First Blood

First Blood was shot using Panavision cameras on 35mm film. This release was made using the original camera negative which was scanned at 4K resolution and utilised for the creation of this Ultra HD Blu-ray...

Unfortunately, the disc has not been up-graded to the immersive surround tracks, so no Dolby Atmos or DTS-X, what we do have is the same DTS-HD MA 5.1 track that adorns previous releases. It is a reasonably...

UHDAudio commentary – With Sylvester Stallone who talks about the character, his initial reluctance and many other aspects of the production. Audio commentary – With screenwriter David Morell, the creator...

I don't think you understand. I didn't come to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him After the glut of anti-Vietnam war films during the seventies, Mr John J. Rambo esquire, Vietnam...

Before the ‘action hero’ became the Action Hero!, there was Rambo, a sympathetic, misguided and reluctant veteran, who had no place to turn to except what he knew: war. Mistreatment at the hands of enthusiastic...

First Blood is presented on 4K UHD courtesy of Lionsgate Films with a 2160p transfer in 2.35:1. Kind of interestingly and for the first time in my personal reviewing career of Lionsgate products, both...

The 4K UHD presentation features a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix which for all intents and purposes sounds at least similar to the surround tracks Marty described in his First Blood Blu-ray review. The lossless...

I joked in a now fairly long ago review of a Lionsgate 4K UHD release that I had surmised that an office lackey or two had a big dartboard in some hidden basement hovel where they would throw projectiles...

John Rambo remains one of Sylvester Stallone's most memorable characters, but it turns out that hindsight is not always 20/20, since most people probably think of Rambo as an unadulterated hero, while...

For those who perhaps only remember the slightly "revisionist" (in terms of the original Rambo character formulation) second and third Rambo films, it can be almost a bit of a shock to see the character...

A squad of trigger-happy weekend warriors charge Ultra HD with a stunningly gorgeously HEVC H.265 encode, which was struck from a brand-new 4K remaster and full restoration of the original camera negatives...

Although the classic action thriller strolls into town with what seems like a new DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack, it does not reveal a significant, night-and-day difference from the matrixed DTS-HD...

Many of the supplements are ported over from previous home video releases, but as far as I can tell, it's the first time they are all offered together on the Blu-ray format. And to further entice fans...

(Written by Peter Bracke for his review of the original Blu-ray.)I had avoided seeing First Blood until [some] years ago, largely because I made the mistake of seeing Rambo III first, and then Rambo II....

Responsible for catapulting Sylvester Stallone into action stardom and turning the name Rambo into a cultural icon since its original theatrical run, First Blood remains a fascinating motion picture with...