John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is a Vietnam Veteran searching for life back in USA after seeing horrors of war in Vietnam. He searches for an old war buddy just to find that he died from cancer. He now knows his whole platoon has died. Yet, he finds a sadistic sheriff who seems to go out of his way to make his life miserable. The Sheriff arrests him and shortly afterwards Rambo escapes and the battle of wills begins for the both of them. The sheriff starts a search for the escaped John Rambo but he shortly finds out that the skills that Rambo learned in Vietnam far surpass him and his deputies and they find themselves not the hunters anymore but the hunted.