First Blood: reviews

What the critics say average 7.3 from 5 outlets

• 8.0 EmpireSam Smith There's the fact that 'First Blood' is a first-rate, taught action thriller.
• 8.0 The Washington PostRita Kempley Stallone is feral this film, physically powerful; he's muddy and bloody. He's the wild child coming home. 'First Blood' is good to the last drop, if you like that sort of thing
• 7.5 Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert 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. Read
• 7.0 New York TimesJanet Maslin It's a film with a number of strengths, not the least of them its fierce, agile, hollow-eyed hero. Read
• 6.0 El PaísDiego Galán The movie makes the protagonist into a new hero, which is why he doesn't die, although in the excellent original novel his defeat was precisely the message Read