EXCLUSIVE: Rambo 5 Synopsis

By DAVID KAASBRADEN

Our source in LA has done it again. Although scheduled for release in 2011, Insight UnSound brings you the full synopsis of the latest instalment of the groundbreaking Rambo franchise. On August 31, 2009, Millennium Films officially gave the green light to Rambo 5, with Stallone both directing and starring.  The plot revolves around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the US - Mexico border.
 
Synopsis
The film opens with news footage of a crisis in Mexico City. Mexico is under the iron fist rule of President Sol Trujillo, and takes a harsher stance against the nation's pro-democracy movement. Rebels are thrown into a mine-infested field of cacti and then gunned down by a Mexican army unit, while the military officer Colonel Rene Moco gazes grimly at the scene.

Former US soldier John Rambo is now living near the US -Mexico border. He makes a living capturing rattlesnakes and selling them in a nearby town.  A missionary, Miguel Burnette, asks Rambo to take him and his associates across the border in a boat on a humanitarian mission to the help the pro-democracy movement. Rambo refuses but is convinced by Consuelo Gomez to take them.

The boat is stopped by human traffickers who demand Consuelo in exchange for passage. After negotiation fails, Rambo kills them all. Although his actions save the missionaries, it greatly disturbs them. Upon arrival, Miguel says that they will travel by road and will not need Rambo's help for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Mexican army, led by Colonel Moco, brutally attacks the village, killing most of the villagers and two missionaries, and kidnapping the rest. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor comes to Rambo to ask for his help in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.

Troubled by Consuelo's potential fate, Rambo decides to accompany the mercenaries. After seeing the destroyed village filled with mutilated humans and animals, Rambo encourages the platoon to move on. Hijacking a truck, they create a plan to save the hostages held at a drug lord's camp, doing so within fifteen minutes to avoid alerting the army. Rambo helps Consuelo and the others to escape. The drug lord finds his hostages missing and organizes a massive manhunt. Everyone except for Rambo and Consuelo is captured. Just as the group is to be executed, Rambo hijacks a truck-mounted .50-caliber machine gun and engages the Mexican army. A group of pro-democracy rebels joins the fight to help Rambo and the mercenaries defeat the machine guns of the Mexican army. Seeing that the battle is lost, Colonel Moco decides to flee, only to run into Rambo's machete, which Rambo then uses to behead the Colonel.

Encouraged by Consuelo's words, Rambo returns to the United States. The last scene shows him walking along a rural highway, past a cattle ranch and a mailbox with the name 'R. Rambo' on it. He makes his way down the gravel driveway as the credits roll.