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how good a time it was
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how much it moved you
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Read from 37 comments (32 from Metacritic, 5 from TMDB reviews) — 8 of them described how it moves.
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“And the ending - still one of the most powerful speeches in cinema, Stallone is absolutely brilliant in there.”
badshaped · Metacritic ↗
“THAT ENDING WAS SO MOVING”
Ratohnhaketon · Metacritic ↗
“THE ACTION WAS LEGIT HOLY ****”
Ratohnhaketon · Metacritic ↗
“it's the final scene that actually makes the movie for me, ultimately recontextualizing the preceding 90 minutes of violence and bloodshed in a newer, more tender light.”
Compi24 · Metacritic ↗
“the heart of this movie lies in its last few moments”
Compi24 · Metacritic ↗
“he gets a great scene to cook in at the end which was worth the wait”
royalguy07 · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 62% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“There's the fact that First Blood is a first-rate, taught action thriller.”
Adam Smith, Empire · 80
“First Blood is not the Rambo movie we initially think of when the character is mentioned. No, it’s much better than that.”
Eric Frederiksen, IGN · 80
“Stallone is feral this film, physically powerful; he's muddy and bloody, but he's still pretty even in a tarpaulin. He's the wild child coming home. First Blood is good to the last drop, if you like that sort of thing. [22 Oct 1982, p.17]”
Rita Kempley, Washington Post · 80
“Until the last twenty or thirty minutes, however, First Blood is a very good movie, well-paced, and well-acted not only by Stallone (who invests an unlikely character with great authority) but also by Crenna and Brian Dennehy, as the police chief.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 75
“Boasting some of the best use of rugged landscape since the westerns of Anthony Mann, First Blood is an effective, if outlandish, picture that exists merely for its big-screen thrills.”
Staff (Not Credited), TV Guide Magazine · 75
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“And the ending - still one of the most powerful speeches in cinema, Stallone is absolutely brilliant in there.”
badshapedabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“THAT ENDING WAS SO MOVING”
Ratohnhaketonabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“THE ACTION WAS LEGIT HOLY ****”
Ratohnhaketonabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“it's the final scene that actually makes the movie for me, ultimately recontextualizing the preceding 90 minutes of violence and bloodshed in a newer, more tender light.”
Compi24about 75–100% inread it ↗
“**_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 B”
Wuchakread it ↗
“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 as well.”
GenerationofSwineread it ↗
“"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 perspective. The fact it's able, with seeming ease, to marry up its thoughtful ba”
MovieGuysread it ↗
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