Story Line
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
“This time he's fighting for his life.”
Top Cast
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
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Rating
7.5/ 10
Release Date
1982-10-22
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
ActionAdventureThrillerWar
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Rambo Collection
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User Reviews (4)
John Chard
9/10
•3/18/2019It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. It's all in the past now.
First Blood is directed by Ted Kotcheff and adapted by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim and Sylvester Stallone, from the novel written by David Morrell. It stars Stallone, Brian De...
Wuchak
9/10
•5/2/2020**_Action/adventure masterpiece about a one-man-army_**
Vietnam vet John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) drifts into a Rocky Mountain town looking for a war buddy, only to learn that he died due to exposure to Agent Orange the prior summer. The town's ...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•6/28/2022Sylvester Stallone Is "John Rambo", a Vietnam War veteran who is shocked to learn that the only other survivor from his crack team of Green Berets has died of a pretty pernicious cancer. He wanders aimlessly looking for a cheeseburger when he is esco...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/12/2023Am I the only one that thought that Rambo was supposed to be Native American? Or at least partially so?
Anywho... this is NOTHING like the sequels. The basic plot was that a small town tries to bully a Vietnam Vet and gets a little more than they ...