Rambo First Blood Part I
Vietnam veteran and drifter J J. Rambo accidentally encounters the intolerance and brutality of the local sheriff, and now he must rely on his combat and survival senses against the abusive law enforcement officer.
3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
3 April 1953, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
February 4, 1947 in Brierfield, Lancashire, England, UK
2 November 1936, Refugio, Texas, USA
August 15, 2012
a powerful, complex and captivating film that serves as a blockbuster action film and a serious drama
February 06, 2010
As befits a story of internal conflict, Ted Kotcheff lays out the action in an adroit style derived from Anthony Mann
March 01, 2007
Director Ted Kotcheff has all sorts of trouble with this mess, aside from credibility.
May 13, 2008
...does get loonier as it goes along, yet for a while it's actually a mournful and sobering action-movie treatment of postwar stress.
October 23, 2004
Sylvester Stallone is one of the great physical actors in the movies, with a gift for throwing himself so fearlessly into an action scene that we can't understand why somebody doesn't really get hurt.
March 01, 2007
This action film hangs on an interesting reversal, taking the crazed-killer-in-the-woods theme from Friday the 13th and turning it inside out-- the psychopath is now our hero, a maladjusted ex-Green Beret played by Sylvester Stallone.
August 30, 2004
First Blood is ragged and flashy; it ought to be a big success with audiences that value action for its own sake.
January 26, 2006
As a Stallone vehicle this is sleek, slick and not unexciting, but crassly castrates the David Morrell novel on which it is based.
December 14, 2010
First and most popular Rambo; and yes, bloody.
April 30, 2009
The darker tone, somber subtext, and generally non-exploitative violence allow viewers to enjoy the film not only as an action/thriller but as something with a degree of intelligence and substance.
June 14, 2008
The entryway to the disturbed psychological headspace of a single man, one bent evermore on survival, instinct trumping all.
