Stallone’s first outing as John Rambo is a lean, 90 minute thriller that skewered the American heartland’s uneasy relationship with Vietnam vets.

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With all the excess that followed in the later sequels, it’s easy to forget how good Stallone’s first outing as John Rambo is - a lean, 90 minute thriller that skewered the American heartland’s uneasy relationship with Vietnam vets.

Sly stars as Rambo - a former Green Beret haunted by his time serving in Vietnam who clashes with a local police. When John escapes to the forest the sheriff is determined to go after him, but as Rambo’s former commanding officer warns them, if they do that they’ll need one thing: “a good supply of body bags”...

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