John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by an abusive law enforcement officer, the first blood has been drawn now Rambo is about to retaliate.
February 4, 1947 in Brierfield, Lancashire, England, UK
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3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
12 September 1931, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
12 August 1956, Noranda, Québec, Canada
6 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
9 January 1941, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
2 November 1936, Refugio, Texas, USA
8 August 1962, Toledo, Ohio, USA
7 January 1956, Forest Hills, New York, USA
22 April 1949, New York, USA
August 15, 2012
a powerful, complex and captivating film that serves as a blockbuster action film and a serious drama
March 01, 2007
Director Ted Kotcheff has all sorts of trouble with this mess, aside from credibility.
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.
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.
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.
June 14, 2008
The entryway to the disturbed psychological headspace of a single man, one bent evermore on survival, instinct trumping all.
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.
February 06, 2010
As befits a story of internal conflict, Ted Kotcheff lays out the action in an adroit style derived from Anthony Mann
December 14, 2010
First and most popular Rambo; and yes, bloody.
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.
