John
Rambo’s former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to
lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman’s request
that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped
and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and
allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to
rescue Trautman from Zaysen.