First Blood (Special Edition) [VHS]
by Ted Kotcheff
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Actor: Bill McKinney, Brian Dennehy, Jack Starrett, Richard Crenna, Sylvester StalloneDirector: Ted Kotcheff
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Producer: Andrew G. Vajna
Producer: Buzz Feitshans
Producer: Herb Nanas
Writer: David Morrell
Writer: Michael Kozoll
Writer: William Sackheim
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 2002-05-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Studio: Live / Artisan
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Movie Review: First foray
Summary: 5 Stars
First Blood was Slyvester Stallone's first entry into the Vietnam war vet genre. It was note worthy for many reason's. Championing the need to address Vietnam vet problems in a return to society, reducing the intro to the heroes character & leaving the body of the film for the confrontations, scenes well done such as the escape, the hideaway, the sheriff's station & the shooting done around the town of Hope not to mention the great scenes filmed of the Canadian wilderness.
John Rambo is a Vietnam vet that can't find a decent job & isn't sure why (as he states "in the field I was in charge of millions of dollars worth of equiptment). Traveling into the northwest to visit an old army buddy he discovers the buddy died from Cancer (agent orange here). Wondering through Hope, Oregon Rambo meets the local Sheriff. He & his office do not like long hair & outta work bums. In other words if you look incompetent, smell incompetent & get tagged incompetent by this power fed country boy. You are open game. He is after all the law & the law overrules all.
The target here though is a Green Beret. One of the most highly decorated Green Berets from the Vietnam War. He didn't work as a team. His job was to operate as a lone wolf. Searching for & removing Vietcong leaders wherever they could be found. His survival skills are immense. His reaction to attack is lethal.
Green Berets are made & used by the US Government. That's Col. Trautman's entry for this show. Col. Trautman comes out to do damage control on one of the army's rampaging beasts according to the Sheriff. You get to make up your own mind on why Trautman's there though. A strong Vietnam era statement was made by this movie. I remember the talk on the street afterwards. The storyline in the movie is so well handled. I hear stuff like "I read the book & its not like the movie". So- this is a movie review. The plot is good even if there is 6 books or no book.
The acting in this show is what put it up for 5 stars from me. Stallone plays the brooding, physically dominant, pool of deep anger that is somehow bewildered & almost innocent so well. Brian Dennehy & Jack Starrett as a Sheriff office tag team are unequalled. Richard Crenna who was a last second replacement plays the role of the Devil's henchman as he did in Body Heat. He was a great late arrival. You even get a part out of David Caruso who is a lot more famous now. Bill McKinney as the State Police Capt. had little to do here but performed well in what he was given to do.
5 STARS for a 1982 film!
Summary of First Blood (Special Edition) [VHS]
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. --Keith SimantonAction & Adventure VHS Video
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