soldiers to protect Lewis. Well, the leader of the missionaries IS played by Ryan Chappelle, what would you expect! Sarah is actually pretty smart, she recognizes the necessity of Rambo's actions and the dangers they all face, especially herself, but continues anyway because she wants to help people that much. In a deleted scene, she blames herself for the situation they're in as she convinced Rambo to take them into Burma even when Michael wanted to leave. Also averted with the lead minister of the missionaries' church. His response to the incident was to enlist a group of mercenaries and Rambo (while clearly knowing who Rambo was) to rescue them, THEN pray for their safe return. | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
| Rambo IV / int_ba6cf869 | comment |
Same goes for the soldiers under Tint's command. They commit various atrocities throughout the film against the Karen villagers and the missionaries, so it's very fitting whenever they themselves get slaughtered by Rambo or get popped by Schoolboy. | |
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Hard Truth Aesop | |
| Rambo IV / int_bbc77bb5 | comment |
Hard Truth Aesop: Violence Really Is the Answer when violence was also the question. The missionaries believed they could nonviolently resist the S.P.D.C. and help the Karen people. All but two of them are dead by the end. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Rambo IV / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Rambo's first line in English is "Fuck off." As Rambo had never sworn much before, it was a good indication of where his mind is at. | |
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It's a Long Story | |
| Rambo IV / int_bda3d97b | comment |
It's a Long Story: | |
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Neck Snap | |
| Rambo IV / int_c2fc1ae | comment |
Neck Snap: En-Joo performs one during the final battle. Partially subverted in that it's shown to be quite difficult on a struggling man and he follows up by stabbing him after it's done. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
| Rambo IV / int_c4b8e2ae | comment |
One-Woman Wail: Battle Adagio. | |
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Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You | |
| Rambo IV / int_c84e56a2 | comment |
Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Rambo aims his arrow at one of the mercenaries, after saving the POWs who were about to be shot by a Burmese military firing squad. The same scene is also used as one of the movie posters used internationally. | |
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Armies Are Evil | |
| Rambo IV / int_c9aea8c8 | comment |
Armies Are Evil: While the PAVN and Soviet Army in previous films already were portrayed very unsympathetically, the Burmese Tatmadaw takes the cake. All that they left in their wake are tortured civilians, murdered children, and raped women. In their own homeland. | |
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Child Soldiers | |
| Rambo IV / int_c9c756a8 | comment |
Child Soldiers: Major Pa Tee Tint forcefully recruits some in a village he terrorizes. | |
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Sociopathic Soldier | |
| Rambo IV / int_ce70175b | comment |
Sociopathic Soldier: Major Pa Tee Tint is the commander of a Burmese military unit and is a monstrous, murderous Sadist, leaving rape and slaughter in his wake. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
| Rambo IV / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The missionaries only call Rambo "John", after Sarah asks what his name is. The mercenaries know him as "the boatman". | |
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Depraved Dentist | |
| Rambo IV / int_d7d8e447 | comment |
Depraved Dentist: Averted, the missionary dentist is a Nice Guy who does some good and vital work on the villagers, and is suffers a Heroic BSoD after being captured by Pa Tee Tint. | |
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PedoHunt | |
| Rambo IV / int_ddda6dd8 | comment |
Pedo Hunt: It seems the Big Bad Major Pa Tee Tint wasn't evil enough, so over halfway through the film, he is revealed to have a preference for young boys. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head A-Splode: The result of being shot in the head with either the truck-mounted machine gun that Rambo jacked in the finale, or School Boy's Barrett. Both are chambered in .50 BMG rounds. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Sarah to Rambo. | |
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Gorn | |
| Rambo IV / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: Yeesh... Specifically, the ending battle scene. It's on par with the likes of Saw, Hostel and Kill Bill: Vol. 1. That's not to say that the prior three films didn't contain violence, but they were nowhere near as bloody as this one is. Many critics felt it was a bit excessive. Stallone said that the toned-up violence was to emphasize the badness of the situation in Myanmar. As for complaints about the "excessive" violence, see Reality Is Unrealistic below. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A group of missionaries comes to Burma on a humanitarian mission to help villagers caught up in the chaos. Cue a good number of them being killed and the lone girl among them nearly being raped by the monstrous Burmese soldiers. | |
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Self-Destructive Charge | |
| Rambo IV / int_f110c25 | comment |
Self-Destructive Charge: When Rambo's big machine gun clicks empty, the Burmese soldiers quickly figure out why the rain of death has stopped, and immediately run forward, peppering Rambo's emplacement with shots and attempting to reach him. Unfortunately for them, Rambo knows how to reload a belt-fed machinegun (even a large-caliber one), and once the new belt's in place, the enemy charge has now put all of the soldiers out of cover and nicely in line to receive a new large dose of destructive lead. This is actually standard practice in most modern militaries when you lack any support (air, armor, artillery, etc), in that you charge a MG position the second the MG team stops to reload. This is done for several reasons: 1: A typical MG team is a gunner and assistant, and during a reload, both are scrambling to reload the weapon (or change the barrels) and get it going again, and, unless guarded by a rifleman, are now vulnerable to flanking. 2: Get out of the MG's kill zone. When that MG is loaded again, it will start firing as soon as it's charged, and you don't want to be in the area when that starts. Also, if the MG is working with someone (like a forward observer), remaining in that zone is a good way to get obliterated by artillery or tactical air support. 3: If you can take the position and the weapon, you can turn to your use. This isn't so much an issue with an M249 SAW, or any other 'light' machine gun, but if you are under fire from a M2 .50cal... You want it on your side. Ultimately, in the film, the Burmese troops were likely going for a mix of point 1, and point 3, but failed due to having mercs mixed in with them, a sniper popping them like zits, and eventually the Karen rebels lobbing mortar shells at them. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
| Rambo IV / int_f85354eb | comment |
Attempted Rape: A Burmese soldier enters Sarah's cell intent on raping her. Instead, he gets his throat ripped out by Rambo. The Burmese pirates killed by Rambo who wanted to take Sarah were mentioned to have plans to viciously rape her after taking her if Rambo hadn't intervened. | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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Fun with Subtitles: One who is Played for Drama - when the missionaries, Rambo in tow, are cornered by pirates, Rambo tries being the translator and mediator, with English subtitles appearing onscreen... until the pirates noticed Sarah and demands her as payment. At which point the subtitles disappears (even though the pirates are still barking orders) as a Five-Second Foreshadowing - Rambo isn't listening to them anymore, he's prepping to kill everyone. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Rambo IV / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: A sick one. He warned one of the missionaries not to look the Burmese in the eye. He does this later after he is captured and is then fed to the pigs. | |
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