Adding to the film’s notoriety, the original theatrical release included a title card that read: "This film is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan." After the September 11 attacks in 2001, this dedication was quietly removed from subsequent home video releases and television airings. Upon release, Rambo III was savaged by critics. Roger Ebert gave it one star, calling it a "soulless, mechanical exercise in action moviemaking." The dialogue is clunky, the acting (outside of Stallone and Crenna) is wooden, and the film’s jingoistic tone felt dated even for 1988. It also holds a dubious record: with an estimated budget of $63 million (a huge sum at the time), it was the most expensive film ever made. While it was a box office hit, it earned less than its predecessor in the US, a sign that audiences might be tiring of the formula.
The film is perhaps best remembered for its final 45-minute assault on the Soviet command post. Rambo uses everything from rocket launchers to a tank in a brutal, explosive showdown. In one of the most famous scenes in action cinema, Rambo fights Zaysen in a hand-to-hand battle inside a moving tank. The choreography is raw, the explosions are huge, and the body count is astronomical. phim rambo 3
By the time Rambo III exploded onto cinema screens in May 1988, John Rambo was already a cultural phenomenon. The brooding, muscular Vietnam War veteran had evolved from a misunderstood drifter in First Blood into a one-man army in Rambo: First Blood Part II . For the third installment, Sylvester Stallone and director Peter MacDonald (taking over from franchise creator Ted Kotcheff) decided to go even bigger. The jungle of Vietnam was swapped for the desert mountains of Afghanistan, and the enemy was no longer a forgotten squad of POWs—it was the entire Soviet Red Army. Adding to the film’s notoriety, the original theatrical