First Blood (1982) is the best in the Rambo series, it is my personal number 1 favorite action film in the action genre. The best Rambo action movie in the genre that started one men army action movies. I am a huge Rambo fan and I love John Rambo character. I love First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo to death. I love them so much it is my favorite film series. I love First Blood to death this is my personal favorite action film. "First Blood" doesn't deal with CGI nor does it deal with special effects. It deals or tries to deal really hard on what is real. I love Rambo movie this is my personal favorite film series franchise.This is my comic book hero this is my childhood movie the movie I grew up with it. This is the best movie ever my all time favorite action movie. It is the best of the best of all time. Sylvester Stallone co-write the script and started and the men can act, he is an action hero on screen in my opinion his best film. Mine is Rambo action hero, I grew up watching Rambo movies on VHS I hardly find it in the video store as a kid. I love Rambo's Survival Knife he rally's on his knife. I love that John Rambo is a human been who want's just to eat in a town, but his pushed to far from corrupt police officers and he is forced to fight back. I love First Blood and it is the best one so yeas it is my personal favorite action film. Great acting from Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna. I love Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy) and that he is a Korean war veteran and not some dumb Sherrif who can't handle nothing. Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle was excellent bad guy he performs his character well, he doesn't give up I love that in the film. Rambo was a veteran of the Vietnam War, which gained a lot of attention and not Korean War: a war which most people had all-but-completely-forgotten at this point in time. I love Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) I love the character and his acting performance. I love those three characters so much. First Blood remains the best in the series it doesn't deal with CGI or special effects everything is for real and it deals what is real. Rambo is a human been not a machine and he bleeds, he is hurt, he doesn't kill anyone. Beautiful score from Jerry Goldsmith. It remains a classic and the best one in the series. I love how Rambo doesn't kill anyone, tough he was trained to kill in Vietnam. Rambo fighting skills from Viatnam are on the test in the woods in which Guards are hunting him, while he hunts them, setting those booby traps and puts police officers in the painful situations. Rambo climbs the wall of mountain and is been pursued by a helicopter and the police officer becomes the killer and try's to shoot Rambo with a riffle. Rambo jumps and hangs him self on the tree. That jump was for real and Sylvester Stallone really performed it. John Rambo uses M60 machine gun and shoot up various stores in town including police station destroys the gun store and gas station. Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna both acted opposite Sylvester Stallone and they both acted well.First Blood is the best in the series it was beautiful directed from Ted Kotcheff and it was beautiful music score from Jerry Goldsmith and a beautiful song played on the end It's a Long Road Music by Jerry Goldsmith. 10/10 Grade: Bad-Ass Seal Of Approval My personal favorite action movie of all time.

First Rambo movie was also the best. Not an over the top action flick, but more of an emotional thriller(that also still has some cool action). Whoever has seen it knows and who hasn't, should find out how different it probably is from what they expected!

One of the best action films ever. Despite what people remember the character of Rambo as, the original film is a proper post-Vietnam thriller, reflecting the anxiety and conflict felt in the US after the war in the late '70s. It's also way ahead of its time - even today you'd see some backlash if a film was made where the police were essentially the villains. Gritty and emotional, First Blood deserves to be separated from the silliness the Rambo series eventually become.

Sylvester Stallone stars as John Rambo: a lonely, alienated, and troubled Vietnam vet just trying to move on with his life until he gets unlawfully provoked over a misunderstanding, and finds himself in a war against a sheriff's department and the national guard. The fight doesn't seem fair, mostly because Rambo is outnumbered, but all bets are off since he's a former Green Beret, and he's had a really hard time moving on with his life. Unlike the sequels, this one is (for the majority of the run time) more of a dramatic survival story and not a balls-out action film. I really loved the focus on stealth and guerrilla tactics over pure brute force. It's a great character study with focus on vet's rights, PTSD, and intolerance. It does get kinda preachy, but nevertheless is still very compelling and gripping. Sylvester Stallone is wonderful. He shows off his action skills, and he's great as expected, but where things really shine is with the character and the acting. The action is a main part of who he is, but he's still a flawed and rounded character. Stallone really has to act here at times too, delivering what's still the most dramatic monologue of his career that actually sees him breakdown in tears. It's not often you see something like this, much less have it actually be really powerful and moving. Bravo. For supporters, we get a young David Caruso that's kinda fun to watch, but the main support that really holds the film up is with Brian Dennehy as the determined narrow minded sheriff and Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor- perhaps the only one capable of bringing the senseless conflict to an end. Both are great, and this is some of their best work. You sort of sympathize with the sheriff a bit, but probably not as much as you should. The film really paints it as Rambo good, everyone else bad, and that's a shame that they didn't go for a bit more complexity or moral ambiguity in that area. Things fare better with Crenna's character, but he too could have been a tad more developed. That's really my only major issue here: the film is a bit too one sided, and towards the end, things just kinda start crumbling. I get how Rambo said that if they kept pushing he'd really ramp it up, but when this all happens it just took me out of it all somewhat, and seemed a bit inconsistent. Fortunately things don't crap out too much, and the film does conclude pretty satisfactorily. It's just the lead up to the climax where it has its stumble. The film is well shot, the locations are great, there's pretty strong direction, neat ideas, and, probably most effective next to the acting, we get Jerry Goldsmith's absolutely thrilling and brilliant score. I still get chills every time I hear the opening notes to the main theme. EVERY time. Definitely check this one out.