Rambo First Blood Part I
Who has drawn the first blood? A troubled and misunderstood Vietnam veteran or tyrannical sheriff and his deputies? either way Rambo must learn to survive on his own.
3 April 1953, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 April 1949, New York, USA
30 November 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1955, Waverly, Iowa, USA
7 January 1956, Forest Hills, New York, USA
9 January 1941, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
8 August 1962, Toledo, Ohio, USA
February 4, 1947 in Brierfield, Lancashire, England, UK
6 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
24 January 1918, Alberta, Canada
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
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.
June 14, 2008
The entryway to the disturbed psychological headspace of a single man, one bent evermore on survival, instinct trumping all.
August 15, 2012
a powerful, complex and captivating film that serves as a blockbuster action film and a serious drama
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.
March 01, 2007
Director Ted Kotcheff has all sorts of trouble with this mess, aside from credibility.
December 14, 2010
First and most popular Rambo; and yes, bloody.
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.
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.
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.
