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Film · 1982 · Action thriller
First Blood
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
1982
★ 4.7 editorial score
Before the sequels turned him into a cartoon, Rambo was a homeless veteran the police would not leave alone: Ted Kotcheff shot the Pacific Northwest cold and wet, and Stallone barely speaks.
“Sylvester Stallone plays John Rambo, a former Green Beret who wanders into a tiny town in the Northwest, is mistreated by the sheriff, and spends the rest of the movie getting even...Mr. Stallone's Rambo isn't a cold-blooded killer. He's almost a Boy Scout, and a phenomenal Boy Scout at that. "First Blood" concentrates not on revenge, not on unmotivated mayhem, but on survival in the wilderness.”
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1982Depicts 1980s
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