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First Blood
1982
· Movie
· 93 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #990
- IMDb #687
- Google retired #1057
- Rotten Tomatoes #975
- Metacritic #1513
- Letterboxd #911
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1494
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #983
- Metacritic Critics #2390
- Metacritic Audience #396
- Criticker #949
- Douban #425
- Kinopoisk #457
- AlloCiné #1117
- Trakt #615
Every rating
58–90
out of 100
A highly decorated but disillusioned Vietnam veteran travels to a small town to visit an old friend. He is met with hostility and abuse by the local sheriff’s department. Their brutal treatment triggers his combat instincts, leading him to flee into the surrounding woods and wage a one-man war against the deputies pursuing him.
Details
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Writers
- Michael Kozoll, Sylvester Stallone, William Sackheim
- Based on
- First Blood by David Morrell
- Studio
- Carolco Pictures, Anabasis, Elcajo Productions
- Released
- 22 October 1982
- Country
- United States, Netherlands Antilles
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $125.2M
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Awards
1 win & 4 nominations total
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