Who killed Rambo?
As originally filmed, Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo commits suicide during a climactic standoff with Colonel Trautman, after the colonel refuses to kill Rambo in cold blood. Kotcheff recently talked to EW about the dark ending. The right wing thought [Vietnam veterans] were a bunch of losers. Rambo, now surrounded by the police, rages about the horrors of war, and the difficulties he has faced adapting to civilian life. Breaking down, he then weeps as he recounts a particularly gruesome story about witnessing his friend Joseph Danforth dying.