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Rambo (ook bekend als Rambo IV of John Rambo) is een Amerikaanse actiefilm uit 2008 van Sylvester Stallone. Het is gebaseerd op een script van Art Monterassteli en Sylvester Stallone, dat voortborduurt op de voorgaande Rambo-trilogie. De film ging in première twintig jaar nadat de film Rambo III in de bioscopen draaide. In Nederland ging de film in roulatie op 21 februari 2008 met Sylvester Stallone en Julie Benz in de hoofdrollen.

Voorafgaande waren er problemen over de titel van de film, deze werden onder andere genoemd:
Rambo IV: End of Peace
Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye
Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra
Rambo: First Blood Part IV
Rambo: To Hell and Back

Leeswaarschuwing: Onderstaande tekst bevat details over de inhoud of de afloop van het verhaal.
Het verhaal speelt zich af op de grens tussen Myanmar en Noord-Thailand. Vietnamveteraan John Rambo heeft lang in een afgezonderde levensstijl in Bangkok geleefd. Hij wordt echter ingehuurd door een groep christelijke zendelingen om hen te beschermen tijdens een humanitaire missie in Myanmar. Wanneer een aantal van de zendelingen wordt ontvoerd, raakt Rambo weer hevig in strijd verwikkeld met een groep huurlingen.

Rambo[a] is a 2008 American war action film co-written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. A sequel to Rambo III (1988), it is the fourth installment in the Rambo film series based on the character created by author David Morrell. Stallone stars as John Rambo, who leads a group of mercenaries into Burma to rescue Christian missionaries, who have been kidnapped by a local infantry unit. The film co-stars Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake La Botz, Maung Maung Khin, and Ken Howard. Rambo is dedicated to the memory of Richard Crenna (d. 2003), who had played Colonel Sam Trautman in the previou films.

The rights to the Rambo franchise were sold to Miramax Films in 1997 after Carolco Pictures went bankrupt. Miramax intended to produce a fourth film but Stallone was unmotivated to reprise the role. The rights were then sold to Nu Image and Millennium Films in 2005, who green-lit the film before the release of Rocky Balboa (2006). Filming began in Thailand, Mexico, and the United States in January 2007, and ended that May.
Rambo was theatrically released in the United States by Lionsgate Films and the Weinstein Company on January 25, 2008, and in Germany by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 14. It received mixed reviews, with praise aimed at Stallone’s direction and performance, action sequences, and musical score, but criticism for its plot, excessively graphic violence, and political commentary. At the box office, it grossed $113.2 million worldwide against a production budget between $47.5–50 million. The film was followed by Rambo: Last Blood, released in 2019.

During the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads his Burmese Army forces in a campaign of fear. His soldiers pillage settlements, sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teenage boys to be drafted, and hold women hostage to be raped as sex slaves.
Meanwhile, 20 years after the events in Afghanistan, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo lives in Thailand, making a living as a snake catcher and boatman. He is approached by a group of missionary doctors from Colorado, led by Michael Burnett and his fiancée Sarah Miller, for a job to ferry them up the Salween River into Burma. They are on a humanitarian mission to provide medical aid to a village inhabited by the Karen people. Rambo initially refuses multiple times to take the group, but Sarah convinces him to help them.
On the way, the boat is stopped by pirates who demand Sarah in exchange for passage. Rambo quickly kills them, shocking the group. He drops them off at their destination and leaves; on his way back to Thailand he destroys the pirates' boat while having flashbacks of the previous night's action. Shortly after the missionaries' arrival, Tint's forces raze the village and massacre the villagers, then capture Sarah, Michael, and other survivors.
Back in Thailand, Rambo is hired to transport mercenaries on a mission to rescue the missionaries. Rambo takes them to the drop-off point and offers to help, but his offer is rejected by team leader Lewis, a former SAS soldier.
Myint, a Karen rebel familiar with the area, leads the mercenaries to the village. As they survey the damage, a squad of Tint's soldiers return. The soldiers sadistically force a group of prisoners to navigate a minefield for their entertainment. Rambo arrives and kills the Burmese soldiers with his bow and arrow. Rambo joins the mercenaries, and they make their way to Tint's camp at night, where they stealthily rescue the surviving prisoners.
The following day, Tint and his soldiers pursue Rambo and the group. Rambo kills some of them by detonating an unexploded Tallboy bomb with a Claymore mine obtained from School Boy, the mercenaries' sniper. The pursuers fire mortars, injuring Lewis, and capture everyone except Rambo, Sarah, and School Boy. As the soldiers prepare to execute the captives, Rambo guns them down with an M2 Browning-equipped technical. The mercenaries rearm themselves and re-engage their pursuers. The Karen rebels, led by Myint, join the fight, eventually overwhelming Tint's soldiers and their naval forces. Two of the mercenaries, En-Joo and Diaz, are killed in the fight. His Tatmadaw forces wiped out, Tint attempts to flee, but Rambo intercepts and disembowels him.
In the aftermath, Rambo, inspired by Sarah's words, returns to the United States to visit his father at his home in Bowie, Arizona.

Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo, a hardened Vietnam War Commando now residing in Thailand
Julie Benz as Sarah Miller, Dr. Burnett's fiancée and a member of a missionary team
Paul Schulze as Dr. Michael Burnett, the leader of a missionary team heading into Burma
Matthew Marsden as "School Boy", the youngest soldier on Lewis's team who is a trained sniper
Graham McTavish as Lewis, an ex-SAS soldier now leading a merc outfit
Tim Kang as En-Joo, a mercenary on Lewis's team
Rey Gallegos as Diaz, a mercenary on Lewis's team
Jake La Botz as Reese, a mercenary on Lewis's team with a knack for singing
Maung Maung Khin as Major Pa Tee Tint, the murderous commanding officer of the SPDC in the Karen region
Ken Howard as Father Arthur Marsh, the church pastor who Bennett's team report to
Supakorn Kitsuwon as Myint, a Karen rebel leading the mercs to the missionaries
Aung Aay Noi as Lieutenant Aye, Tint's Second-in-Command
Sornram Patchimtasanakarn as Tha, a young child who is a tracker for Myint

The film was an independent production between Nu Image and Emmett/Furla Films for Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH.[10] It was green-lit and sold before Rocky Balboa was released.[11] In between the making of the third and fourth films in the Rambo franchise, the films' original producer, Carolco Pictures, went out of business. In 1997, Miramax purchased the Rambo franchise.[12] The following year, Miramax subsidiary Dimension Films intended to make another film, and a writer was hired to write the script, but attempts to make it were deterred by Stallone, who had stated that he no longer wanted to make action movies.[13] In 2005, the studio sold those rights to Millennium Films and Nu Image.[12]
Stallone had stated that part of the reason that it took so long to produce a fourth film was due to a lack of a compelling story that motivated him to return to the role.[14] An early idea was to have Rambo travel to Mexico to rescue a kidnapped young girl.[15] Stallone thought it was "good", however, he felt the idea lacked the "essence of Rambo", still wanting the character to be a "lost man wandering the world".[16] The premise would later be used for Rambo: Last Blood (2019). Stallone got the idea to set the film in Burma from the United Nations, which he later pitched to producers.[17]
The producers found the idea compelling after visiting Karen refugee camps.[18] Maung Maung Khin is a former Karen freedom fighter and stated that if he accepted the role of the film's villain, there was a chance some of his family would have been incarcerated in Burma, but accepted the role regardless, feeling that bringing awareness of the Saffron Revolution was important.[19]
Pre-production
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A different director was originally attached to direct the film but left due to creative disagreements.[20] Stallone was reluctant to direct the film due to not being prepared nor having a vision for the film[21] but later became excited when he came up with the idea of "what if the film was directed by Rambo? What if the film had his personality?"[22] Graham McTavish later echoed this idea, stating, "In many ways, Rambo directed the movie."[23] Paul Schulze stated that there were rewrites by Stallone nearly every morning.[24] The film had a production crew of 560 people, including 450 Thai crew members, and over 80 foreign members from Australia, America, Canada, Myanmar and the United Kingdom.[25]
Filming
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Stallone stated that due to the small production budget the only way to make the film memorable was to make it graphically violent. He said "we were all sitting around in looking at the small production budget. Then I said 'Hey, fake blood is cheap, let's make it all-out bloody.'" Filming started on January 22, 2007, and ended on May 4, 2007. It was shot in Chiang Mai, Thailand as well as in Mexico and the United States in Arizona and California. While filming near Myanmar, Stallone and the rest of the crew narrowly avoided being shot by the Myanmar military. Stallone described Burma as a "hellhole". He said, "We had shots fired above our heads" and that he "witnessed survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off."[26]
Post-production
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John Rambo was the original working title for the film but was changed in the US because Stallone thought that audiences might think that this is the final film in the Rambo series, due to the then recently released Rocky Balboa (2006), which was not his original intent. In many other countries, the title John Rambo is used because the first Rambo film was known as Rambo in those countries. The film premiered on US television as Rambo, but the title sequence referred to it as John Rambo.
On October 12, 2007, Lionsgate Films announced that the film title was being changed to Rambo: To Hell and Back. After some negative feedback from the online community, Stallone spoke with Harry Knowles[27] and said:
Lionsgate jumped the gun on this. I just was thinking that the title John Rambo was derivative of Rocky Balboa and might give people the idea that this is the last Rambo film, and I don't necessarily feel that it will be. He's definitely a superb athlete, there's no reason he can't continue onto another adventure. Like John Wayne with The Searchers.