

First Blood
This time he's fighting for his life.
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.
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7.5/10
7,183 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $15M
- Box office
- $125.2M
- Language
- English
- prison
- guerrilla warfare
- dying and death
- vietnam war
- vietnam veteran
- hero
- vietnam
- police brutality
- sheriff
- escape
- police
- gun
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Produced in
United States of America, Netherlands Antilles
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Theatrical18 Dec 1982
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR22 Oct 1982
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1516 Dec 1982
- Theatrical (limited)15Re-Release24 Jun 2022
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+3 Dec 1982
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical4 Nov 1982
BrazilBR
- Theatrical146 Nov 1982
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical24 Feb 1983
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)15+Digitally restored3 Aug 2023
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical158 Apr 1983
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-184 Feb 1983
FranceFR
- Theatrical162 Mar 1983
- TVCStar5 Nov 2025
- TVRTL914 Feb 2026
- TVCStar21 Oct 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical166 Jan 1983
Frequently asked questions
First Blood was released on 22 October 1982.
Audience reviews
5- J9/10
John Chard
3/18/2019
It 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 Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney and Jack Starrett. Cinematography is by Andrew Laszlo and the music scored by Jerry Goldsmith. Locations for the shoot were in Britis…
- W9/10
Wuchak
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 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 …
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
6/28/2022
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…
- G10/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
Am 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 bargained for. it was more dramatic, it had more character, and had a better story than just about anything that followed. And it worked as a survivalist action movie …
- M8/10
MovieGuys
7/1/2026
"First Blood" is the only "Rambo" film that warrants genuine attention. The Vietnam War was hardly a distant memory when this film was made. Its message of social isolation and alienation from mainstream society, combined with conflict trauma that makes moving on difficult to impossible, no doubt resonates with veterans of that unpopular war. This is a surprisingly sophisticated action film when viewed from this p…
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