Written by James M. Tate / 12/23/2015 / No comments / action , david caruso , franchise , martin kove , michael talbott , richard crenna , sequel , sylvester stallone , war
SYLVESTER STALLONE IN FIRST BLOOD & RAMBO
Reviews of both FIRST BLOOD and RAMBO |
Once Just A Book |
Foreign Posters Rule |
One of the few flaws of FIRST BLOOD is that Stallone's hair needed to be much longer for all the trouble he gets for having it. Looking like a construction worker who missed one haircut appointment, it should have resembled, say, John Lennon on the ABBEY ROAD cover for it to be made such a fuss about... His scruffy shagginess causes the narrow-minded cops to look down and underrate him, especially Jack Starrett's gritty second-in-charge, Galt, who actually refers to Rambo as "Hairy" while those previously mentioned flashbacks of being captured in Vietnam could have very well been glimpses into the future... That being, 1985...
Could be for either film |
Sequel Poster |
But jolting electric torture and being surrounded by lethal locals, who are really controlled by that era's primary villain, the Russians, aren't enough to stop our title character. Despite the audience knowing he's completely unstoppable, there are still suspenseful obstacles to cover in order to survive, making this vehicle stretch beyond the literally explosive comic book yarn it's known to be. And Johnny almost has a love-interest in the beautiful Julia Nickson, providing not just eye-candy while reminding us that maverick loners, in order to remain that way, are hardly ever lucky at love.
Doomed Starlet |
FIRST BLOOD: ****1/2
RAMBO FIRST BLOOD II: ***1/2
REVIEWS OF RAMBO III and IV
TRIVIA AND BOOK SPOILERS: In the FIRST BLOOD novel, David Morrell, who based the name Rambo on a brand of apples his wife brought home from the supermarket, pretty much created an anti-war monster who buys the farm at the end. And David was the man who was hired to write the novelization to RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD II where he explains, almost apologetically, in the introduction that he killed the character who's being resurrected. And in the original novel, Dennehy's Teasle isn't so lucky either. Instead of being bullet-riddled and severely injured, he buys the farm via Trautman's gun seconds after Teasle kills Rambo.
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