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Watch: First Blood 1982 123movies, Full Movie Online – John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but what Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested. As he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo’s commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff’s department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand..
Plot: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.
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**_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 sheriff (Brian Dennehy) tries to steer Rambo out of town and winds up arresting him. Big mistake because Rambo is an ex-Green beret, a virtual one-man-army, who takes on both the police and the National Guard using jungle warfare tactics.

“First Blood” (1982) is an action/adventure of the first order. It’s easy to lose sight of this in light of the two comic book sequels that made a caricature of John Rambo: “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (1985) and “Rambo III” (1988). Thankfully, the series made up for it with the outstanding “Rambo” in 2008, which is grim, gritty and deep.

The Great Northwest locations are picturesque, albeit drizzly and dreary, while Dennehy is perfect as the arrogant, pushy sheriff. He essentially plays the same role in the Western “Silverado” (1985) albeit his character in that film is even worse.

Stallone is in his physically prime here, although he’s not quite as bulked-up as in the two sequels. His waist is only about 27-28 inches and his chest isn’t all that big, although his arms and shoulders are certainly impressive. Anyway, one good byproduct of seeing “First Blood” is that it’ll inspire guys to get back in shape or get in better shape.

Stallone is outstanding in the role of Rambo. He doesn’t have many lines; most of his acting is non-verbal. At the end Rambo finally lets out all his pent-up rage by screaming out: “Over there (in Vietnam) I was in charge of million dollar equipment, over here I can’t even hold a job PARKING CAAAARRRRRRSSSSS!!!”

I’m not normally into DVD commentaries and rarely blow the time to listen to them, but the one featured on the Special Edition DVD by writer David Morrell is very worthwhile. Morrell talks the entire 90-minute length of the film and offers a wealth of information, like the differences between the film and his novel, how the movie set many precedents in the action/adventure genre, the incredible way he came up with the name Rambo, the 3-Act story structure of motion pictures, etc. Make no mistake, David Morrell is a genius.

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen “First Blood.” The film has such a captivating anointing you’ll be spellbound from start to finish every time. If you’re a sucker for lost-in-the-woods/survival pictures “First Blood” is a must.

The film runs 1 hour, 33 minutes, and was shot in beautiful Hope and Golden Ears Provincial Park, British Columbia.

GRADE: A

Sylvester 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 escorted out of town by the sheriff “Will Teasle” (Brian Dennehy), who takes him for a vagrant. When he tries to come back into town, he is arrested and that sets off a chain of events that ends up pitting him against not just a rather brutal collection of local law enforcement, but ultimately the pretty useless national guard and his old CO “Trautman” (Richard Crenna). There is certainly a serious message here. This man has served his country at no small risk to himself, he even has a Congressional Medal of Honour, but has been pretty much abandoned by his government. We learn fairly early on that he has clearly been traumatised by his wartime experiences and the hostile behaviour of the local cops serves to rekindle his serious ninja skills in self-defence that quickly – though reluctantly – became self-offence. The action scenes set amongst the cold, wet and dense forest are tautly directed and quite compelling to watch, but I am afraid the acting is pretty poor. Crenna is about as wooden as one of the stakes “Rambo” uses to impale his pursuers, and the “Teasle” character just doesn’t add up. We start the film with him behaving in a friendly and neighbourly way as might befit a local policeman, but after the most minimal exposure to his visitor, he turns into a violently obsessed man. Why? There is no backstory to this – and as the manhunt proceeds, and concludes, the story itself makes less and less sense. It’s quite short and the first half is good, but afterwards it just slips into the ridiculous with an ending full of impressive pyrotechnics but little more substantial than a warning that we ought to expect a sequel.

A taut exercise in suspense that bears little relation to its silly sequels…
Surprise, a “Rambo” movie that tries to say something profound about the plight of its main character and his mental state. For the most part it succeeds. Not for this movie the ridiculously oiled pectorals of part II, where Rambo is transformed into a grunting, soul-less killing machine. He actually begins the movie as a fairly nice chap, someone we can sympathise with, and it’s his unnecessarily rough treatment at the hands of small-town sheriff Dennehey and his crew that is likely to shift audience sympathies firmly in the direction of the ‘misunderstood’ Vietnam vet.

Here, Rambo is also a character who is reluctant to kill unless he absolutely has to. A far cry from the eventual homicidal maniac he was to become, who is seemingly responsible for more death than World Wars 1 & 2 combined. So, to those expecting bucketloads of gore and senseless killing, you’d probably be better off watching the news. “First Blood” is actually more akin to those ‘survival in the wilderness’ programs you might see on the Discovery Channel; with Rambo having to rely more on guile and cunning than brawn and an M-16 to get him out of tricky situations.

That’s not to imply that this is boring. Far from it. Director Kotcheff shows a keen awareness of pace, it’s never by any means certain that Rambo will survive (if you discount the other films, of course!) and the supporting characters are all wonderfully unsympathetic. Even Trautmann, Rambo’s supposed mentor, has a touch of the villain about him for being complicit in the ultimate dehumanisation of Rambo during the war. By far the best character here is played by Dennehey; always watchable, but Stallone too is good; nicely restrained, more “Cop Land” than “Cobra”

Not an action film as such, it sits better as suspense. In that sense, it does exactly what it says on the tin; rendering John Rambo a far more interesting character here than his incarnation in the other two films. That is basically just wet-dream material for inadequate, spotty faced adolescent boys everywhere. This Rambo is recognisably human. Having said that, neither should you view expecting a solemn Vietnam protest movie in the vein of “Platoon” or “The Deer Hunter”. It’s different in tone and style to the both of those movies, but in my view at least, is better than either of them.

Great picture
Greetings from Lithuania.

“First Blood” (1982) is a great picture. Saw it 5 or six times, most of them when i was 10-15 years old, i owned a VHS. Now revisiting after 13 years, i found one interesting aspect of this picture. Althrough “Rambo” associates with action, physical force and weapons, “First Blood” isn’t about the action at all. Action in this movie is never forced, it is logical consequence of the actions. Later movies became super action flicks, but this was always more about the character – it’s actually a superb character study.

Sylvester Stallone shines in one of his best acting works, creating unforgettable character. 32 years have past since this movie saw a day light, and it still looks great and most important feels real. And the ending – still one of the most powerful speeches in cinema, Stallone is absolutely brilliant in there.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 15000000
Revenue 125212904
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director Ted Kotcheff
Writer David Morrell, Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (4 channels)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex, Panavision C-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex-X, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Alpha Cine Service, Vancouver, Canada (location lab), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,545 m (Sweden), 2,580 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247, 250T 5293)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm