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First Blood
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Average Rating: 3
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Year: 1982
Genre: Action / Drama
Trailer: Trailer 1
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Sylvester Stallone,
Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, David Caruso
It's easy to forget that this Spartan, violent film, which begat the Rambo series, was such a big hit in 1982 because it was a good movie. Green Beret vet John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into the wrong small town to find a fellow 'Nam buddy and gets the living heck kicked out of him by the local law enforcement (led by Brian Dennehy). The vet strikes back the only way he knows how, leading to a visceral, if unrealistic, flight and fight through the local mountains. Based on the 1972 novel by David Morrell, this film saved Stallone's then-foundering career and the Rambo character became the inspiration for countless political cartoons. But this film is Deliverance without the moral ambiguity.
Source: Keith Simanton (Amazon.com)
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