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Rambo III (1988)

★ 6.2 · 3,455 ratings on TMDB

The first was for himself. The second was for his country. This time is for his friend.

Rambo III poster★ 6.2

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

DirectorPeter MacDonald
CastAlon Aboutboul, Doudi Shoua, Kurtwood Smith, Marc de Jonge, Marcus Gilbert, Randy Raney
GenresAction, Adventure, Thriller, War
The emergence reading

Rambo III keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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