First Blood | | Cast : | Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy | | Director : | Ted Kotcheff | | Studio : | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 22, 1982 | | DVD Released Date : | November 23, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | Rambo: a one man war! | Content
 | Chances are you've heard of John Rambo. But, if you were living under a rock or born in the past couple years, you might not be aware of him. Rambo was an action adventure character that made his first appearance in this film, FIRST BLOOD. But, beyond his screen appearances, Rambo has become a part of the world's pop culture. From cartoons to video games or from playground activity to Presidential speeches, John is there.
The film introduces John as a Viet Nam vet who has outlived everyone from his battalion. And after another empty reunion in the Pacific Northwest, Sherrif Will Teasle mistreats him. He is hassled and arrested by Teasle's men but when they unintentionally dig out Viet Nam memories, John escapes to the mountains. Everyone, including the National Guard pursues him but now they are on John's territory, all of his guerrilla warfare training is put to use. The only hope for the town comes with the arrival of Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman. What was once a peaceful little town quickly becomes a war zone...
Sylester Stallone created the role of Rambo and it is easily one of his best roles. Rambo is physically adept while speech is usually monosyllabic. This role requires a lot of stunt work and it is apparent that Stallone did much of his own impressive work. Brian Dennehy plays the power hungry sheriff that just doesn't know when to quit. Dennehy is wonderfully hateable always ready to flash his grin, a grin you'd want to wipe off his face. Richard Crenna plays Trautman whose role is limited to plot exposition and one final scene as a father figure to John. In the novel the film was based on, Trautman kills Rambo at the end. But, that would not allow for sequels! Rambo would appear in two more films to date, both of a different tone then this dark offering. FIRST BLOOD is a great action film that launched a new genre.
This Special Edition DVD has an amazing audio transfer. The DTS can challenge even the best sound systems! Also, the widescreen video transfer is crisp and beautiful, capturing the Pacific Northwest (Actually filmed in Canada). There is a new documentary looking back twenty years to the stories creation as well as a running commentary. These are both welcome additions, but they don't carry the power of the film. This DVD was also made available in the Rambo Trilogy boxset.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | Rambo: First Blood Ultimate Edition | Content
| This movie is excellent; thats why I ordered it. It was in excellent condition, but I don''t know why it wouldn't be if I oredered it brand new direct from Amazon. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 22, 2005 | | Summary | John Rambo Is Not A Very Articulate Guy!!!! | Content
| This movie stars Sylvester Stallone who plays John Rambo , a former Green Beret in Vietnam but now a drifter. For some reason Mr. Rambo thinks he can walk into any town carrying a 12 inch hunting knife on his person without being questioned by the local authorities.Sadly , this does happen and Mr. Rambo thinks he can relive the Vietnam War and maybe win this time. I give a free set of Steak Knives to anybody who can understand his final speech to Richard Crenna!!!!5 stars to Hollywood who somehow , yet again, manage to portray Fantasy as Reality. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 08, 2005 | | Summary | First Blood | Content
| John J Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) a vietnam veteran gets arrested by a small-town cop for vagrancy, after his escape from the jail, he gets on a motorbike and heads off to the nearby jungle, where the cops are chasing him and he is a 'one man army'. This is probably the best of the 3 rambo movies, even though they are all great. If you are a fan of 80's action movies or sylvester stallone, check this movie out. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 12, 2005 | | Summary | Don't bet with a peaceful man! | Content
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This film seen under the serene gaze of more than twenty years is the expected reaction of so many frustrations, disillusions born under the bad sign of Vietnam. In those ages the state of abandon and apathy in all the country had almost a quarter of century. From the Kennedy affair till the last eighties a chain of successive scandals, politic corruption and internal affairs of any issue literally invaded every inch of ink of the principal headlines of the written press and other mediums.
In this state of things, the depressed spirit was analyzed by the merchandisers and Rocky was the first punch to raise the self stem of the mass media. Songs as Born in the USA, for instance, made the same role. Then Rambo was born as a mythological figure. A hero born precisely from the ashes who lived the hell and become a machine human war. And the rest is story. The film obviously sympathizes with John Rambo as the peaceful man who simply wants to forget his job and remake a new life, but the ancestral codes and the old fashioned mind of the law bureaucracy will raise the hidden demons.
Despite the picture has aged, it's a fundamental piece in those turbulent ages and it worked out perfectly as cathartic device. Excellent action sequences.
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