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First Blood
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
R
1982
1h 33m
Action
,
Adventure
,
and more
7.7
86%
86%
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A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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Cast of First Blood
Sylvester Stallone
John Rambo
Richard Crenna
Col. Samuel Trautman
Brian Dennehy
Hope Sheriff Will Teasle
Bill McKinney
State Police Capt. Dave Kern
Jack Starrett
Deputy Sgt. Arthur Galt
Michael Talbott
Deputy Balford
Chris Mulkey
Deputy Ward
John McLiam
Orval the Dog Man
Alf Humphreys
Deputy Lester
David Caruso
Deputy Mitch
David L. Crowley
Deputy Shingleton
Don MacKay
Preston
Charles A. Tamburro
Helicopter pilot
David Petersen
Trooper
Craig Huston
Radio operator
Patrick Stack
Lt. Morgen
Stephen E. Miller
Guardsman #1
Raimund Stamm
Guardsman #2
Robert Metcalfe
Guardsman #3
Stephen Dimopoulos
Guardsman #4
Bruce Greenwood
Guardsman #5
Earl Klein
Guardsman #6
Danny Wozna
Boy
Peter Lonstrup
Attendant
Mike Winlaw
TV Reporter
Donald Adams
Guard C.O.
David Menzies
Miner
Frank Richter
Man on Street #1
Grahman L. Galativk
Man on Street #2
Ian Hutchinson
Man on Street #3
Amy Alexander
Woman on Street
Gary Hetherington
Hunter
Alex Kliner
Hunter
R.G. Miller
Hunter
Bruce Paul Barbour
Robert A. Cathcart (uncredited)
Stephen Chang
VC Commander (uncredited)
Suzee Pai
Vietnamese Prostitute (uncredited)
Robert Prowse
Soldier (uncredited)
Jack Rigg
Bobby - The Base Camp Radio Operator (uncredited)
Helene Udy
Small Girl (uncredited)
First Blood Ratings & Reviews
Sean Chandler Talks About
Sean Chandler
While the sequels may have tarnished it's reputation, Rambo's original adventure is a great action-thriller and character study.
FanboyNation.com
Sean Mulvihill
There's no trace of the Rambo that would become the symbol of American militaristic excess of the '80s in First Blood.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
First Blood is ragged and flashy; it ought to be a big success with audiences that value action for its own sake.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The first and best of the franchise.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
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.
Common Sense Media
Charles Cassady
First and most popular Rambo; and yes, bloody.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
The character of John Rambo is so identified with Stallone that it's amusing to note how many actors were considered for the role, including Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
a powerful, complex and captivating film that serves as a blockbuster action film and a serious drama
Newhouse News Service
Richard Freedman
Considerably "less thoughtful than, say, Coming Home on a similar subject, First Blood so revels In sadism that Its high-minded pretenses are quickly washed away in blood -- first, last and always.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Pushed-to-the-edge survivalist John Rambo raised the bar significantly for action heroes.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...does get loonier as it goes along, yet for a while it's actually a mournful and sobering action-movie treatment of postwar stress.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
There's another appeal in Rambo. Simplicity. Successful action justifies all.
UGO
Keith Uhlich
The entryway to the disturbed psychological headspace of a single man, one bent evermore on survival, instinct trumping all.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
George Anderson
As a combination survival and action film, 'First Blood' delivers enough excitement to please fans of this sort of thing, although it must settle logically for a less than wholly satisfying ending.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
As befits a story of internal conflict, Ted Kotcheff lays out the action in an adroit style derived from Anthony Mann
Rolling Stone
Michael Sragow
An ambitious, bloody, talented but pulpy mess.
Stranger Song
Rob Humanick
Now that's ballsy.
Variety
Director Ted Kotcheff has all sorts of trouble with this mess, aside from credibility.
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