Sylvester Stallone, whose latest Rambo film takes him to fight baddies in Burma, today ripped into the junta's handling of a devastating cyclone.

Stallone hoped that both the cyclone, which left more than 60,000 people dead or missing, and his latest Rambo film would intensify pressure on Burma's ruling generals.

The cyclone "made clear how unprepared Myanmarese (Burmese) were and how much the military government is ignoring them and not supporting them", Stallone told reporters in Tokyo as he promoted the latest Rambo film.