First Blood
Back in 1982, Sylvester Stallone was on a huge run in the race against Arnold Schwarzenegger to become the number one action star and in just that year alone, audiences saw the release of Rocky III and the dawn of the Rambo action franchise with First Blood . But the latter didn't begin as the guns-blazing action hero that audiences would come to associate the character with and is instead a much more sombre action drama of sorts. Stallone plays John Rambo, a Vietnam war veteran in search of an old comrade during a very bleak and chilly season in the state of Washington. However, his presence attracts the attention of a local sheriff who doesn't take kindly to drifters in this small town and so a war begins. First Blood is directed by Ted Kotcheff, who wouldn't return to the franchise, and is based on a novel of the same name. That novel had quite a definitive ending but the film makes some changes and so the door was left open for sequels to follow, which probably plea...
