10 Dumbest Decisions In Action Movie History
6. Making Things Personal With John Rambo - The Rambo Franchise
John Rambo was a Special Forces soldier in Vietnam, returning home as a drifter with severe PTSD. In each film, some new tragedy would trigger Rambo on a personal level, leading to him putting his skills to work.
In First Blood, Rambo is arrested by small town police officers for simply wanting a hot meal; their treatment of him reminds him of his time as a POW and he escapes before waging war on the police and military.
In First Blood Part II, Rambo returns to Vietnam to find evidence of POWs still in captivity. While there, he's betrayed by the American bureaucracy and watches a woman he was falling in love with die, setting off a massive battle with Vietnamese and Russian forces.
In Rambo III, the capture of his ex-commanding officer by Soviet troops in Afghanistan sends Rambo on an unofficial mission to the Middle East to rescue him, engaging most of the Soviet army there in the process.
In 2008's Rambo, he connects with a group of missionaries whose capture and deaths pits him against the Burmese army.
In last year's Last Blood, the death at the hands of a Mexican drug cartel of a teenage girl Rambo watched grow up sees him turn his own home into a death trap where he engages several trucks full of mercenaries and the cartel heads.
Ironically, the man just wants peace.