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  • Rambo giving the mercenaries (who were about to hightail the mission for believing that the missionaries are probably dead) a Dare to Be Badass speech while aiming his arrow inches from Lewis's face:
    Rambo: You boys wanna shoot? Now's the time... There isn't one of us who doesn't want to be someplace else... but this is what we do. Who we are... Live for nothing, or die for something... Your call.
    • It helped a lot that the Burmese soldiers were forcing the prisoners to walk over a minefield (which they had just created for this very purpose) as part of a sick betting game, and that the whole scene was played out in a burnt-out Karen village full of rotting corpses — including the severed head of a child impaled on a stick.
    • More of a heartwarming moment, but a close-up of Rambo’s wrist during the scene has Sarah’s necklace wrapped around it; that girl really brought out the best in him.
  • How about Rambo brilliantly wiping out a horde of the Burmese soldiers and their dogs by using a claymore mine and a World War II-era Tallboy Bomb?
  • Not to mention when the boat is raided by pirates. Rambo tries to be diplomatic, but when they don't relent, he pre-empts them and blows a boatload of them away. When one of the missionaries he's got onboard complains, Rambo puts him in his place: "They would have raped her fifty times... and cut your fucking heads off! Who are you!? Who are any of you!?"
  • Schoolboy gets his own when he annihilates the two soldiers on the road with his M82, saving Rambo and Sarah.
  • And the scene where he grabs a Burmese soldier from behind and fucking rips out his throat with his bare hands!
  • Rambo sneaking up on a Burmese soldier... and beheading him with one swing of his machete.
    • Some people who saw the scene actually thought he punched off the guy’s head.
  • The pacifist missionary finally takes action and beats a soldier to death with a rock, face to face.
    • Even before that, when Lewis's leg gets shredded, he and his fellow missionaries, who are certified doctors, work to treat the leg.
    • Points also for being willing to stand up to the mercenaries if it meant for Sarah to be safe.
  • Rambo, aka "The Fucking Boatman", popping out of nowhere and killing Burmese soldiers with rapid arrowing.
    Lewis: Where did you learn to kill like that?!
  • Lewis, the jerkass, ex-SAS leader of the mercenaries gets a CMOA after he and his group get captured and beaten by Tint and his men when he proceeds to scream at and insult Tint to his face, calls him a “gutless fuck” and a “ladyboy cunt”, and goads him into beating him, protecting the rest from any more abuse. Then he kills several of Tint’s men with a rifle despite being handicapped from a landmine injury ... and Tint having jammed a bamboo staff in his wound!!
  • The climax where the Burmese Army finally gets a taste of their own medicine.
  • Rambo laying waste to the Burmese forces with a .50 caliber machine gun. The highlight of the battle: Rambo getting shot in the shoulder and taking a moment to secure his footing when he sees a truck full of Burmese reinforcements coming down the road. Cue Rambo jumping up, getting back behind the gun, and unloading it at the truck with the bullets chopping down the trees that stand between him and the truck and turning at least one of the soldiers into a human volcano and absolutely slaughtering the rest.
  • Rambo gutting the villain in the only scene where they meet eye to eye.
  • While the fourth film is banned from being distributed in Burma for its honest portrayal of the Burmese military's sickening brutality towards helpless ethnic minorities, bootleg copies of the film's DVD are extremely popular amongst the Karen Rebel army, which fights the Burmese military's tyranny. Rambo's signature quote from the film, "Live For Nothing, Or Die For Something," has become a morale-lifting battle-cry amongst the Karen Warriors — a point which Stallone himself has said to be "one of my proudest moments in cinema."

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